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Yeah, there's been a good deal of support for doing that.I think we should consider refitting Explorer Corp Excelsiors one at a time to fill some of the open berths. More so in years when we would need to select multiple Captains.
Sulu was once identified by Sousa as being one of her "best political operators" among the Vice Admrials alongside Shey ch'Tharvasse.
Hm. I think maybe Sulu is actually the kind of guy who does his best work when he has a boss to tell him "no, this is going one step too far, you'll break the system if you try this."Good point. From Sousa's POV, what Sulu does looks like and probably is excellent politics.
Notice that of the Enterprise command team, he was the only one of the established officers to completely lose the plot when the polywater infection knocked out their inhibitions in The Naked Time. Spock was cracking up, Kirk was cracking up, but Sulu? Brandishing a sword and storming the bridge.
Fast forward to his TBG days, and it's clear from the dialogue that he vetted his idea about seeking Klingon reinforcements for Kadesh with Starfleet Command ahead of time. Those wild and wooly Explorer Corps operations he got up to in collaboration with Starfleet Intelligence? He was pushing it; he could have got in serious trouble had they been revealed to the public, or if something had happened to Enterprise like what happened to Courageous a few years later. He was at least a little lucky there. And his idea about assembling a Sixth Fleet out of the anti-Syndicate task force during the Kadak-Tor incident? That was an example of him going a bit too far, and Kahurangi had to yank on his chain.
However, Sulu is extremely creative, talented, and effective, as well as being kind of erratic. That combination makes him a marvelous subordinate when he's being tasked with carrying out some specific duty, because he'll use all his brilliance to achieve the duty as well as could be expected. Since he's got buckets of charisma, that includes tasks like "Persuade Councilor Smith of the wisdom of getting a starbase built in the Zabriska system" or whatever.
Thing is... that's actually more like Diplomacy than it is like Politics. It's more about Sulu using his personal charisma to persuade an independent entity of something, and less about Sulu working well within a power structure.
We will counter mad science with Vol Chad's broforce?Briefvoice said:
The penalty is that one of our affiliates is now at war, a war that could trigger major collateral damage. Maybe a 'success' on that event would have been something like 'Licori peacefully accede to a reasonable set of demands by the Gaeni, and we have a foundation for negotiating an end to the war with the Ked Paddah too because the Licori are now at least open to the idea of restraining their mentats from causing any more cosmic catastrophes."Given that we didn't take any real penalties and how extreme the situation was that might have been a basic success.