Major Hayes was right
I like Reed but man, his ego is bigger than the Delphic Expanse.
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It always bugged me that a Major was calling the Lieutenant "sir".
He is the civilian authority the Major answers to. There's not rank between them.
Somehow he's a civilian "Lieutenant", but well, Enterprise is full of subtle jokes about this.