2007-12-04
16. Cocktails
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2007-12-04
16. Cocktails
Wheel is slouching in the window of the captain’s office-cum-lounge, which commands a view of the warp nacells and some other ships in the convoy.
Not sure of the canonicity of a cocktail bar in the Captain’s lounge on a starship, given that you don’t really want the captain found drunk in charge of a warp drive and phasers, and in real-world submarines, American boats are ‘dry’. On the other hand we have the precedent of Pike having a Martini in ‘The Menagerie’ and Kirk a Finagle’s Folly in ‘The Ultimate Computer’.
The idea I was trying to convey here (not very well) is that to Captain Zhou, Pike’s being American is as notable without being exceptional as Checkov’s being Russian is to Kirk.