Defendant's Ship

A distant Starfleet vessel invoked as an off‑stage presence whose manifest and chain‑of‑command exert decisive legal force within the JAG hearing. The ship itself remains unseen; its identity compresses into a roster of officers and an implied seniority that Phillipa Louvois consults to appoint a prosecutor. Procedurally charged and bureaucratic in effect, the vessel functions as an authoritative source of personnel, hierarchy, and duty—its absent corridors and bridge casting a bureaucratic shadow over the courtroom’s moral and command tensions.