Must be a very simple test if there is that kind of stigma attached to failing! Now if it were a really hard test that only a few could pass....well now I could understand failing.
So...a candidate for command with all sorts of submarine experience fails....has his buttons cut off and saber broken...and cannot serve in a Sub ever. Seems a waste of talent that was thought highly enough of to offer him a chance at command.
Course if he cannot pass the command course and was returned to the crew and the skipper was lost for some reason then an unqualified guy might step up to take command I guess. Makes sense in a left handed way.
Wait a minute...but if non-hackers are given the heave-ho, and the rest of the officers have never been tested....how do we know they could step up and replace a lost Captain?
