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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x02 "Ad Astra Per Aspera" (startrek.website)
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LoglineCommander Una Chin-Riley faces court-martial along with possible imprisonment and dishonorable dismissal from Starfleet, and her defense is in the hands of a lawyer who’s also a childhood friend with whom she had a terrible falling out.

Written by Dana Horgan

Directed by Valerie Weiss

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[–] [S] 16 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Surprised that they never got Pike to the stand, especially after Una confessing that she told Pike 4 months ago.

I think Pasalk was pretty out of line with his approach - his questioning essentially amounted to a criminal investigation of someone else. My knowledge of law isn't very strong, but that seems inappropriate.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You generally can't make people incriminate themselves, and upping a charge from fraud to conspiracy would be exactly that. That is, in a court run by laws instead of TV logic she could've remained silent.

    ...unless there's some special sauce in US law that says "once you take the stand" or something, dunno I don't speak common law and Trek can't help itself but assume US law but it definitely doesn't look kosher.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    In the US, wouldn't she be able to plead the 5th?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    TNG's "The Drumhead" shows us that Federation law (or at least Starfleet Military Code of Justice) includes a similar right. Crewman Simon Tarses invokes the Seventh Guarantee when asked about his Romulan heritage.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's definitely possible that the Seventh Guarantee wasn't part of the Code of Justice until after this incident, too. Maybe there's a push for it after the United Federation of Planets v. Una Chin-Riley ruling because of the conduct of Pasalk.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I couldn't help but wonder whether they're setting him up as a badmiral or it was just Chekov's gun from the Vulcan brawl. If the latter, they did a lousy job of tying them together ... I was going with option A while watching and only considered B afterward.

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