#Brad glover skaven sky fleet series#

Most of the time, an individual who decides on Klingon Promotion probably does so with the backing of parties sponsoring his actions, thus protecting him from retaliation (leverage). However, no one will mind the killing of an officer who has failed too many times, as long as the killer knows what he is getting himself into now and everything that goes with it. Also, most don't take well to an unproven upstart killing a superior who has experience and the wisdom to rule effectively, especially when it threatens the status quo. In practical use, this is a dangerous gamble on the part of the killer, since if he kills a superior who has popular support, he will most likely be killed very quickly himself before he gets an opportunity to enjoy his new power. May result in You Are in Command Now if the replacement is lacking in qualifications for the position they gain and/or pulls off a Klingon Promotion by accident. Occasionally, a superior can forestall it with Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand.

The Evil Prince tends to see the world this way, due to his position. This trope tends to enforce its Super-Trope: Superior Successor.Īsskicking Equals Authority is when you get a society that works based on this trope. They could easily then be The Starscream, and if we get the chance to follow them going through several stations in life, advancing themselves with cunning, guile, and possibly the odd bottle of arsenic, we might get to see them as a Manipulative Bastard and maybe a magnificent one. Perhaps the focus will be on a character who uses this method often to get ahead in the world. Youll get it in royal or noble lines of succession where individuals can obsess over the fact that if only 72 people would die in a very short period, they could become King.Ī common subtrope is the Challenging the Chief trope where the role of boss goes to whoever's the biggest badass, who can kill or defeat any other badass in ritual combat.

Hence the trope name referring to the Klingons of Star Trek, who are often portrayed as accepting assassination of a superior (with varying justification) as a legitimate option for career advancement. Its a fun show, but you'd think the writers would have built something into the cannon to cover all of this.For instance, the Klingon Promotion will turn up in organisations that favour ruthlessness and the heavy dominance of a leader. 25 year old Jewel Staite's character of Keller is likable enough, but unbelievable as a supposed 'best and brightest' experienced leader in the medical field.Īnd how do most of these civilizations have clothing styles that parallel western earth societal norms? Then, how do they come up with 27-30 year old military colonels and apparent leaders in the medical and scientific fields? That just doesn't exist in real life, and is even a difficult sell in fiction. No such mechanism exists in the SG1/SGA universe. Oh, and then there's Michael the wraith/human hybrid with a west Texas accent? Star Trek overcame this anacrony via the 'universal translator'. For that matter, how the hell do wraith, an entirely different species who didn't even know earth existed, naturally speak fluent English? Nobody even has an accent except for the occasional Jersey, New York, or even British accent. How is it that humans, apparently either taken from earth thousands of years before the earliest forms of English language were spoken, or independently evolved in a whole other galaxy after separate creation by the ancients, are miraculously able to converse in modern English with the Earthlings.

#Brad glover skaven sky fleet series#

I love this whole series and have binged it dozens of times, but it requires a tremendous amount of willing suspension of common sense disbelief.