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Starship Roles Arranged by Authority (quokk.au)
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https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/435:_Purity

Stick figures standing along the horizontal axis of a chart, lined up based on authority. The individuals are labeled civilian, cadet, ensign, lieutenant, captain, and chief medical officer. The captain says "It's nice to be on top", and the chief medical officer says "Oh, hey, I didn't see you guys all the way over there"
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[–] 1 point 10 months ago (6 children)

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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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

    Sure, but the point is that not all of the officers are necessarily mutineers themselves.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    not really much elaboration needed. you just need the crew to be pissed at the captain, that is quite a simple plot. mutinies have happened in the past, they are not a science fiction.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mutinies

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months 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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