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Commander Una Chin-Riley faces court-martial along with possible imprisonment and dishonorable dismissal from Starfleet, and her defense is in the hands of a lawyer who’s also a childhood friend with whom she had a terrible falling out.


Written by Dana Horgan

Directed by Valerie Weiss

  • Value SubtractedOPM
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    171 year ago

    They kept the tradition alive by having a starship captain handle the prosecution, though.

    • @maegul@startrek.website
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      171 year ago

      But in contrast, this lawyer (Neera) won by mainly by being a good lawyer (albeit in a tv legal drama kind of way). Setting things on fire with the first witness to create a bunch of fog and doubt about the premise of the case, realising that other important regulations impinge on the case and setting up testimony to substantiate the effect of those regulations.

      My memory of most other officer-lawyers is that their methods tend to focus more on the moral “issyew” (Picard’s pronunciation of “issue” in Measure of a Man).

      • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        “issyew”

        /ˈɪsjuː/ is very common in RP. You hear it all the time in parliament.

        • @maegul@startrek.website
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          51 year ago

          Oh yea I know. In the context of TNG though, where everyone else has US accents, Picard’s Britishness goes up to eleven on that word.