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   From: no_offline_contact@example.com   
      
   On 2019-02-28 4:11 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > BTR1701   wrote:   
   >> I'm still wondering why Burnham is the only crewmember whose uniform has   
   >> silver piping when everyone else's is gold.   
   >   
   > It's a warning flag:  "If this crewman disagrees with your orders,   
   > she will Vulcan Nerve-Pinch you and do what she darn well pleases   
   > while you're unconscious."   
   >   
   > As to why such a person would be trusted to be on a starship in   
   > any capacity ... I have no clue.  Perhaps they explained it at   
   > some point, but I don't get that CBS special pay TV thing.   
   > I tried to think up something that might approach a logical   
   > explanation for why Star Fleet would consider her worth the   
   > risk, or even let her out of prison, and came up empty.   
   >   
   I was watching some YouTube videos about Discovery and several former   
   sailors and soldiers commented that if anyone had been as reluctant to   
   follow orders as Burnham has been, it would have gone very VERY badly   
   for them.   
      
   I wonder if the Racist Eye has been inspired by the way various flavours   
   of Marxists, anarchists and other radicals undermined the (Tsarist)   
   Russian Army during WWI? The war was not going well for Russia and there   
   were a lot of radicals among the troops, trying to convince their peers   
   that they shouldn't fight unless they all agreed and damn the officers   
   giving orders.   
      
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