IM$O, she is not getting any high rank soon. Maybe Captain later in the series
When will Burnham get her rank back?
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Roe Laren was a mutineer and she becomes captain of DS9 in the Litverse.
In The novels
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So far Burnhum is my least favorite character.
Actually I like her character a lot. She's supposed to be a emotionless Vulcan. She's had to adapt to the foreign concept of human emotions. Unless Spock, she's tried to embrace her emotions. But she's still very stilted. With each episode you can see her opening up though. So I think her character is being played just right.
I also find her character interesting because it is through her story that we learn Sarek and Spock's backstories.
Here is another highly speculative thought. Burnham makes Captain at the same time as Pike is promoted. Spock has to make a decision whether to stay on the Enterprise or join Butnhsm's crew, maybe as First Officer?
Plot twist, Spock was first officer of the Discovery for several years before returning to the Enterprise under Kirk
e.g., Spock in The Menagerie
Spock was never convicted though. Of course that was only the case because Kirk, and the Commodore decided to look the other way.
While I think it'd be more interesting if Saru became captain and picked Burnham as his first officer (assuming Burnham has a save-the-universe moment and a bonding with Saru), more likely by season 1's end, Burnham will be cap and Saru first officer.
I saw a theory somewhere, I think FB, that the Lorca we've been seeing is the Mirror Lorca and eventually the Prime Lorca will return and take command. THAT would take a lot of explaining but could be very interesting. Who knows!
I saw a theory somewhere, I think FB, that the Lorca we've been seeing is the Mirror Lorca and eventually the Prime Lorca will return and take command. THAT would take a lot of explaining but could be very interesting. Who knows!
He still committed mutiny and Starfleet let him off the hook. Whether someone is convicted or not of a crime, special storytelling circumstances have gotten characters off the hook before. See also: Ro Laren, Sito Jaxa, and Tom Paris (not all these folks were mutineers, but they did commit "throw you out of Starfleet and/or in jail offenses").
Technically he was never court marshaled or charged. <--- That (and Commodore Mendez in the shuttle with Kirk and on the 1701 were all an illusion by the Talosians The only thing Starfleet has on record RE: the incident:
My point above, simply stated, is that Starfleet has a history of leniency if the storytelling circumstances are right. Whether it makes "sense" or not is a different question than whether there's precedent in Trek for it (which there is).
The question is if Starfleet ever officially took note of Spock's actions? With Michael, Saru probably personally dragged her to the JAG office. Tom Paris is kinda explainable with the whole 70 years from home thing. Ro Lauren is a stretch.
There was a Commodore in the room. According to the letter of the law, regardless of Spock's good intentions, the Commodore ought to have been like, "Well that's nice of you," and then hauled Spock back to Starfleet for court martial. But he didn't. They let it slide. And that's really the point. Starfleet lets things go. Like all the time.
As the CBS Plant pointed out, the Commodore was an illusion as well. I had also forgotten that bit in the years since I have last seen The Menagerie.
That's true and a good point. But Mendez was at Starbase 11 and was aware of the Enterprise's incursion into Talos IV space and gave authorization to allow it, and mentions that Starfleet won't press charges against Spock. Starfleet brass was aware of Spock's mutiny.
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