Michael Burnham should have never been involved with Starfleet Academy

Imagine someone without a driver's license being the reason you pass or fail your automotive license exam. Or having a vegetarian judge your ability to make ribs. Imagine having someone judge your painting when they couldn't draw stick figures correctly. Now imagine that one of those people is going to open up a school for people to do just that.

Enter Michael Burnham. The character that led Star Trek: Discovery through five rough seasons was the character at the end of the show who then ushered the first class of Starfleet Cadets in years into the academy. It's weird enough that Burnham, of all people, would open the academy. After all, she never went. She was a graduate of the Vulcan Science Academy, which made her qualified to serve in Starfleet but not exactly a graduate of the Starfleet Academy.

That alone makes her inducting the next class of recruits hilarious and out of place. After all, you had the likes of Saru, Jett Reno, Sylvia Tilly, and others who did go through the Academy who could've done the speech that essentially reopened the school. Instead, someone who didn't even go there was the one to do so.

What's worse is that Burnham is forever going to be known as the woman who committed treason and got her captain killed. Scared of a horrible plot point that no writer could ever fix, Burnham is one of the least appropriate captains in Starfleet history to ever induct a new class of students. How do you justify her standing in front of recruits, expecting them to take an oath of service, when she couldn't do that?

It seems odd, dare we say poorly thought out, that she'd be the one to essentially reopen the school.

There are honestly few characters that it would've made worse sense for them to be the ones to give that speech that brought in that new class of cadets. The Burnham character went through an extensive overhaul from seasons three to five, but no matter what she does or does after the events of the pilot, she'll always be remembered as the woman who committed treason and started a war.