I wish there was more extremes we could take for our choices.
If the harshest you can be in the face of blatant disobedience and disrespect for the chain of command during the middle of a coup is to make them do push ups, you are kind of being forced to embody a very weak leader. I wanted Kara locked up in the brig (and profoundly humiliated), not watching my back on an uncharted planet.