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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5148918" data-attributes="member: 8158">The entire episode in question was about Young being investigated for murder through some approximation of due process. When Young found out Rush framed him, he had the option to bring Rush's actions to light for judgment by the community. He also could have exercised his own authority. Rather, he tried to murder Rush and then lied to cover it up. Bad move. It's easy to view Young's actions as petty, as Wray does.Oh, by no means is this as bad as, say, Voyager, where the Maquis crew members weren't there to present an alternate point of view so much as they were there to gradually admit that the Star Fleet way (and the Janeway way) is invariably the right way. This show's certainly much more subtle than that. But from a metafictional perspective, the victories are consistently being handed to the soldiers.I dunno, DB, that sounds like the textbook definition of a thug to me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I would say Greer is not loyal to the military--he is awaiting a court-martial, after all--but rather loyal to any individual that he perceives as deserving his loyalty. Greer is like a vicious dog. If Young were to show excessive weakness or rebuke him severely, then Greer would likely turn apostate. The moment that really made me most wary of the military's unilateral control was when Young was on trial and Greer announced that they should march in with their guns cocked and tell everybody that the game's over and to get back to work. This episode, Greer's inclination was realized, as he essentially sent the civilians to their rooms like naughty children. That infantilizing regard for civilians is pretty offensive.</blockquote>

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