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Sometimes, a soldier doesn't respect the law and/or his orders; other times, someone under military jurisdiction, such as a civilian living in a zone under anarchy or working for the army, ends up on the bad side of the law. In both cases, they end up court-martialed.note Technically "court-martial" is a noun meaning "a military court", so we should say the person was "tried by court-martial". But "court-martialed" is shorter and easier to write, so a lot of people use it instead. Military courts have a reputation for harshness, and in portrayals of authoritarian states, they are used as a background effect, especially when used against civilians; Hanging Judges can end up serving as judges in these. Among the outcomes of these courts are Shot at Dawn and Insignia Rip-Off Ritual. In fiction, this is often played as a particularly dark take on the Kangaroo Court. Historically, a court-martial may not only be held to determine someone's guilt, but also to verify their innocence and officially clear their name. This was a fairly common outcome for Captains who faced court-martial for the loss of their ships. It also wasn't unheard of for a disgraced officer to request a court-martial, in hopes of clearing their name in a court of law. Note that most navies have a standard court-martial which convenes whenever a ship is lost; this does not presume that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing, but merely ensures that the circumstances surrounding the loss of the ship are made part of the official record (in fact, some captains saw their careers harmed or even effectively ended because they didn't have a court-martial for an official record). These are usually called a "court of inquiry", as their role is not try a defendant on any charge but merely to investigate the situation. If some evidence is found that implicates anyone with a crime, then another court-martial would conduct a trial for that. The inevitable intersection of a Courtroom Episode and Military Fiction. May also take place in a Law Procedural dealing with the military. Obviously Truth in Television. Examples |
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In Runaways, this is Xavin's apparent fate; they deliver themselves to the Majesdanian Light Brigade and are taken away to answer for their role in the destruction of Majesdane. Since there is presumably no civilian government left, the trial is likely to be a court-martial. | |
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Honor Harrington: Much of Field of Dishonor focuses on the court-martial of Captain Lord Pavel Young for disobeying direct orders and cowardice in the face of the enemy, among several other counts incurred during the Battle of Hancock in The Short Victorious War. Due to random "luck of the draw" when a computer selects the court-martial board, half of the admirals on the panel judging the trial are in thrall to Young's father, Earl North Hollow, whether due to personal politics or blackmail. This results in Young being found guilty on four of six counts but with no agreement on the other two; he's dishonorably discharged but not sentenced to death. The same book features Honor being investigated for misconduct in the same battle. While serving as Flag Captain to Rear Admiral Sarnow, Honor assumed command of the fleet when he was wounded, rather than informing the senior officer present that the Admiral had been incapacitated. Everyone assumed the orders were being sent on Admiral Sarnow's behalf during the battle. Ironically, one of the officers senior to Honor was Captain Young, who was ultimately being court-martialed for cowardice and disobeying Captain Harrington's orders to stay in formation (which is weasel-worded as "orders from the flagship"). Ultimately they decide that Honor acted appropriately under the circumstances (they were actively under fire and taking the time to inform Sarnow's next-in-command could have cost them the battle), but Honor is later relieved of command after killing Lord Young in a duel after he hires a contract killer to murder her boyfriend in revenge. A full chapter of Echoes of Honor (plus sections of several others) is devoted to the courts-martial of State Sec guards on Hades and the efforts the former prisoners are making to keep those courts-martial according to the book, instead of a vengeance spree. |
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In the original Ghost in the Shell manga Major Kusanagi is at one point charged with manslaughter in the line of duty after Section 9's antics (specifically her reflexively killing the person they were trying to capture when he snuck up behind her) are caught on film. She skips court before the verdict is read to ferret out what's really going on. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Simpson Tide", Homer joins the Navy Reserves. He gets put in charge of a sub and sails to Russia. After he gets stopped, Homer is court-martialed. But all of his judges admit to other crimes (or at least investigations), so they are not currently qualified to judge him. | |
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In "Shakedown Shenanigans" Captain Kanril mentions in passing that she was court-martialed for the loss of her previous command the USS George Hammond, but she was cleared. | |
