Everyone's comments are really interesting. I came into the post thinking that Kara would make a pretty bad commander because she's not great at seeing the big picture. For better or worse, she's a pretty focused person. But now that I think about it, I'm not sure that Adama is much better at seeing the big picture.

Most of Kara's perceived failings are shared by people in positions of power, so I guess my instinctive rejection of the notion of Kara as Pegasus CO is that I don't think she'd be fulfilled by the job.

I'd love to read -or write- the Kara Commands Pegasus AU, but at the end of the day, I'm not sure she'd want it.