To be fair, she's a pretty low-tier character, listed among the "co-star" credits which means she's not really a priority for story material. As it is, season 1 already gave Detmer more material than her status requires.
Actually, I think the Mirror Universe storyline is probably the most talkative Detmer gets.
In all seriousness, there was no logic to who got medals. It's basically "if you're a speaking character, you get a medal." So what about the crew who don't get lines, or even seen? No medals for them? Ariam the Cyborg got a medal and all she does is sit on the bridge and make whirring noises.
You're not wrong. It's possible I suppose that everyone on the ship got a medal but they had a separate ceremony for non-bridge crew. Otherwise, the medals should have just gone to the people who were directly involved in the action. Maybe the logic there was that the bridge crew was more involved in the heroic acts than the people who weren't on the bridge. It does tend to be where big things happen, after all.
Except, Stamets and Tilly aren't bridge officers and they got medals. Culber even got posthumous medals at that very ceremony, and I don't think we ever saw him on the bridge. It literally was a speaking character recognition only. A crew of 130 just saved the Federation from war and Earth from being conquered. So ten random people get medals directly from the Federation Council, including one guy who's been dead for the past month or whatever, and the other 120 are ignored.
To be fair, Stamets and Tilly were still directly involved in the events that ended the war. Stamets got the ship to Q'onoS, and Tilly was with the away team. I still generally agree with you though.
Not everyone...
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I like what she has to say about the character. I think that if more of the background characters on the bridge are given a chance to grow and participate in the stories, the show will benefit.
Not everyone...
