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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 7252306" data-attributes="member: 3887">We -- the audience -- know she was in the brig. What does that have to do with the public version of the story? We can see from everyone else's reaction the official story is highly unfavorable to Burnham.That the popular, publicly-known version of events differ from the actual truth? Since you won't be watching more of Discovery, might I recommend Ken Burn's recent Vietnam documentary?That's her *reputation*. It may not, in fact, be strictly, literally true (I mean, truly fictionally true).  Modern criminals like Cyrano Jones and Harcourt Fenton Mudd III? Also, the TOS-era Federation is a bit less uniformly utopic than TNG-era and beyond. Note the importance of the new space-grain the tribbles used as Tribble Chow.  That was put in the specific context of needing dilithium miners as part of the war effort, wasn't it? Besides, Federation rehabilitation wasn't all it was cracked up to be; cf. "The Dagger of the Mind", "Whom Gods Destroy".  Angry Tory Foster was not a nice person. But really, completely in-line with TOS-era characters. Or real people, for that matter. Well the proximate reason was they blamed Burhman for the war. And, no one was stopping them... Lorca was testing Burnham. That's made explicit by the end of the episode. Saru feels betrayed by a friend, or at least a colleague he once had a friendly rivalry & good working relationship with (note the ease of their interaction in the pilot). He's trying to be hurtful. Also, it is fair to say Burnham's trouble -- but so was JTK in his day...</blockquote>

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