: Captain Del Rio was relieved of command by CINCFLEET Lord Hood, and with the
: relationship Hood and the Chief have, it's unlikely that John would face
: punitive repercussions for his disobedience. We don't get any such
: indication of that in Escalation so I think that would probably be the
: weakest argument for "traitor." Plus no one is going to call you
: a traitor for disobeying a superior officer like Andrew Del Rio. It's
: obvious that no one aboard Infinity cared for the asshole. That really
: wouldn't be the right terminology either. Traitor is an entirely different
: beast to "dumbass who didn't follow orders and is now in jail."

: That being said, however, you don't get to captain without making friends and
: Del Rio is probably no exception. Anyone willing to cast out the Master
: Chief and label him a traitor would definitely try to use this instance of
: disobeying a seemingly lawful order from a superior officer as proof that
: he's going off the rails.

: Otherwise, there's nothing really I can to that would lead anyone to
: arbitrarily decry the Chief as a traitor with established canon. What he
: did must still be ahead of us.

I figured it was the whole going AWOL thing with the rest of Blue Team at the end of that Escalation story arc.