07-23-2022, 02:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-23-2022, 03:00 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
The key people on each team would be Spock, Scott and Uhura. Kirk and the redshirts could have been more or less interchangeable, especially if they were all from the part of United Earth that used to be the USA. Their roles would be to protect the technically adept person searching the data for McCoy and obtain the necessary resources to support the search, and if they found McCoy while he was still drug-affected, provide muscle needed to subdue him. Kirk would be the one to go with Spock because they have the most experience as a team. Plus, it's a morale thing that the captain be the first to take the plunge when there's no practical reason why he shouldn't, and if the first team had not returned instantly, having the remaining landing party members watching their captain sitting around as helpless as they were could have been a huge downer.