Quote:Drak, you may have to re-write the scene then if that's the case. By naval tradition, the person in the chair IS the captain. Not even Natarllie would go against that. I grant you the CIC is the best place to fight the ship, but that would be the XO's job.
Basically, there were only a limited number of available crew on the Black Pearl - only a small number were willing to commit outright treason of this nature. As a result, there aren't enough people to staff all the bridge postions. Natarle is running the ship from CIC and Thomas is sitting in the big chair and giving general orders because he's the one with the plan. Natarle's still the captain and once they've a few more crew will go back to sitting up front with Thomas returning to the Archangel.
If you want to resolve this issue, have a scene where Natarlie offers command of the "Black Pearl" to Thomas. That makes Thomas the CO for this operation.
Like having Doctor Beverly Crusher take control of the Enterprise.
Now, as to staging a mutiny...it might be only a small number of people..but if it's well-placed people then it can be easily done.
If Natarlie had come to the conclusion earlier that she's working for slimeballs who doesn't earn her respect and finds like minded people among the senior crew....you may have the beginnings of a cabal. Remeber, if you're the captain, you have access to all the ship's systems. 'sides, the idea of a captain hijacking a ship is ludricrous.
Think of it as contingency planning....if the place and oppurtunity comes along to break away from the alliance...
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