#captain lucero

[defconprime]

Captain Lucero from Star Trek Timelines, 2020.

[lovednotrusted]

so Edward just... dies? he’s killed by tribbles? that’s honestly such a bad way to die poor guy

[sophiaforevs]

The trouble with The Trouble with Edward is that people see it as a literal account of what happens.  True, that’s what most other episodes are, but this one is specifically the account of Captain Lynne Lucero who royally fucked up her first command and was trying to blame it on the one fatality who coincidentally no one liked.  The episode ends telling you as much: she’s giving her report on the incident and everything she says is specifically geared towards shifting the blame to the person who can’t defend himself and who was so unliked by his crew that no one would come to his aid.

Look at the events of the episode:

Did Edward Larkin go around talking shit behind her back, or was that said to discredit his character?

Did Edward submit the anonymous complaint or did he just get blamed for it?

Did Edward really mix his own DNA with the Tribble or was that just a rumor that was started on the ship that she passed on to make him look worse to the investigation committee?

Tribbles don’t reproduce so fast they act like raising waters to drown people.  This is evidence that someone is heavily exaggerating events.

It’s an entire episode done with an unreliable narrator. Edward might’ve made mistakes but Captain Lucero was the Captain who’s first instinct to deal with an unruly crewman was to have him transferred.  Not to figure out how to work with him, not to figure out how to make her entire team work better, to just remove him from her sight.