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One episode of The Good Wife has Lockhart-Gardner defending an Army veteran accused in the murder of his wife. They'd gotten him acquitted in Chicago's civilian court but he was then charged under military law, which doesn't count as double jeopardy due to being a separate legal system. Among other wrinkles, Will's team has to explain away the defendant having packed a suitcase to leave the country without stating his real reason, that he was planning to go AWOL rather than serve another tour in the Middle East. | |
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The court-martial and execution of Admiral John Byng in 1757 for non-adherence to the Fighting Instructions remains controversial to this day. As Voltaire commented in Candide, he was executed pour encourager les autres. | |
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In Sergeant Rutledge, African-American top sergeant Woody Strode is court-martialed in the post-Civil War west for raping and murdering his commander's (white) teenage daughter and shooting his commander to death before running away. Ironically he did kill his commander. Rutledge found the girl naked and strangled and he was covering her with a blanket when the commander came in, misinterpreted the situation and fired his revolver. Rutledge had to fire back to save his life and knew no one would believe him. Despite claims to the contrary the court-martial was rife with bigotry. | |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist, Colonel Roy Mustang sometimes uses this as a threat for his underlings to follow his order, often for petty reasons. For instance, telling Ed to accept Armstrong as his bodyguard, or Havoc to meet and date Armstrong's sister. The one time it failed- when he pulled rank to make Major Alex Louis Armstrong answer his questions about Roy's best friend Lieutenant Maes Hughes' death- tipped him off that something is seriously wrong: someone with higher authority than himself is shutting his subordinate, meaning the top brass is involved. | |
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The second episode of Star Trek: Discovery ends with Commander Michael Burnham, the (former) First Officer of the starship Shenzhou, being court-martialed for mutiny and assaulting Captain Georgiou. She pleads guilty, is stripped of her rank and commission, and is sent to prison for life — until her fortunes change six months later. | |
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In the Community episode "G.I.Jeff", Jeff dreams that he and the study group members are members of G.I. Joe. He gets court-martialed for killing Destro, which is against the Joe team's rules for some reason. | |
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: "Ad Astra Per Aspera" deals with Enterprise XO Una Chin-Riley being tried for breaking the Federation's No Transhumanism Allowed laws (namely that she lied on her application to Starfleet Academy about being genetically modified, which would have excluded her from serving in Starfleet). Her lawyer is able to switch things around and instead grant her asylum from the Federation’s own laws. | |
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The Rats, The Bats, and The Ugly is about Chip's court-martial by their planet's insanely corrupt and incompetent military for what happened in the previous book (Actually winning a battle and sleeping with the richest girl on the planet), and his friends' attempts to help him avoid the firing squad. | |
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In the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, Olga Romanoff actually requests a Court of Inquirynote In British military practice, one step down from a court-martial to answer charges of reckless deployment of the valuable Pegasi. Hearing the evidence, Vetinari rules that no blame attaches and the Pegasus Service has now evolved a protocol to prevent the same thing happening again. the Service has discovered that six Pegasi, each carrying a Witch-pilot and a pillion passenger who is also a magic user, will cause a massive critical mass of magical potential when flying together, especially into a magical dimension, and Strange Things Happen. | |
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In an episode of Matlock Ben is appointed as a defense attorney for a soldier undergoing a court-martial. He has to be repeatedly reminded that the Judge is called "Sir" not "your honor." | |
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In Origins, it's repeatedly discussed that by all rights Samantha Shepard should face a court-martial, but due to circumstances and her previous good deeds, she's not. | |
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In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Admiral Kirk and the others return to Earth to face court-martial for stealing the Enterprise in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. After he saves Earth from the whale probe, most of the charges are dropped, and he's demoted back to captain for the remaining one. He's fine with that. | |
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Towards the end of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Ahsoka is subjected to a court-martial after being framed for a bombing attack on the Jedi Temple and the murder of one of the perpetrators. She is cleared of all charges when the real bomber is captured and confesses, but the experience proves to be the final straw in her growing disillusionment with the Jedi Order, causing her to quit and leave to find her own way. | |
