[An Old Marine]

Why go back to the Enterprise, when you can be with that hottie.

While I understand that this conversation was meant to be frivolous and funny it still is revealing. These guys have no concept of responsibility, duty, or honor. They would be more concerned with sexual bliss than the fact that Pike was the Captain of a warship.

But then what do you expect from a crowd of ancient hippies and their stoned out progeny.

[Flux Capacitor]

----While I understand that this conversation was meant to be frivolous and funny it still is revealing. These guys have no concept of responsibility, duty, or honor.----

Man, no kidding. The themes of responsibility, duty, and honor, the question of "what maketh a man?", were at the very core of "The Cage", and yet the only thing these snickering jackasses get out of the episode is "man, I'd abandon my ship and crew to get some from the hot chick on Talos!" Not coincidentally, this notion of pursuing personal gain at the expense of the people one has served with exactly sums up John Kerry's career.

-Dan

[steve-b]

While I understand that this conversation was meant to be frivolous and funny it still is revealing. These guys have no concept of responsibility, duty, or honor.

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.