Or maybe he read Carter’s report?

IIRC, Shanks nailed some long-winded nonsense in an early episode, and RDA told him he’d fucked up. ‘Now they know you can do that.’

RDA had a rule of thumb: any line in the script longer than his thumb, he forgot.

Shanks and Tapping were especially annoyed by this because all their lengthy explanations were the first things to get cut for time.

Never seemed to be an issue for Christopher Judge.