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Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines: Dick Dastardly threatens Klunk with a court-martial when his weather machine built to stop Yankee Doodle Pigeon backfires, allowing the pigeon to get away (episode "Ceiling Zero Zero"). The potential charge was aiding and abetting the enemy. | |
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In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Rules of Engagement" Worf faces a extradition hearing for destroying a Klingon civilian transport that decloaked in front of him in mid-battle. The Klingons somehow get the presiding admiral to let the case be decided by Klingon law, but he's cleared after it turns out to have been a Klingon frame-up to begin with. Then subverted by Sisko, who points out that Worf had screwed up tremendously, and that if it hadn't been a Klingon plot he would have been punished for firing weapons without confirming the target was an enemy vessel. |
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X-Wing Series: In The Krytos Trap Tycho Celchu is tried for treason and the murder of Corran Horn at the end of Wedge's Gamble. It was partially a covert operation to smoke out The Mole in Rogue Squadron, which Tycho is suspected by some of being, and charges are summarily dropped when Corran turns up in the courtroom very much alive and identifies the real mole. | |
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In Band of Brothers, Cpt. Sobel threatens Lt. Winters with a court-martial, his real intention being to simply punish Winters for personal jealousies. Winters calls Sobel's bluff by endorsing the court-martial, which is for a ticky-tack infraction he know won't hold up. Sobel is dismayed, as he knows this will only undermine his authority further. | |
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Mass Effect 2: Tali, The Engineer on your crew, is recalled to the Quarian Migrant Fleet and put on trial for treason. There are no dedicated military lawyers or military judges - the admiralty board acts as judges, while Tali's ship's captain - the Player Character in this case - is her defense counsel. This actually resembles how courts-martial used to be done in the US armed forces before military legal jurisdiction was established by the UCMJ. It also resembles an "Admirals' Mast" which is like a Captain's Mast in navies, except only for senior officers. | |
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At the start of Mass Effect 3 Shepard is in house arrest awaiting trial for the destruction of a batarian colony in Mass Effect 2's "Arrival" DLC (or for working with the human-supremacist terrorist group Cerberus to stop the Collectors; the charges are never stated directly but it had to do with one or both of those). The charges are dropped when the Reapers turn up and Shepard is needed to help fight them. | |
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Mass Effect: Mass Effect 2: Tali, The Engineer on your crew, is recalled to the Quarian Migrant Fleet and put on trial for treason. There are no dedicated military lawyers or military judges - the admiralty board acts as judges, while Tali's ship's captain - the Player Character in this case - is her defense counsel. This actually resembles how courts-martial used to be done in the US armed forces before military legal jurisdiction was established by the UCMJ. It also resembles an "Admirals' Mast" which is like a Captain's Mast in navies, except only for senior officers. At the start of Mass Effect 3 Shepard is in house arrest awaiting trial for the destruction of a batarian colony in Mass Effect 2's "Arrival" DLC (or for working with the human-supremacist terrorist group Cerberus to stop the Collectors; the charges are never stated directly but it had to do with one or both of those). The charges are dropped when the Reapers turn up and Shepard is needed to help fight them. |
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In Alexis Carew: Mutineer, Alexis and the enlisted crew of HMS Hermione are tried for mutiny in a Kangaroo Court: to wit, the tribunal believes the captain and the other officers over Alexis and the enlisted men, and her JAG is more interested in making the Navy look good than in providing a vigorous defense. Fortunately, the Hanoverese captain who held them all as prisoners of war flies in under flag of truce and hands over Hermione's log, which shows the extenuating circumstances behind the mutiny: Captain Neals was flogging the men for the tiniest of offenses and disrated Alexis, a midshipman, for refusing to beg forgiveness for them on bended knee. Alexis is cleared and restored to her former rank (and then uses the video as blackmail to get the court to acquit the enlisted men), and Neals is suspended for psychiatric reasons with a promise he'll be Reassigned to Antarctica and never given another ship. | |
