• gustofwind@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Well now we’re talking about a mutiny and I don’t see why the officers would side with a CMO committing mutiny, if anything they’d almost certainly side with the captain. We would need an elaborate plot to substantiate the CMO successfully rallying star fleet officers to commit a mutiny.

    The captain can simply relieve the CMO for cause, promote another medical officer, and that would be that.

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      20 hours ago

      I mean that “the CMO illegitimately declaring officers medically unfit” is, in all reality, just mutiny if the end goal is to take command. And like any mutiny, the success of that ploy depends on enough of the crew choosing to back the ploy.

      The captain can simply relieve the CMO for cause, promote another medical officer, and that would be that.

      At that point, it still comes down to who the crew sides with. If they think the “real” CMO is in the right, then they will not recognize the “new” CMO as legitimate, and back up the “real” CMO’s decision to relieve the captain of duty. If they instead believe that the “real” CMO is not in the right, they will recognize the authority of the “new” CMO and not consider the captain to be relieved of duty.

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      21 hours ago

      Well now we’re talking about a mutiny and I don’t see why the officers would side with a CMO committing mutiny, if anything they’d almost certainly side with the captain.

      i don’t think you understand what mutiny is. it is a situation where the mutineers do not side with the captain 😂 and it can happen for like infinite number of reasons.

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          21 hours ago

          yes, that is true for absolute majority of officers in absolute majority of crews, both real and imaginary.

          the mutiny happens when there is enough mutineers to take control. if there is not enough of them, then there is no mutiny.

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            21 hours ago

            Just also quote the part where I said we’d need an elaborate plot to have the CMO create a mutiny that officers go along with. Then there wouldn’t be any confusion

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                20 hours ago

                Sure except this is Star Fleet, which is science fiction, so we have every reason to assume that a mutiny would only occur for good reason, like when Kirk was possessed. An evil CMO trying to illegitimately seize power would indeed require an elaborate plot.

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            20 hours ago

            The word “mutiny” just means that an insurrection took place; it does not imply success or failure. A 1-person mutiny is still a mutiny, even if the odds of success are minimal.