When will Burnham get her rank back?
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They are obviously setting up Lorca to be the villain, and Burnham to take a stand against him. Basically, for Burnham to be the next Captain. I think I'll drop the show at that point.
id prefer to see saru as captain. i already find it impossible to believe she would so easily get any rank let alone a captainship.
I think it might happen slower than that. She might move up in rank each season.End of the season, Burnham will be captain and Saru first officer.
End of the season, Burnham will be captain and Saru first officer.
The only way that happens is if Saru voluntarily steps aside to let her take the chair, and that is never happening.
The problem with "mutiny" is - like pretty much anything else -it isn't necessarily the blanket crime pop culture treats it as.
Outside of extreme circumstances, two things have to be established for the convening authority to treat it as a capital crime: conspiracy and malicious intent.
Burnham's plot was neither of those things. What she did was really more of a 'leaven years in Tenworth' sort of deal.
Outside of extreme circumstances, two things have to be established for the convening authority to treat it as a capital crime: conspiracy and malicious intent.
Burnham's plot was neither of those things. What she did was really more of a 'leaven years in Tenworth' sort of deal.
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I think Lorca will make her conviction "go away" somehow. I wonder if she would have to start with a brand new commission as ensign and work her way back up.
And by any current military code, what Burnham did was by definition not actually mutiny, since she was acting alone and not conspiring with anybody else. But apparently definitions will have changed in the next couple of centuries (the word was even used in this sense in TOS; see "The Menagerie").
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And by any current military code, what Burnham did was by definition not actually mutiny, since she was acting alone and not conspiring with anybody else. But apparently definitions will have changed in the next couple of centuries (the word was even used in this sense in TOS; see "The Menagerie").
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Saru will have to take the stand against Lorca... where he learns what Michael had to do.
Actually, that's exactly how I think it'll go.End of the season, Burnham will be captain and Saru first officer.
After yesterday's isode, she is a bridge office: science specialist. Is that a position with no rank associated with it?
Assuming Lorca goes on medical leave, Saru is acting captain. Why would he think of making Burnham part of the chain of command?
Assuming Lorca goes on medical leave, Saru is acting captain. Why would he think of making Burnham part of the chain of command?
End of the season, Burnham will be captain and Saru first officer.
I think I'm rather expecting this too. However, perhaps they'll surprise us and not be so predictable. After all, if they do it, it's a little too much like Kelvinverse Kirk getting command of the Enterprise.
and it would go against the lower decks feel they wanted with the main character not being the captain.
Maybe with the Klingon's true nature being revealed to Starfleet, they will come to realize that Burnham's "mutany" in the interest of saving her captain and her ship, was not so out of line after all, and had her captain followed her initial advice, they would have fared much better. Such a realization, in spite of her mutany under a formal definition, coupled with her subsequent good and extraordinary service, plus Sarek pulling some strings, may get her rank restored and her life prison term reversed.
It dosen't have a particular rank to go with it. I think Seven in Voyager was a science specialist and held no rank.
Being a science specialist doesn't place Burnham in the chain of command.
Burnham will eventually become a ship's first officer again. Under Captain Tilly. The captain owns her a few favors and decided it was a good idea to let the 60+ year old officer have a go at her old job in the wake of the whole Transwarp/Great Experiment problem and her brother dying and coming back to life thing. The even drag an old Crossfield-class starship out and start fitting her out in Spacedock during those incidents for Captain Tilly.
All that really needs to happen is for the writers to craft a compelling redemption story in the next nine episodes. Then she can be captain. I want her to be captain, but without a lot of work, it can't happen convincingly. What would she do if someone under her command committed mutiny?
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