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Subverted in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Captain Ramius is called upon by her Chief of Staff to court-martial Kira for disobeying her orders in battle, but she lets him off with a warning after explaining to him why his actions were dangerous and irresponsible. Justified in that he is technically an underage civilian forced by circumstance to pilot mechs for the military — not an enlisted soldier, like Ramius and Badgiruel. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Next Generation: As stated in "The Measure of a Man", Jean-Luc Picard faced a general court-martial for the loss of his previous command, the USS Stargazer, but was cleared. In "The Drumhead", an enlisted man in the Enterprise's sickbay is accused of being a Romulan spy during an investigation of an explosion on the ship (he lied on his paperwork that he was a quarter Vulcan instead of a quarter Romulan). The explosion turns out to be due to a manufacturing defect, Picard calls out the investigator for mounting a Witch Hunt, and the case is dismissed. Star Trek: The Original Series In "The Menagerie", Spock gets put on trial for kidnapping his previous captain, Chris Pike, commandeering the Enterprise, and taking it to Talos IV, a forbidden planet that Spock had been to previously when under Captain Pike's command. Spock uses a legal loophole to have the trial occur on the ship while they're in transit, and in the end the charges are dropped. "Court Martial": Kirk gets put on trial for causing the death of a crew member through negligence. The crewman faked his death because he believed Kirk cost him a starship command by reporting him for an incident when they were both junior officers. Kirk is cleared of all charges. In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Rules of Engagement" Worf faces a extradition hearing for destroying a Klingon civilian transport that decloaked in front of him in mid-battle. The Klingons somehow get the presiding admiral to let the case be decided by Klingon law, but he's cleared after it turns out to have been a Klingon frame-up to begin with. Then subverted by Sisko, who points out that Worf had screwed up tremendously, and that if it hadn't been a Klingon plot he would have been punished for firing weapons without confirming the target was an enemy vessel. The second episode of Star Trek: Discovery ends with Commander Michael Burnham, the (former) First Officer of the starship Shenzhou, being court-martialed for mutiny and assaulting Captain Georgiou. She pleads guilty, is stripped of her rank and commission, and is sent to prison for life — until her fortunes change six months later. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: "Ad Astra Per Aspera" deals with Enterprise XO Una Chin-Riley being tried for breaking the Federation's No Transhumanism Allowed laws (namely that she lied on her application to Starfleet Academy about being genetically modified, which would have excluded her from serving in Starfleet). Her lawyer is able to switch things around and instead grant her asylum from the Federation’s own laws. |
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At the beginning of Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier, Roger Wilco is court-martialed for his actions at the end of the previous game (out of which the only reasonable charge loss of his command, the garbage scow Eureka, even if it was for a good reason). The Kangaroo Court finds him guilty off all charges and the only reason the StarCon Federation keeps him around (in his usual role as a janitor) is that he managed to rescue the crew of the SCS Goliath and returned the flagship intact. (Well, those, and the fact that he's a real good cleaner.) | |
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In the McAuslan series of short stories, the eponymous Private McAuslan, the dirtiest, dimmest and most inept soldier in the British Army, is court-martialed for disobedience. Whilst the workings of a British Army court-martial are held up for inspection and pronounced fair by the author, the accused, unbelievably, is found not guilty. | |
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M*A*S*H "The Novocaine Mutiny": Pierce is on the receiving end of a trial instigated by Burns. The events of Burns' short tenure as a Commanding Officer are discussed making use of flashbacks. Burns' embellished version ultimately charges Pierce with mutiny. After hearing both sides, the court finds Pierce not guilty and otherwise preserves the status quo. In "Snap Judgement", the 4077 suffers from elusive thieves and a Polaroid camera goes missing. Continuing in "Snappier Judgment," Klinger, who bought the camera back from black market peddlers, because he couldn't explain possessing it or why he delayed reporting it stolen, is arrested by military police and court-martialed for the theft instead. Winchester volunteers to be his legal counsel, while Hawkeye and BJ set out to catch the culprit. Because of Winchester's ineptitude in law and the unfortunate circumstances, Klinger is just about to be convicted when the real thief is brought into the court, absolving Klinger of the charges. Two potential courts-martial against Hawkeye were when he punched Frank ("House Arrest") and when he said General Steele was nuts ("The General Flipped At Dawn"). They were dismissed when a visiting female officer tried to make out with Frank then played the rape card (Margaret believed her and cleared Hawkeye) then when General Steele went off his nut at Hawkeye's preliminary hearing. Henry Blake was put on trial after Frank and Margaret leveled charges on how he was running the unit. Hawkeye and Trapper manage to get Henry off the hook after doing a little blackmail on Frank. When a visiting general dies from myocardial infarction while making out with Margaret, his attache wants to fudge the details of his death and expects Hawkeye and Trapper to follow suit. When they refuse, the attache threatens them with a court-martial. They counter: |
