<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=47183.msg2251452#msg2251452">Quote from: Jack Stalker on 20-09-2009, 02:48:27</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">In Your Opinion  :P<br/><br/>I saw it quite differently... with disaster looming <strong>the best man for the job was dispatched!</strong> O:)</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>That's the pride I was speaking of.  :P  He's, what, 34?  He's an Admiral where most would be Commanders or Captains.  Not to mention, all those years he spent getting the necessary education and experience for being an officer (a NAVAL officer, at that!) were being spent by professional engineers learning how to, well, engineer.<br/><br/>Then there's the fact that he started off as Army before he even joined the Navy, which means he had to have trained in the ground forces, in the space forces, and then take the years of intense training and education required to command ships; and all this time Raglan spent on becoming an Admiral, men and women were getting dedicated training and experience repairing starships.  They could probably fix the problem with the neutrino cushioners with their eyes closed before Raglan could even pick up an engineering book, and yet he thought he was the best one for the job?<br/><br/>If that ain't hubris, I may as well go jump off a skyscraper.