Can't help but think that if Zoltar can truly create earthquakes at will, it would be even more terrifying and damaging to do it in a region of the world where they normally never occur, not a region that has building codes and other precautions in place because they're unfortunately prevalent.
Is he, by any chance, bluffing? Or borrowing Lex Luthor's evil scheme from the first Superman movie?
Originally posted by lborgia88
Heh, we need more scenes of Zark being told off!
Can't help but think that if Zoltar can truly create earthquakes at will, it would be even more terrifying and damaging to do it in a region of the world where they normally never occur, not a region that has building codes and other precautions in place because they're unfortunately prevalent.
Is he, by any chance, bluffing? Or borrowing Lex Luthor's evil scheme from the first Superman movie?
Yeah, look how us east coasters reacted to a little shaking.
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I think that "Chief" is an "NCO" rank, like Sergeant, in most military systems whereas "Captain" is not -but who knows what type of system they're using in the BOTP-verse?
But I like the idea of Jason ending up the cause of a demotion for Anderson ("But President Kane, I ordered him not to fire any missiles at those Spectran assassin squads infiltrating Federation headquarters until it was confirmed that you'd been evacuated -really I did!") :-)
Originally posted by lborgia88
I think that "Chief" is an "NCO" rank, like Sergeant, in most military systems whereas "Captain" is not -but who knows what type of system they're using in the BOTP-verse?
That's true. In the military (mostly Navy, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marines {I think}) Chief is an NCO rank similar to Sergeant.
However, Chief is an officer rank in civilian organizations such as Police and Fire Departments. Using this, it could hypothesize that G-Force and Galaxy Security are non-military, civilian defense organizations.
Technically that is what G-Force is supposed to be. Galaxy Security isn't a police force... they're simply defending against enemy attacks. I can only think of one episode where G-Force took an offensive move where Spectra did not act first (The one where Jason gets dizzy and falls out of the Whirlwind Pyramid... Strike at Spectra?). There are other military planes and tanks and such that we see, but all Galaxy Security seems to have is G-Force.
Okay, here's another part from the same story. Zoltar is using rockets to cause the earthquakes. And because he's causing earthquakes, his secret base is... underground. Yep. Very safe, isn't it?
Check out 'Captain Anderson' in the first panel (in background). And the Luminous One has an interesting appearance as well!
Chief Petty Officer is an enlisted rank. The highest ranking is Master Chief Petty Officer. It's been a while since I was in the service, but I recall it takes some doing to move from enlisted to officer.
(To put it in Star Trek terms: Ensign Wesley Crusher outranked Chief Miles O'Brien -- a man old enough to be his father. In a regular navy, O'Brien would have to salute Wesley and call him 'sir.')
Maybe the BotP people were thinking of the unnamed 'Chief' of CONTROL on Get Smart when they created the Anderson character.
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I tend to think of Galaxy Security as a military organization, or at least more military than the ISO in Gatchaman. I think they make a preemptive strike on Spectra in the first part of Curse of the Cuttlefish too. And isn't there some sort of military installation on the planet Aquatica too -in the ep with the dragon mecha?
But I'm probably just inclined to see "military" -there really isn't anything specifically stated in BOTP that I can recall, other than Mark having the title "Commander." Anderson doesn't wear a uniform, after all.
IIRC, in BOTP, the military forces all belonged to the planets, rather than to the Federation as a whole. G-Force seemed to be the only group fighting for the entire Federation... of course, now I wonder if I'm remembering correctly. I certainly play loose with this in my fanfics.
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