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Star Trek: The Original Series In "The Menagerie", Spock gets put on trial for kidnapping his previous captain, Chris Pike, commandeering the Enterprise, and taking it to Talos IV, a forbidden planet that Spock had been to previously when under Captain Pike's command. Spock uses a legal loophole to have the trial occur on the ship while they're in transit, and in the end the charges are dropped. "Court Martial": Kirk gets put on trial for causing the death of a crew member through negligence. The crewman faked his death because he believed Kirk cost him a starship command by reporting him for an incident when they were both junior officers. Kirk is cleared of all charges. |
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The A-Team shows the team being tried for a disastrous covert operation that resulted in the apparent death of a general, getting convicted, dishonorably discharged, and imprisoned. | |
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In the Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", Zapp Brannigan court-martials the Planet Express crew for entering the Forbidden Zone. This is a direct parody of the Star Trek episode "The Menagerie" mentioned above. At the end of the episode it is revealed that the trial had been taken place in the middle of battle with the Villain of the Week. | |
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The Mysterious Case of Neelix's Lungs: Captain Stadi tells Crewman Celes that ordinarily she'd be court-martialed for assault and battery of an officer (the Bajoran punched out one of their Cardassian allies for asking her on a date), but given Voyager's situation they don't have access to JAG so Stadi resorts to non-judicial punishment (demotion, loss of privileges, and Punishment Detail). In chapter 6's epilogue there's a brief mention that William Riker is facing a court-martial for the loss of the Enterprise in Star Trek: Generations. |
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In Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Paks is tried for assaulting a superior officer, but it's quickly ascertained that she only defended herself against an Attempted Rape. The officer in question turned out to have been drugged by a third party with a grudge against Paks. The culprits are tried, and one is executed and the other discharged tinisi turin.note Stripped naked, crudely shaved bald all over, and kicked out of the camp. | |
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The old rooster in Chicken Run threatens Rocky with this at one point. | |
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In the Temeraire series, a captain whose dragon is killed is automatically court-martialed in much the same way that naval captains are automatically court-martialed for losing a ship. (In the rare event that they survive, that is. Typically they fall to their deaths with the dragon.) Laurence himself is court-martialed for treason between books four and five for giving the cure for the dragon plague to France and found guilty. | |
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Horatio Hornblower Lieutenant Hornblower has a court of inquiry, which investigates whether the full court-martial is needed, over Captain Sawyer's fall down the hatchway and subsequent removal from command. They decide against it in order to cover up Sawyer's insanity. In Hornblower During the Crisis, Commander Meadows faces a court-martial for his loss of the Hotspur shortly after taking command of that ship. As the ship's previous commander, Hornblower has to testify in court about several aspects of the incident. At the end of Flying Colours, Hornblower faces one for the loss of the Sutherland at the end of the previous book, as the loss of a ship incurs an automatic court-martial no matter the circumstances. Since he lost his ship by taking out four French ones in a heroic and doomed action, caused France to use manpower and resources looking for him after escaping prison, and recaptured a British ship the French had captured in order to get back to England, the government exonerates him and turns him into a propaganda piece. |
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In Catch-22, Clevinger ends up on one which had been crossed with a Kangaroo Court on trumped up charges. When Clevinger tries to protest that punishing him would be a violation of justice, the judge goes into a full-blown rant. | |
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In Sirantha Jax: Aftermath Jax faces a court-martial for changing the codes on the beacons that guide ships through grimspace, which, while it saved humanity by causing the Morgut invasion fleet intent on eating humanity to be lost in space, also caused at least 600 friendly deaths. She's acquitted, but accepts early retirement afterwards and gives her attorney orders to settle any wrongful death suits. | |
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In Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman episode "The Washington Affair" (S3E7), Sully is arrested for desertion, tried by a court-martial and sentenced to be Shot at Dawn before being subjected to Insignia Rip-Off Ritual. He did desert because, becoming a sniper, he was ordered to kill a Confederate official before learning afterwards the man he killed was only a gun trader rival of Sully's superiors, who were involved in war profiteering involving the sale of weapons to both sides of the American Civil War. Later, when the truth came at light and that Mike and Sully save Ulysses Grant, they are all pardoned. | |
