I had a job like that early-ish in my career.
I taught myself so much random tech stuff while I was being ignored for 8 hours each day.
I still love that boss. They were great.
…
I’m just realizing that’s probably how Miles emerges as a miracle worker in DS9.
Imagine treating the second most important person in the quadrant like that
Right? Who does Mike think he is calling Picard out of the blue without even a text message first?
In Tapestries Q establishes that Picard doesn’t contribute anything of value to history, so arguably Picard is one of the least important people in the quadrant
Counterpoint: he told Wesley to shut it.
Didn’t everyone?
If not they fucking should have.
“It’s not like it’s a difficult job and you aren’t even an officer.”
Ahahahahaha “Mike”
Emotional damage
Seems a bit like emailing the CEO about your vacation time in a medium sized company. Pretty sure he would have fallen under Riker’s umbrella, and might have had LaForge, Data, or maybe Wesley between him and Riker.
Is this some long-winded headcanon for why he has to interact with Picard in “Emissary”? I didn’t feel like they had any relationship to warrant that.
