Illegal Order?
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Chef responsibilities include studying recipes, setting up menus and preparing high-quality dishes. A chef should be able to delegate tasks to kitchen staff to ensure meals are prepared in a „timely manner“.
Asking Neelix to become the Chef on the Enterprise-G would be regarded as a promotion…
Blowing the turbolift with Shaw and Vadic in it would essentially be asking Seven to kill her Captain.
Surely there would be questions asked if an F-18 were to shoot down a crowded airliner that had been hijacked.
Since her own Captain was the one giving that order and there were legitimate security concerns at the time, it is considered a legal order.
You do realize exactly that happened on 9/11, right?
I'm sure there's precedent in Star Trek for a captured officer being exhibited by his hostage-taker ordering the crew to not give in and fight the enemy even if it'll kill him.
Who was the pilot? Where did it come from?
Colonel Marc Sasseville and Lieutenant Heather Penney were scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base in unarmed F-16s to stop Flight 93 by ramming the plane once it got close to Washington. The passengers forced it down themselves before it got to them.
It's been established since TOS that it's perfectly legal for command level officers to not only kill themselves, but everyone on the ship, in the form of the auto-destruct sequence, to prevent the ship being used for enemy purposes.
I have long suspected that, in-universe, Picard is blamed not for his deeds as Locutus but that he didn't kill himself before being used as a weapon.
Strangely enough despite the overuse of the auto destruct sequence in Trek, the option to use it is not even mentioned when Vadic was hijacking the Titan. That exact scenario is precisely what the auto destruct sequence is for, AND by killing themselves and Jack, the Frontier Day catastrophe now would've been prevented (or at least delayed hopefully long enough for the transporter sabotage to be discovered)
I have long suspected that, in-universe, Picard is blamed not for his deeds as Locutus but that he didn't kill himself before being used as a weapon.
Strangely enough despite the overuse of the auto destruct sequence in Trek, the option to use it is not even mentioned when Vadic was hijacking the Titan. That exact scenario is precisely what the auto destruct sequence is for, AND by killing themselves and Jack, the Frontier Day catastrophe now would've been prevented (or at least delayed hopefully long enough for the transporter sabotage to be discovered)
Eh? He was ambushed, abducted and assimilated right of the bridge. What was he supposed to do, preemptively commit suicide the minute he learned the Borg had taken an interest in him specifically?
No one said it was rational. Part of working through trauma is accepting that bad shit happens and it is not necessarily anyone's fault.
Shaw was a damaged war vet with severe PTSD. He was a dangerous wildcard and he panicked telling Seven to blow the turbolift.
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