From: john@localhost.net   
      
   On 11/28/2020 01:11 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:   
      
   > Presumably you would prefer her "mirror" alter-ego!   
   >   
      
     It's not a preference.  It's a matter of leadership.  Those laws were   
   written long before I was born.  Education, training, emotional   
   stability, and intelligence are but the starting ingredients. Over time,   
   those can evolve into experience, maturity, confidence, and wisdom. All   
   needed for leadership.   
      
   I think it's a lack of understanding on the part of the writers.  I've   
   seen other signs that they tend to see things only from the narrow   
   viewpoint of someone in the entertainment industry. There were instances   
     where they seem to think command is nothing more than an 'acting' job   
   one performs in front of the crew.  And they regularly misinterpret   
   intelligence as education/training, or worse: 'general competence' in   
   all things. Perhaps in addition to science advisers, they should have   
   some military advisers as well.   
      
   Even in today's Navy, there is no way an Ensign who was a Cadet a year   
   ago, gets to be XO of a cruiser class ship.  A PT boat maybe, but not a   
   ship the size of Discovery.   
      
   Of course, I could be wrong and the writers see all this.  It could all   
   be a prelude to the court-martial of Saru, over his gross incompetence.   
   With Burnham's record, she should never have made XO.  Now Tilly.  Seems   
   like Saru has a long way to go as well.   
      
   I realize the writers are striving for a 'maverick type' like Kirk, in   
   the character of Burnham; but they are going overboard with it. Kirk   
   bucked authority and made calculated risks; and had an excellent sense   
   of intuition.  Burnham, on the other hand, is just reckless.  Perhaps   
   this is known to the writers as well.  Recklessness as an emotional   
   rebound from the years of rigid Vulcan training.  So she must come to   
   grips with herself as a human.  That emotional instability should have   
   been detected by starfleet medical, and treated.  You don't give an   
   unstable person command over others - ref 'Doomsday Machine' and   
   Commodore Decker.   
      
   my $0.02   
   -J   
      
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