Yep. Which is what the Klingons wanted. Really, the Federation played right in to their hands.
Let's talk about the elephant in the room, this series violates Roddenberry's vision big time
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Well she did everything she could to provoke it. She's the first to kill a Klingon, in a situation caused only by her complete disregard for orders. Then she decides the best course of action is to attack Klingon ships on sight, and demands from her captain to do that. When the captain refuses to attack an alien race the Federation is not at war with, Michael attacks the captain, hijacks the ship and almost does a first strike. All for nothing, because it's too late (luckily for Michael, as this way the audience has reason to believe she didn't actually start the war).
Yep and she was quite determined to keep it going.
A act of self-defense. The Klingon ship was in federation space, a Starfleet officer investigated the intruding/trespassing ship, that officer was attacked.
The Klingons were going to attack anyway. Tacoma outlined his master plan while Michael and Georgiou were drawing arrowheads in the sand.
I blame the Vulcans.
This is so often the correct course.
And the killing of the Klingon was a freak accident, as she meant to tackle him in defense, not have the bat'leth pierce his body.
Either way, the Klingons made the first move. It's ironic given that everything would have played out exactly as it did even if Burnham was not there. But because she attempted a mutiny, Starfleet ultimately used her as a scapegoat. The only real thing she could be blamed for was convincing her captain into an away mission that ultimately got her killed.
They're just Fremen with pointy ears.
The only thing she could be blamed for was the mutiny, following her advice (after the mutiny) was the sole responsibility of the ship's Captain.
Burnham's lawyer should have used the radiation exposure as a mitigating factor for the mutiny, Burnham probably waved a lawyer.
This point cannot be overstated.
Yep, it's pretty clear that Burnham had little interest in defending herself. She was out to punish herself for the death of her captain.
Pretty interesting...I had not considered it from these angles. Nice series of posts...!
To be honest, even if she had defended herself, I'm not sure she had much of a fair chance anyway. The officers on her tribunal kept themselves hidden in shadows. That in no way suggests a fair trial.
I still think that was intended as her POV, not reality. They were in shadows because the whole thing, to her, was (rightfully) predetermined and she was too much in a fog to pay attention to anything beyond 'guilty'.
Silly Starfleet getting all bent out of shape with that whole mutiny thing
What was there to defend? She attacked her Captain, took command, and wanted to fire first. She is sitting pretty now having gotten away with everything.
Huh? She's still convicted of the crimes. Everyone is aware of her crimes. She's still a rankless "specialist" . So what exactly has she gotten way with?
Er... serving her term.
