Remember when Jellico commanded the Dauntless to fire a torpedo into the Neutral Zone because he didn’t want to upset the Romulans during sensitive negotiations by simply having the ship go in itself?
Jellico might not be a badmiral but he’s certainly a bad-at-his-jobmiral, and he was a crap-at-his-jobtain as well.
Alternate future Admiral Janeway doesn’t qualify.
Prime timeline Admiral Janeway might qualify if only because we never see her do anything.
On Prodigy, she sees the young crew for their potential and helps them move forward. Never would I count alt Janeway. Her taking out a large portion of Borg with a virus is pretty badass, though.
Here’s the thing…we’ve seen that the time cops will show up and set things “right” whenever it suits them. No one stepped in to stop Admiral Janeway. Having her take out the Borg was intentional. I’d say that means she counts.
By her actions, perhaps. Her demeanor and attitude, at least early in the finale, show her callousness and disregard borne of what she perceived as failure to bring everyone (mostly Seven) home. She had forgotten the family she built through their shared hardship. Prime Janeway had the advantage of seeing what she could become and took actions that would go on to make her not qualify as a “badmiral.”
edit: Also, the time “boyscouts” are an ineffectual and useless branch. Had we gotten a more fleshed out Temporal Civil Cold War, I might say otherwise.
Wait, isn’t alternate timeline Janeway the prime timeline Janeway, and only after temporal interference do we get the final Janeway?
Wait Wait Wait, where is sisko/Kira in all this?
Kira pushed a four shift rotation to Sisko while he was delirious with a massive head injury. Later he suggested the idea as well and Kira was so happy he wasn’t dead/ agreed that she just took joy in agreeing with his “suggestion”
That was a clear callback to jellico in my opinion.
Janeway got her genocide and murdering done when she was a captain I guess.
Don’t forget when she tortured Tom Paris by giving him 30 days of solitary confinement, no reading material or anything to stimulate him, and gave him purposefully bland food the entire time.
That was already considered a breach of human rights in our unenlightened 20th century, but Janeway saw it as a fitting punishment for… checks notes… saving an entire species of sentient alien life, albeit ones whose ruler decided that they didn’t want to be saved.
Admirals Cornwell and Vance, are we nothing to you?