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Have you assholes never heard of Chain of Command?!?!
(startrek.website)
Thanks to @JordanLaFordan over on Mastodon for shooting this over to me. Far too accurate.
My favorite part of that plot was how Starfleet somehow doesn't care that he genetically modified himself to gain superpowers, but multiple other people almost get the boot for something their parents did.
To be fair, said superpowers weren't the kind of thing that would make him a viable supersoldier or unstoppable terrorist like Kahn.
Admiral: About this Stamets guy, can we review the footage of his illegal genetic modification powers?
:: watches video log of Stamets taking Discovery through shroom-space ::
Admiral: Ow, fuck, that looks incredibly painful. These mods are only good for this one task? And he can only do it with that machine, from that room, on that specific ship? And he's okay with doing this to himself every time?! Yeah, we're good.
It does help if you're the only one who can successfully operate top secret technology.
"You broke the most important law! Oh, but it's useful? Carry on."
Art imitates life.
They did it with Bashir too.
One might even say... context is for kings?
I figured getting their asses handed to them by the klingons helped.