Star Trek 2 should have led to a court-martial

Charge I — Dereliction in the Performance of Duties

SPECIFICATION 1In that ADMIRAL JAMES T. KIRK, then holding the rank of Captain and in command of the USS ENTERPRISE, did, approximately fifteen (15) years prior to the events herein, transport and release seventy-two (72) or more persons of augmented genetic origin, together with the vessel SS BOTANY BAY, onto the surface of the planet Ceti Alpha V; did undertake in the presence of witnesses to monitor the condition and progress of said colony; and did thereafter, through neglect, fail to conduct any monitoring visit, transmit any inquiry, or authorize any survey of said colony for a period of fifteen (15) years.

SPECIFICATION 2In that the accused did fail to ensure that the establishment of the aforesaid penal colony was entered into the standing navigational hazard advisories, with the result that the USS RELIANT (NCC-1864) was assigned to survey the Ceti Alpha system without notice of the colony’s existence, and that the destruction of the planet Ceti Alpha VI went undetected by any Federation authority for a period of approximately fifteen (15) years.

Note to the convening authority: the Board may wish to determine whether Specification 2 properly lies against the accused or against the Bureau of Navigation. The Bureau has been asked and has not replied.

Charge II — Failure to Obey a Lawful General Order

SPECIFICATIONIn that the accused did, on or about stardate 8130, aboard the USS ENTERPRISE, having observed the approach of the USS RELIANT under circumstances in which communications had not been established, and having been advised of the terms of General Order 12 by LIEUTENANT SAAVIK in the hearing of the bridge watch, fail to raise defensive shields as required by said order; and did further instruct the said Lieutenant to defer the matter.

Charge III — Negligent Hazarding of a Vessel and of Personnel

SPECIFICATION 1In that the accused did assume operational command of a vessel assigned to training duties, crewed principally by cadets not qualified for combat operations, and did direct said vessel toward a situation of known hostility without requesting reassignment of a ship of the line or the augmentation of her crew.

SPECIFICATION 2In that the accused did, by the failure charged in Charge II, permit the USS ENTERPRISE to be fired upon while unshielded, resulting in the deaths of cadets and enlisted personnel whose names are appended at Enclosure (1), and in major damage to the vessel.

Enclosure (1) is attached. The Board is advised that Enclosure (1) runs to four pages.

Charge IV — Negligence Resulting in the Loss of Classified Materiel; Hazarding of Personnel; and Failure to Secure a Compromised Party

SPECIFICATION 1In that ADMIRAL JAMES T. KIRK did, aboard Regula I Space Laboratory, receive from CAPTAIN CLARK TERRELL and COMMANDER PAVEL CHEKOV a direct report that both officers had been subjected to neurological implantation by a hostile party for the purpose of inducing susceptibility to suggestion; and did thereafter fail to secure said officers, fail to disarm said officers, and fail to place any member of his party on watch over them.

SPECIFICATION 2In that the accused did fail to order a medical examination of the said officers, notwithstanding the presence at his side of the Chief Medical Officer of the USS ENTERPRISE, the said officer being then equipped with a portable diagnostic scanner, and notwithstanding that the examination required is of approximately five (5) seconds’ duration.

SPECIFICATION 3In that the accused did fail to return the said officers to the USS ENTERPRISE for treatment and isolation, notwithstanding that the transporter apparatus at which he then stood was in working order; that the USS ENTERPRISE was then at station-keeping within a few hundred metres of his position; and that no fewer than three (3) further means of transfer, including shuttlecraft, were available to him; and did further fail to avail himself of the medical facilities of Regula I Space Laboratory, being aboard the said station at the time, the said facilities being adequate to the support of a resident scientific complement and requiring no transport of any kind.

SPECIFICATION 4In that the accused did receive, credit, and act upon the account given by the said officers of the deaths of the scientific complement of Regula I, notwithstanding that both officers had by their own statement been rendered susceptible to the suggestion of the hostile party, and did seek no corroboration of an account furnished to him by two witnesses he knew to be under enemy influence.

SPECIFICATION 5In that the accused did fail to transmit notice of the said compromise to the USS ENTERPRISE, to the surviving personnel of the GENESIS project, or to any other party, with the result that no person subsequently placed at risk was on notice of the hazard.

SPECIFICATION 6In that the accused did determine to transport into the interior of the planetoid Regula upon the sole evidence of destination coordinates retained in the memory of the station transporter, no confirmation having been obtained that any prior party had survived the transit, nor that the destination volume was other than solid rock; and did commit to said transit his own person, the Chief Medical Officer of the USS ENTERPRISE, a junior officer then under instruction, and the two compromised officers aforesaid, being the whole of his party, retaining no reserve, posting no armed escort, and leaving no person aboard the station to report the party’s fate.

SPECIFICATION 7In that the accused did thereby transport the said compromised officers, in company and armed, to the concealed location of the GENESIS device within the said planetoid, being the most closely held classified materiel then in the custody of Starfleet; and did thereby occasion the seizure of said device by the hostile party, together with the death of CAPTAIN CLARK TERRELL, whom the accused had had every opportunity to remove from the operational environment and did not.

The Office of the Judge Advocate General notes for the Board that the hostile party did not board the planetoid, did not force the chamber, and expended no ordnance in the acquisition of the GENESIS device. The device was carried to within a few metres of his instruments by the accused.

Charge V — Failure to Report

SPECIFICATIONIn that the accused, having obtained knowledge that the GENESIS device had been seized by KHAN NOONIEN SINGH, a person under sentence of exile for offenses committed during the Eugenics Wars, did fail to transmit notification of said seizure to Starfleet Command, to any Starbase, or to any Federation authority whatsoever; and did instead pursue the recovery of said device as an independent action.

Charge VI — Unauthorized Alteration of a Celestial Body

SPECIFICATIONIn that the accused did permit the detonation of the GENESIS device within the Mutara Nebula, resulting in the reorganization of the matter of said nebula into a Class M planet of unknown composition and indeterminate stability, situated in a region for which no survey, claim, or protectorate status exists; and did thereafter depart the region without securing the said planet, posting warning, or requesting the assignment of a science vessel.

The Office of the Judge Advocate General notes that no form presently exists for the reporting of an unscheduled planet. Bureau of Standards has been consulted.

Charge VII — Conduct Prejudicial to Good Order and Discipline

SPECIFICATION 1In that the accused did knowingly receive and consume a quantity of Romulan ale, a proscribed substance, at San Francisco, on or about the date of his birthday.

SPECIFICATION 2In that the accused did, in the presence of a cadet under instruction, characterize his own reprogramming of the KOBAYASHI MARU command evaluation as a solution rather than as an irregularity, and did accept commendation for the same.