I'd love to see Seruk gone any day now. Remember he was the guy who put a PP cost on ka'Sharren, which implies he was going to kick up a stink at the Council level. And we got mad at Linderly for being insubordinate!
I have come to interpret it as it being Seruk
trying to warn us about a political problem that would in large part come from other directions. Such as all the cranky councillors we spent 5 pp/year to assuage ganging up on us. Such as some of Nash's actual
fans and supporters arguing that she's being unfairly held back for promotion give that the other two Explorer Corps captains of her year both have responsible high-profile commands.
It just plain isn't normal for the same officer to command the same ship for fifteen years. We shouldn't expect that to go down easily.
Plus the whole WMD and all out open warfare.
And their affiliation with the Spoonheads.
I'm reminded of a omake by
@Simon_Jester that basically sums up the
Orion issue at the moment. We need to actually move on the Hypercorps in addition to the Syndicate, because otherwise, we'll be dealing with this in 20 more years.
[Looks down at self]
[Looks over at Leila]
[self]
[Leila]
...I thiiink you may want to edit this post.
Yeah, but that happened long after we started our anti-syndicate actions. They where helping the Spoonheads kill our goverment-officials before we got started with the whole anti-slavery taskforce stuff. I think that was what triggered it?
The proximate cause of the Anti-Slavery Act of 2309 (which started our campaign against the Syndicate
in force) was the crippling of the
Courageous and presumed death of Captain Ajam, after her ship struck a mine while investigating evidence that the Syndicate was responsible for selling the Cardassians the cloaking device they used on the
Kadak-Tor.
The Syndicate certainly wasn't LIKED after we blamed them for the attack on the Amarki ratification ceremony (which we have reason to think was actually a Cardassian op that used the Syndicate as the fall
guys girls). But we didn't go all out Space Iraq counter-insurgency on them until the
Courageous incident.
All the more reason to start the Kadeshi reverse-engineering project.
Part of the Crew, Part of the Ship. Forever!
Enterprise:
[frowns]
"I
love Nash, I miss her terribly even though Sam's doing absolutely great. But seriously, that is just creepy. Stop. Just stop. Crew are for loving, not for being commingled with. Captains, likewise."
That's some shitty cost benefit analysis. Starting a war with a great power is a very, very large cost. Cardassia can't have offered them nearly enough money for that to be worth it.
The Syndicate wasn't expecting the Federation to 'go to war' with them over the Amarkia incident, as indeed we did not.
I would be stunned if Seruk did not have influence on the Council, but I seriously doubt he was the proximate cause of Nash's PP issue. Nash's career was unorthodox enough that the Council probably noticed her antics on a regular basis.
We know they did, because Nash cost us 5pp a year every year she sat in the captain's chair.
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