06-16-2022, 10:49 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-16-2022, 04:44 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
Of course Starfleet would know, they'd be the ones tasked with sneaking Hedford in and out. What I was imagining was something like Kissinger's secret trips to Paris to negotiate with North Vietnam, or Sadat and Begin secretly meeting in the US for the Camp David accords. The leaders of the hostile parties wouldn't want their people - possibly including some factions of their own governments - to know they had agreed to negotiate until they were ready to declare peace. And if they weren't Federation planets, they might not have wanted anyone to know that a third party had been brought in to help accomplish what they could not do themselves. So I imagine the shuttle dropping Hedford off and picking her up in some isolated location with nobody but her showing their faces at all. Another reason why Kirk, Spock and McCoy shouldn't have been the ones doing it. In real life, this sort of thing would probably have been done with an unmarked civilian transport (and a pilot not wearing any uniform), but they wouldn't have had to budget to create one.
I expect the Companion was at first totally confused about why Cochrane needed other humans when he had her, and then even more confused when he was told what she was and rejected her. Not sure if you could call that jealousy. She was also clearly ticked off at Kirk and Spock making attempts to interfere with her. But it didn't seem to me that she paid much attention to Hedford at all until she got the idea to merge with the dying human.
I expect the Companion was at first totally confused about why Cochrane needed other humans when he had her, and then even more confused when he was told what she was and rejected her. Not sure if you could call that jealousy. She was also clearly ticked off at Kirk and Spock making attempts to interfere with her. But it didn't seem to me that she paid much attention to Hedford at all until she got the idea to merge with the dying human.