Prospect Michael Burnham: Diplomacy Skills?

Uebermind

Why does Prospect Michael Burnham have diplomacy skills when she spurns a handshake from Captain Georgiou, and condescends to her coldly and pompously with: "Respect is earned. As is friendliness." I've seen better diplomatic instincts from Nausicaans.

Astrometrics

Yeah.

And why does Laas have science.

And why Lorca diplomacy instead of security.

And why bla bla bla the list is really long.

But more importantly, why does Shinzon have any skill despite being the worse idiot to ever lead the Romulan Star Empire? By any internal consistency he should have 0/0/0 skill ratings.

GhostStalker

Lorca earned every bit of that Diplomacy skill, it takes effort to pretend to be civilized for that long.

[10F] Belle'Anna

Burnham should have had command. Early on in the show her diplomacy skills were about -873

S31

I hope that she could hold her breath longer than in a pilot episode because she is now airlocked!!!

Kaitee

Maybe she does get on great with Nausicaans?

Astrometrics wrote: »

But more importantly, why does Shinzon have any skill despite being the worse idiot to ever lead the Romulan Star Empire?

Repurposing an old joke - to be fair to Shinzon, he did kill Shinzon. (Maybe not the most direct route, but he sure went out of his way to make it happen.)

(HGH)Apollo

Uebermind wrote: »

Why does Prospect Michael Burnham have diplomacy skills when she spurns a handshake from Captain Georgiou, and condescends to her coldly and pompously with: "Respect is earned. As is friendliness." I've seen better diplomatic instincts from Nausicaans.

Burnham was raised Vulcan. By Vulcan standards she was downright friendly.