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Happens in the Steel movie, when a seemingly harmless weapon the main character makes Goes Horribly Wrong. | |
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In Billy Budd the trial of the eponymous sailor is central to the plot. | |
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In the fourth Ark Royal novel, Warspite, Captain John Naiser holds a Captain's Mast (similar, but at sea, or in space as it were) for two engineers accused of selling replacement power conduits on the black market, falsifying documents to make it look like they'd been used properly, and injuries to nine crewmen when the parts they were supposed to replace failed and the whole ship lost power. They get confessions with a lie detector and Truth Serums. The senior crewman is sentenced to death, which would have been by hanging but he requested death by airlock; while his partner had been blackmailed by him so she was given a choice between ten years in the second hardest prison in the solar system, or indenture on the colony they'd been deployed to establish on a Titan-like world. She chose the colony. | |
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In the Rumpole of the Bailey episode "Rumpole and the Bright Seraphim", Rumpole is asked to defend a soldier in a court-martial and has some difficulty with the differences from the civilian courts he's used to operating in. | |
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In Battle Zone 1998, if you ignore an order for too long, General Collins will transfer command to another officer and boot you to the mission failed screen in a Nonstandard Game Over. On Mars, he explicitly orders you to not attack a heavily defended Soviet base. If you disobey his orders and succeed, he'll say he won't court-martial you, but threatens to abandon you on some godforsaken dirt ball if you do it again. The Soviets are even more stringent: on the first Io mission of their campaign you are tasked with leading a squadron of bombers to destroy the NSDF base, but if you even briefly backtrack towards your own base you get a Nonstandard Game Over in a prison cell. | |
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In the Doctor Who serial "The War Games", the Doctor and his companions land in what appears to be World War I. They are tried by a supposedly fair court-martial and found guilty of espionage. | |
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The second series of Horatio Hornblower telefilms takes the court of inquiry from Lieutenant Hornblower and turns it into a full-blown court-martial, with one Hanging Judge determined to bring down Hornblower, another judge relatively neutral in the matter, and the third judge being his old commander, Captain Pellew. Testimony takes the form of flashbacks. It ends with Kennedy, who is dying of a gut wound anyway, confessing that he pushed Captain Sawyer down the hold just as the judges are about to ask Hornblower if he did it. As with Lieutenant Hornblower, the truth is that the only living man who knows for sure what happened by the end of the story is Hornblower, and even the audience never learns what really happened. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus had a sketch where a British soldier in World War II was court-martialed for "carrying on the war in other than warlike means", i.e. dressing up as a bag of dainties and flicking wet towels at the enemy. Strangely enough, the tactic seems to have worked, as the soldier survived long enough to be brought to trial. | |
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As is expected by the title and premise, many episodes of JAG involved courts-martial for reasons varying from minor mistakes (that in order to up the drama led to (or nearly led to) major disasters or had their cases led by a Hanging Judge or Kangaroo Court) to dereliction of duty to possible espionage. | |
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In The Avengers, Hank Pym, who has taken on the mantle of Yellowjacket, is put on court-martial by the other Avengers for his attack on Elfqueen after she had surrendered. His response is to engineer a situation that he hopes will convince them to take him back, by means of constructing a robot only vulnerable to his stings to send after the others. The plot fails when his wife Janet defeats the robot instead (since her stings are similar to Pym's) and reveals Pym's deception, leading to not only Pym getting kicked out of the Avengers, but Janet divorcing him (the fact that he hit her when she tried to convince him to abandon his plan did nothing to help his case either). | |
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In chapter 6's epilogue there's a brief mention that William Riker is facing a court-martial for the loss of the Enterprise in Star Trek: Generations. | |
