KIRK: Gentlemen, this computer has an auditory sensor. It can, in effect, hear sounds. By installing a booster, we can increase that capability on the order of one to the fourth power.
SPOCK: Captain, one to the fourth power is one.
KIRK: I'm on trial here, Mr. Spock!
Today in Labor History December 11, 1917: Thirteen black soldiers were hanged for alleged participation in the Houston Mutiny. The cause of the mutiny, according to The Crisis Magazine, was the habitual brutality of white police officers toward black residents. The mutiny started on August 23, 1917, when a cop dragged an African American woman from her home and arrested her for drunkenness. A black soldier asked what was going on and was beaten and arrested, too. When Cpl. Charles Baltimore, an MP, found out, he went to the police station to investigate. He was beaten, too, then shot at as they chased him away. Rumors reached the military base that the cops had killed Baltimore and that a white mob was approaching. So, soldiers armed themselves and marched into town. A riot ensued in which 16 whites died, including 5 cops. 4 black soldiers also died. The army held three courts-martial in the wake of the mutiny. They found 110 African American soldiers guilty. 19 were executed in total, 13 on December 11. 63 more received life sentences in federal prison. No white civilians were brought to trial.
Uh oh, Kirk got his uniform torn off of his shoulder again for the millionth time! #CourtMartial #TOS #StarTrek
I like the TOS episode Court Martial, but the “almost nobody could fake that video” plot point doesn’t hold up in the age of AI.
#startrek #allstartrek #tos #CourtMartial
Naval warship's crew officers had secret #ElonMusk satellite 
#wifi gadget installed to #StreamMovies and access verboten #internet comms at sea, unbeknownst to top commanders.
They spent $2,800 for a ship mounted #Starlink Kit plus added WiFi extenders with a personal #subscription plan and started billing fellow ranking officers either $62.50 a month or a one-time fee of $375 — that the ship’s Chief #PettyOfficer Association treasurer collected. The secret subscription service was only offered to #RankingOfficers and run by a senior enlisted leader of the ship’s gold crew, Command Senior Chief Grisel Marrero. As rumors and many denials of the secret satellite service spread, investigation eventually resulted in a stripping of her senior top 4% rank, and more than halving her pay after a #Navy #CourtMartial.
Percy Rodrigues (who plays Portmaster Stone in this episode) was the narrator voice in the trailers and ads for the movie Jaws (the original).
#AllStarTrek @allstartrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #CourtMartial
What the bloody hell has Kirk gotten himself into now?
#AllStarTrek @allstartrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #CourtMartial
And then the court suspends him for 12 Months!!!
"The Court finds the prisoner Guilty of the 1st specification of the additional charge, but Not Guilty of the 2d specification, and are of the opinion his conduct is unofficerlike_ and sentence him to be suspended from all rank, pay and emolument, for the space of twelve months. But the Court have no hesitation in acquitting the prisoner of all fraudulent intentions, in detaining the pay of his men. "
#Guilty
#CourtMartial
#WinfieldScott
It was a mixed result, but he was guilty of some of it...
"Sentence.
The Court, after mature deliberation on the testimony adduced, find the prisoner, Captain W. Scott, Guilty of the 1st Specification of the 1st Charge, and pronounce his conduct unofficerlike."
"In saying between the 1st of December and 1st of January, 1809_10 at a public table in Washington, that he never saw but two traitors General Wilkinson and Burr, and that General Wilkinson was a liar and a scoundrel."
#CourtMartial
#WinfieldScott
#AaronBurr
#history
#CitizenArchivist
#AllStarTrek
Uplifted enlightened humans got uplifted enlightened ambition and uplifted enligtened resentment.
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