Nharia1 wrote...
I never understood why the whole bit with the Marines in the bar was a Renegade situation? Shouldn't it have been a Paragon? Since its increasing morale and all that?
It's a Military Chain of Command thing. Officers don't hang out with the enlisted men because they may have to order one of them to their deaths in the line of duty. It's called Fraternization in the legal codes.
Basically it comes from the fact that an officer should comport themselves with professionalism and integrity. If a conflict of interest was perceived in the heat of battle. Say an officer was friends with a person in a line of potential candidates for sealing a pressure leak that would result in said person's death, the impartiality and objectivity of the decision could be called into question.. that would hurt morale and risk mutiny, insubordination or hesitation in the most extreme cases which could jeopardize the mission.. hence renegade.