Is being a pretty 15-19 year old the primary prerequisite?

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    2 days ago

    I’m hesitant to give the Section 31 writers this much credit, but a recurring theme from Star Trek (especially since TNG), is the notion that people are a product of the cultures they come from, and asks the question of if they can grow beyond it.

    This move showed us that Terran empire causes suffering for everyone, even for the top leaders. The system is working for nobody and yet they are all stuck within it. The system of abusing children to choose a new leader seems engineered to make sure that nobody can escape.

    Georgiou, somehow, escaped. And now she’s (in her own words) “a monster with a conscious (ie: useless)” in a system that has no need for monsters. She felt useless to change the empire, and useless to do anything once she found it no longer surrounding her.

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      That sidesteps the question of why all of these comically evil people are okay with using this arbitrary contest to determine succession, instead of the usual route of organically murdering each other until someone emerges who is good enough at disposing of potential assassins that they keep the throne for a while?

      I didn’t watch the movie, so I’m probably missing something. Did Georgiou also have to deal with a bunch of normal assassination plots after officially gaining the throne? Or are we to assume that by virtue of winning this contest, she is widely seen as too dangerous for anyone to attempt to usurp?

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        2 days ago

        I think mirror Burnham and Lorka tried to depose her way back in Disco S1, but maybe I am misremembering.

        I’m hung up on how utterly ridiculous the succession was portrayed.

        I like Star Trek and I’m trying to find the silver lining here, but I just come up empty handed.