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Sharpe: In Sharpe's Tiger, Richard Sharpe is court-martialed after being goaded into striking the malevolent Sergeant Hakeswill. He's sentenced to two thousand lashes, effectively a painful death sentence, but the flogging is interrupted after 200. Sharpe faces another court-martial in Sharpe's Honour, when he's falsely accused of murdering a Spanish aristocrat. He's convicted and sentenced to hang for political reasons, but another convict is hanged in his place, leaving him free to clear his name. |
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In Paths of Glory three soldiers are court-martialed for cowardice and disobeying orders after refusing to participate in a suicidal attack. It was going to be 100 men but the general is talked into only charging three, one from each company. | |
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In Enemy at the Door, set in German-occupied territory during World War II, this is a recurring hazard not only for the German characters (as in the episode "After the Ball", which features the court-martial of a German soldier accused of sexually assaulting a local) but also for any civilian who transgresses against the German military rule (as in the episode "The Librarian", in which the title character is brought before the German military court after clashing with German soldiers tasked with searching the library and confiscating any books banned by the German authorities). | |
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Ciaphas Cain: In For the Emperor Cain presides over the trials of six Guardsmen from the Valhallan 296th and 301st who had been involved in a Bar Brawl that resulted in the deaths of several Guardsmen and Imperial Navy personnel. The penalty is death, but for morale reasons Cain uses his authority as regimental commissar to commute the sentences to service in a penal legion (or fodder for a Suicide Mission, whichever comes first). He then deals with the root of the problem by re-founding the two amalgamated half-strength regiments as one unit, the Valhallan 597th. The Traitor's Hand wraps up with Cain facing a Commissariat tribunal, basically a court-martial by a different name. The tribunal pretty quickly dismisses the charges against him, and then charges his accuser with gross incompetence for getting in Cain's way and nearly dooming the planet. |
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A Few Good Men is a Law Procedural involving two Marines being tried in the death of a third, and assigned a JAG representative (Danny Kaffee) with a history of pleading out cases. His co-counsel convinces him to go to trial this time. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: As stated in "The Measure of a Man", Jean-Luc Picard faced a general court-martial for the loss of his previous command, the USS Stargazer, but was cleared. In "The Drumhead", an enlisted man in the Enterprise's sickbay is accused of being a Romulan spy during an investigation of an explosion on the ship (he lied on his paperwork that he was a quarter Vulcan instead of a quarter Romulan). The explosion turns out to be due to a manufacturing defect, Picard calls out the investigator for mounting a Witch Hunt, and the case is dismissed. |
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Starship Troopers: Ted Hendrick is sentenced to flogging before getting a dishonorable discharge for assaulting Sergeant Zim during training. Technically the offense merits the death penalty but since neither Zim nor Captain Frankel want that outcome Frankel (who didn't witness the altercation) avoids asking about Zim's black eye and tries to settle the incident with a milder punishment. However, Hendrick is so intent on justifying himself that he unthinkingly blurts out what he did to Zim in front of witnesses, forcing Frankel to convene a court-martial. Frankel is still able to save Hendrick's life by requesting a field court-martial which is not empowered to issue a death penalty, though he and the guilt-ridden Zim are still unhappy as Zim should've been able to prevent a raw recruit from assaulting a superior officer in the first place. The protagonist, Juan Rico, is sentenced to five lashes for a training cock-up that would've gotten teammates killed in combat. Unlike Hendrick, though, he is deemed salvagable and given these lashes as an administrative punishment, designed to disappear from his record after he graduates boot camp. It helps that, when asked if he wanted to appeal the punishment in a court-martial, Rico, realizing how bad he had screwed up and also remembering Hendrick's fate, refuses (much to the officers' relief). There is an off-page one for a deserter who kidnapped and killed a little girl, ending with his conviction and execution. While desertion is technically a capital offense, the death penalty is only invoked if it happened in combat or otherwise endangers lives. Since Federal Service is an all-volunteer force where you can quit at any time except during combat, desertion under other circumstances is seen as pointlessly stupid, and only worth a flogging and dishonorable discharge if the deserter is ever found or turns himself in (as the crime is not believed to be worth wasting any resources on seeking culprits). The offender is only tried and convicted by a military court because the civilian authorities that apprehended him found out he was still on the rolls of the Mobile Infantry and handed back to his unit for punishment. The Federation forces have "thirty-one ways to crash land", that is, thirty-one military capital felonies, including assault on an officer during emergency or wartime. |
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