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Una's longterm future.

Or they give her a second stringer Pioneer class ship fill it with a bunch of other augment adjacent crews they don't like and send them off to do unimportant planetary survey's in deep deeeeep space where they never have to hear about equal treatment complaints ever again.

This plan will then back fire so badly that Una's ship will be immortalized in the starfleet museum as we see with the USS Pioneer in Picard.

I love this idea. A lot.
 
Since her only appearance in TOS was in The Cage / The Menagerie, her fate is what the show-runners make it. She may fade into obscurity, she may get her own command, she may be killed or lost on an assignment. Keep tuning in.

Ahh yes, Captain Bashir, Captain O'Brien, Captain Sisko. We may not have enough troops or ships or weapons, but we have plenty of captains.

That said, Spock, Scotty, Sulu were Captains (maybe having a name starting with S is good -- Stamets should be well set), McCoy presumably was - or at least bypassed Captain - to get to Admiral. In Prodigy, Chuckles was Captain.

Geordi presumably got to Captain on his way to Commodore, Worf got Captain. Troi and Crusher presumably left at Commander, but Crusher was reinstated as Admiral. Tuvok and Seven made Captain
 
Here's my theory: Since Lieutenant Commander Una Chin-Riley is an Illyrian she will never be promoted to captain. I think at the end of the series she will leave Starfleet and return to her people, maybe engaging in space exploration with them.

Thoughts?
I honestly think she dies. She 'sooo Starfleet' I can't imagine her resigning or retiring early. That would explain why we never see her/hear any real mention of her in later 23c TV/Feature Film situations. (And it must have been a HORRIBLE death fpor no one to talk about it. :shrug:;))
 
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I honestly think she dies. She 'sooo Starfleet' I can't imagine her resigning or retiring early. That would explain why we never see her/here any real mention of her in later 23c TV/Feature Film situations. (And it must have been a HORRIBLE death fpor no one to talk about it. :shrug:;))

Dark!

Well, if they do kill her off, hopefully they don't do her as dirty as they did Tasha Yar.
 
In the DC comics back in the 80s they had a heavy piece of cargo fall on Una's back and crippled her.

https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Number_One?so=search

In 2264, Pike was promoted fleet captain with Number One agreed to remain behind and continue as first officer under James T. Kirk. Days before the change-of-command ceremony, however, Number One had an accident in the ship's cargo hold, where a cargo container fell onto her and crushed both her legs. Though she received prompt medical treatment from Dr. Phillip Boyce, but her long recovery meant that she couldn't serve as Kirk's first officer, the post being given to Spock. (TOS comic: "All Those Years Ago...")
 
In the DC comics back in the 80s they had a heavy piece of cargo fall on Una's back and crippled her.

https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Number_One?so=search

In 2264, Pike was promoted fleet captain with Number One agreed to remain behind and continue as first officer under James T. Kirk. Days before the change-of-command ceremony, however, Number One had an accident in the ship's cargo hold, where a cargo container fell onto her and crushed both her legs. Though she received prompt medical treatment from Dr. Phillip Boyce, but her long recovery meant that she couldn't serve as Kirk's first officer, the post being given to Spock. (TOS comic: "All Those Years Ago...")
Which in retrospect was kind of a strange choice, since Pike was also crippled in an accident. I wonder if Mike W. Barr was trying for a conscious parallel or if it just didn't occur to him.
 
In the first DC Comics' Star Trek Annual, "All Those Years Ago", Number One is crushed under heavy machinery as Kirk is taking over command from Pike, leaving Spock to step up as First Officer while she convalesces.

Drat. Already discussed.

Which in retrospect was kind of a strange choice, since Pike was also crippled in an accident. I wonder if Mike W. Barr was trying for a conscious parallel or if it just didn't occur to him.

Definitely a deliberate narrative parallel.

I honestly think she dies. She 'sooo Starfleet' I can't imagine her resigning or retiring early.

In the original draft of "A Flag Full of Stars", one of "The Lost Years" novels, she is Admiral Timothea Rogers, sitting beside Robert April, to commentate on a celebration of NASA.
 
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She dies in a heroic act that prevents all-out war with the Gorn in the final season.
 
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