There's only so much life experience someone can have at 21, regardless how hard their life has been. And at 21, no one is really qualified to be a warship captain with a crew of 130 (maybe more in the MU) under their command
Earths status in the MU?
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Not disagreeing, but it is Trek and the MU, real life and common sense left a long, long, long, time ago.
Simply killing your captain/department manager/PTA president isn't enough. In Mirror, Mirror, when Chekov tries to assassinate Kirk he says that by killing the captain everyone moved up in rank. He didn't seem to be looking to be captain. There may be some sort of protocol that determines who gets to be captain upon their death.
People might fall in line because Killy is ruthless and has been assassinating her way up the chain of command.
People might fall in line because Killy is ruthless and has been assassinating her way up the chain of command.
She could have started on a smaller ship as well. Killed her way to a good rank, then moved to a larger ship, killed her way up and so on.
Even if we entertain for the moment that she was XO when she killed the Disco Captain and ascended to the Captaincy herself, at her young age what she do, spend a few months or so at each rank before assassinating her way upwards?
Murder seems to be the most useful life skill for a commanding officer in the MU.
"How To Succeed In Business Without Really Dying" It really killed on BroadwayI'd think that if the guy working in the mailroom for a company on MU Earth wants to someday move up to a management position, he might need to kill the current manager above him to do so. Or if a parent wants to be leader of their child's school PTA, they might first need to kill the current head of the PTA.
Or am I overthinking the whole "how to get ahead in the MU" thing?
If ENT is canon, The empire exists since before the first contact with aliens
We do know something about Tilly's background. Her previous post was at the Imperial Starfleet Academy and she earned medals for Valor, for being a Master of Poisons, and for having killed fifty or more people. She is not as bloody as mu Michael Burnham, who killed a hundred or more people and got an award for it.
How do you prove you are a Master of Poisons? Are they given a test?
How do you prove you are a Master of Poisons? Are they given a test?
I loved the now sadly obsolete idea from the old DC comics, that the divergence was Earth losing the Romulan war and being occupied for a decade. Earth rose up and vowed never to be conquered again.
Also, I bet MU Earth has The Purge.
Also, I bet MU Earth has The Purge.
Yes, administered by Professor Snape.
Its likely peaceful in the way North Korea or Stalin's USSR, I doubt the Empire has any sort of human or civil rights protections, we see on the star ships that torture and executions are common, often for the slightest infractions. The same is likely true of Earth, where even the slightest hint of dissent would be met with torture and executions. I think the Terran Empire is up there is the Dominion in terms of the worst regimes in Star Trek lore and ''peaceful'' is meaningless living in a society with a government that can kill you at a whim.
No.
ENT actually is what makes me think MU Earth wasn't that unified prior to first contact, though. Seemed like it just recently went through World War III too.
Who says she's 21? Mary Wiseman is 32, we have no idea what Tilly did before joining starfleet or when she entered the academy.
If she's 32 like Wiseman Tilly could easily have been an officer for 12 years in the mirror universe. If she was talented and ruthless she could have made it to captain by 28, giving her 4 years in the center seat and time for achievements as a captain.
So, after looking over Memory Alpha's page on Mirror Tilly it turns out her previous assignment before becoming Captain of Discovery was serving at the Academy, meaning she really did jump from Cadet to Captain just by virtue of killing the Captain.
basically KelvinKirk's career then
I think I might have alluded to something like that earlier in the thread.
but that was hours ago...
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