Canon.
Also a fun fact: "I Love Lucy" is even better in the original Klingon.
“You haven’t experienced Babaloo until you’ve heard it in the original Klingon.”
Also love that this figure exists, but she looks very good in those TOS colors. Have to make both make sense in-universe somehow.
So I’m gonna fan-canon that she’s El-Aurian. She joined Starfleet on the day the Federation Charter signed posing as a Human because her race had not formally contacted Starfleet at that time.
Later on, after becoming a high-ranking member of Starfleet Command, she revealed her true identity. No harm, no foul. She continued to climb the ranks, mostly serving an administrative role but also taking command during missions involving high secrecy.
As of 2499, she is a Fleet Admiral serving as the Marshall of Sol System, which by proxy makes her the Commodore of the First Fleet (The fleet charged with protecting Earth which includes the USS Enterprise).
If you ask her, she’ll gladly talk your ear off about the heydays of the Federation and how Kirk’s Enterprise will always be her personal favorite ship of the fleet.
“I’ve seen so many famous ships and so many great Commanders, but as long as I’ve been alive that was the only ship that was love at first sight. I may have spoiled Kirk with a lot of choice assignments as a result.”
Alternate universe cannon: Ball was the secret wife of Khan Noonien Singh
Meanwhile, the Commander-in-Chief of Starfleet:
Admiral Ball, you have some explaining to do.
'Splainin'
It's fine. She actually earned it. lol
I'm content being the best admiral Starfleet could have had if they weren't a bunch of sticklers for the rules. They're all like "You can't be an admiral because you ✌️didn't go to the Academy✌️, you're not ✌️qualified for the job✌️, and you've ✌️escaped from an institution✌️." 🙄
Could they have found anyone better?
I was always a fan of Admiral Clancy:
Wesley Crusher: VENGEANCE!
Did she pick up Romulan transmissions on her fillings?
That's not a high bar, though. To be the best you just need to not get infected by an alien worm parasite or betray your organisation's founding principles for the prospect of immortality.
So she's the best admiral Starfleet ever had because...
she approved a second pilot?
That's Navigation (1) and Tactical (2), which changes seats a couple episodes later with Sulu.
People do seriously cosplay Lucy Ricardo at conventions for this reason.
Best Admiral was Ross, hands down.
That stooge for Section 31? Hardly.
BS. A recurring theme of DS9 was that the federation principles only exist because in times of crisis there are people willing to do what must be done to prevent annihilation.
Both Ross and Sisco did fucked up shit. They didn't do it because they wanted to, or because they deluded themselves into thinking they had the moral high ground. They knowingly crossed lines they swore they would never cross because that's what they felt they needed to do to ensure the safety of their people.
They weren't wrong.
Nothing Ross did when working with Section 31 was worse than what Sisco did during the events of In the Pale Moonlight. We just didn't get a POV entry of Ross monologuing about how he hates what he's becoming, but at the end of the day he can live with it.
Admiral balls.
Her fingers are really long...
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