Star Trek General Discussion

[The Predaking]

How many people would you recognize from Seal Team Six?

This is one of those situations where people (like the creators of Lower Decks) forget that in-universe characters are not the audience. There are no "famous bridge officers." Dr. McCoy is famous in the medical community, but something tells me these cops haven't read any of his papers on comparative xenobiology or adaptational retroviral pathology. They don't have access to the (mostly still-classified) official logs of the Enterprise's five year mission, and probably wouldn't care if they did; they have jobs of their own to do.

These aren't eager young Academy students nerding out over their career heroes, or well-travelled starship officers or diplomats; they're cops who've probably never even left Earth except for a three-day vacation to Risa.

I get the angle that you are going for, but he is still literally an admiral to this enlisted man. Also, Kirk's tenure on the Constitution class was very well known to the public, especially someone that joins Starfleet. The Constitution class is literally the poster boy for Star fleet ships, mostly due to Kirk and the Enterprise.

The guards may have seen news footage of Admiral Kirk after the V'Ger Incident (which would be the only "saved the Federation" event they'd know about), and they may have been told that their prisoner served with Kirk back when he was a captain, but they have no way of knowing that the short Asian guy is part of Kirk's crew; they think he's just some message-runner from Starfleet Command here to summon the Admiral.

Well Sulu does show them his ID papers, which should let them know that he is a Lt Commander, if not Commander at this point. (I honestly don't know if they say but considering that he is a captain in a few years on a high ranking ship, I would assume he is a commander now. ) Then the guard literally tries to intimidate a senior officer for no reason.

 

[Agent X]

They're supposed to be jerks. How would we, the audience, react to the heroes of the story beating up good, respectful Starfleet officers who treat the crew with admiration (and some generous fanboying) the crew earned.

Or those jerk can be retconned into Section 31 stooges, or something.