" She noted: "For decades, the Federation taught that he was a hero.I guess time will judge us all." Kirk was somber: "He just got lost." Kirk was congratulated for saving the entire base.He was offered the position of Vice Admiral, but Kirk respectfully decided to remain in his role as a Captain ("Vice Admirals don""t fly, do they?.To cover his tracks, Gabriel ordered the killing of his own computer hackers in the mobile tractor-trailer rig.The Hitchcock-like suspenser was a convoluted, twisting courtroom drama-mystery adapted by Lawrence Marcus from Agatha Christie""s classic four-character short story "Traitor""s Hands," first printed in 1925 in the British magazineFlynn""s,and then published in the 1930s and 1940s in both the UK and US as "The Witness for the Prosecution.It won the most Academy Awards for any picture sinceGone With The Wind (1939).(Its other five nominations were: Best Actor (Montgomery Clift and Burt Lancaster, who split the votes), Best Actress (Deborah Kerr), Best Scoring, and Best B/W Costume Design.