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Pretty clearly inspired by Dr. Bashir from Deep Space Nine, only a century or so early.
That Sousa's augmentation doesn't extend to "superior ability breeds superior ambition" levels? Sousa was good at getting promoted; we know she hit captain at an age comparable to that of Kirk.Sousa apparently made Vice Admiral at something like 45 years old (she was on sabbatical at 50 when the game began, and not part of Roger's inner circle, as evidenced by her being a candidate for his replacement, so she probably made Vice Admiral either prior to his Admiralty or early on but then fell into dispute with him). If Chen, the next youngest person to make Vice Admiral (at 57) is an augment, what does that say about Sousa?
We see him with his plants in several TOS episodes, brandishing his sword in The Naked Time, and using his judo skills in Star Trek III ("And don't call me 'Tiny!' ") Don't know where the primitive firearms thing comes from- maybe he helped Kirk identify muskets during A Private Little War?By the way, the stuff about Sulu being a master of primitive firearms, swords, judo, and botany is all canon (according to Memory Alpha).
It would certainly explain how she ends up running Logistics. There are actually some advantages to the head of Logistics being a jerk as long as they follow orders and don't fail their duties.When I reviewed some of the old Biophage posts, I realized that T'Faer is actually a huge jerk who everybody only tolerates because she's brilliant and gets things done.
Well, of the vice admirals with roles in Starfleet Intelligence, we have... Linderley, Sotak, ch'Tharvasse, and maybe Sulu.There is a surprising amount of Starfleet Intel coming up through the ranks ... and Sulu is almost honorary SI.
The Deep State runs deep.
Linderley really shouldn't count because of course the vice admiral who runs Intelligence has an intelligence background; he's only on the list because we just happened to make Intelligence a vice admiral billet. That leaves about three out of nine other vice admirals who we're counting as SI or honorary SI.
I think that's just a function of Starfleet Intelligence being bureaucratically large; I wouldn't be surprised if it actually has a total number of staff and officers comparable to a significant fraction of the starfaring fleet, and probably larger than, say, Tactical.
Not disagreeing with any of your analysis. However, I will note regarding this last point that it seems likely that the Councilors for major colony planets (and for that matter the homeworld) also represent a large number of minor colonies in the same general vicinity, so "not from here" seems resultingly less likely to be as decisive as all that, I'd think.E: Like I said though, this is a lot of speculation since we don't know A) Sousa's political leanings, or B ) What seats are 'safe' or 'typical' Expansionist seats, C) What polling is saying, for parties at large and Sousa personally, D) How Expansionist or other party's internal structure looks like and how they select candidates, and E) How people in 2315 feel about 'parachute' candidates, in the event Sousa ran in New Seoul. There could be a strong norm among voters to choose 'local' candidates. It might be even stronger on colonies, where potential councilors may have literally built the place, versus some asshole outsider.
That said, I'd expect Sousa to show up after starting a second career in politics- that is, spending time devoting herself to it full time. Note how Rogers is getting back in the game roughly 15-20 years after stepping down from office, and after taking an intermediate step by running for mayor of a colony city that is viewed as a stepping-stone to the planetary Council seat. Sousa would have an easier road into political office because her name isn't mud, but she still might do something similar.