Not, from TOS, no. TNG and following, certainly. That's were the evolved humanity sensibility came from, including not mourning over death, or being in conflict with other humans. Which is part of why some writers struggled in the first couple of seasons of TNG. GR's box of humanity was difficult to create drama within.
I think Michael has been written to be interesting (she is the lead), not so sure it's working.
This is the whole stupidity of it all. Georgiou and Burnham were the aggressors, they went into enemy territory to do harm. To at the very least take away T'Kuvma's freedom. They were not the victims in this scenario. T'Kuvma actually was! He was defending himself from them. They took the war to someone who fought back and killed one of them. By the same token Burnham meant to kill T'Kuvma. At whatever stage she set her phaser to kill it doesn't matter, she wanted him dead.
Nope.
Nope indeed.
Why?
Because it was the Klingons, those under T'Kuvma's personal command no less, who had trespassed into Federation territory with the intent of deliberately provoking a war in the first place, a goal in which they had already succeeded by this point! How could you miss that?
How could anyone miss that it was Georgiou and Burnham who booby trapped the dead, beamed themselves amongst the enemy and tried to take one of them captive? They put themselves there. Burnham killed one of them. That scenario was of their making and from Burnham and Georgiou's aggression.
Did you really watch the show?
How did they instigate the Klingon aggression? T'Kumva was planning on attacking, no matter what. Countering the attack started by the Klingons is a proportionate response to their attack.
They went to the enemy, right? It was Klingon turf, the Sarcophagus is their Ship of the Dead. They were trying to capture T'Kuvma, it was a plan. Stupid plan but it was instigated by Georgiou and Burnham. We are still talking about Burnham killing T'Kuvma and how that went down. It was because she put herself in that situation.
The enemy was in their territory. If a German ship invaded USA waters during WW2 you can bet that any American boarding party is not going on there for a beer festival.
Yes, they were trying to capture an enemy leader and stop a full blown war from erupting, a war the Klingons wanted to happen. As Starfleet officers, Georgiou and Burnham had a duty to try and stop it.
Actually I meant the Sarcophagus, as that is where Burnham killed T'Kuvma.
No it was not Klingon turf. That was an enemy ship that had deliberately trespassed into Federation territory and taken overt hostile action which had already resulted directly in the destruction of the Europa and the inflicting of massive casualties, and had not retreated thereafter. It was a totally legitimate target of attack, whether with the goal of taking its commander captive or even simply inflicting reciprocal casualties. Even then, they only stunned the Klingons who didn't directly attack them once they were aboard. Burnham only killed T'Kuvma when he was in the process of killing Georgiou. If T'Kuvma had laid down his arms and surrendered, and then she killed him, that would have been a totally different story. He didn't. He was an an enemy combatant engaging in hostile action. A legitimate target.
The point is whether their actions were justifiable or not (booby trapping the dead... yeah, might leave that), it was their actions still. Their plan. They put themselves there and like it or not, they were the aggressors in that plan. They wanted to take the enemy and instead killed. I get it is war but why pretend that Georgiou and Burnham were not actively responsible for what they did.
T'Kuvma (enemy or not) was defending himself. Two Federation officers were on his ship trying to take him. What was he supposed to do? Of course he saw it as an attack.
And his actions were not provocative? What were Burnham and Georgiou supposed to do? It's not that they are not responsible for their actions but their actions were appropriate for the situation and justifiable in an act of war.
