Ride or Die: Defend Your Favorite "Bad" Episodes

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Of the roads to promotion, taking a standardized test with the resulting paperwork, reviewboard, commanding officer scrutiny, etc., whatever is needed, is an established pathway. Achieving great things in the field isn't as quantifiable as a standardized test.

Think of it as the difference between completing school by moving through the grades and acquiring an equivalency certificate, loosely (not a perfect analogy)

 

[Dropship]

I've just remembered another episode i feel uncomfortable with, it's the one where Picard is told to find out why a fellow starship captain (he played the warden in Shawshank) destroyed a (Cardassian?) freighter even though they weren't at war.
The captain's excuse was that he strongly suspected the ship was violating a treaty by transporting weapons to somewhere.
But to preserve the fragile peace, Picard washes his hands of the matter and doesn't look into it any further, and let's Star Fleet deal with him.
However, Picard admits at the end that the freighter was almost certainly carrying arms.
My beef is that Picard threw the captain under the bus rather than stand by him and investigate his claims..