Due to the mandate of Starfleet""s regulations, determined in a Starfleet Command tribunal headed by Admiral Alexander Marcus (Peter Weller), it was decided hat Kirk was to be relieved of his command of theUSS Enterprise: "They""ve taken the Enterprise away from you.He was even opposed by some who considered his daring and unconventional, rhythm & blues-oriented (rockabilly) music too sexually-arousing and similar to southern black music.Politely, he picks up her string-tied parcels, his second-in-command sidekick Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine) offers to carry them, and then Pike takes her arm o assist her across the street.Meanwhile, she summoned Myerson and made some vague excuses about leaving toward an unspecified destination to "someone who needs me terribly.The one that sent you down the road to Shitsburg.This? Well, this was mine." He told the Recruiter as he was wheeled in for surgery - strapped onto a stretcher: "Just promise you""ll do right by me.