Posted: 4/5/2007 10:51:03 AM EDT
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I'm watching some of this show on TV, and I've noticed everybody is an officer. I have never once seen any enlisted personnel on this show. Does Star Fleet have no enlisted men? 
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Gene Roddenberry had stated that Starfleet doesn't have enlisted. Everyone is a graduate of Starfleet Academy. Later on once his health started declining and after he died, the writers changed that idea, and since then it has been clear that there are enlisted and there are officers. This started at about the beginning of TNG's Fourth Season. Miles O'Brien is enlisted, and there have been other enlisted minor characters. O'Brien's rank was never mentioned early on in TNG. But starting in the 4th season, it was made clear that his rank was Chief Petty Officer. That remained true through DS9 as well. |
Sounds to me like O'brien has hit a glass ceiling of sorts. He needs a promotion! |
Dude. You know too much about star track. |
I don't know about 1st sargents but there was Sargent Zelmo Zale a regular and Corporal Max Klinger got promoted to Sargent towards the end of the series |
I was a very big fan back in the TNG/DS9 days. I had tech manuals and behind-the-scenes books and about fifty of those paperback Trek novels. I never really got into Voyager or Enterprise though, and I'm nowhere near as into it as I used to be. I still watch the show on occasion though. |
I want to buy the DS9 series to watch the entire thing since I only saw episodes here and there. I don't wanna pay $300 though! 
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He got one when he joined DS9. I don't think it was a rank promotion, but it was a big job promotion. Then at the end of DS9, he left to go back to Earth to teach at the Academy. |
I remembered a flap over this back in the day and googled. It's WIKI(I know, I know) but I actually do remember the flap. Yes, I like Star Trek. Yes I am really a girl. Yes, I have all 7 seasons of TNG and all the TNG movies on disc. Anybody who makes fun of me will experience a Vucan Death Grip on their internet testicles. That is all. |
The only thing I've found of the entire series is a highly compressed set that won't even play for me. I downloaded the first 2 DVDs of it and neither will play even with the required proprietary codec. Anybody know where I can find a bootleg of the series for say $50 instead of paying the retail $300?  I found this: tv-links.co.uk/ It lets you watch lots of TV shows over the internet but it's incredibly small/compressed so the quality is not very good. Better than nothing I suppose. |
What do we get if we tell you that you'd look great in 7 of 9's outfit? 
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I thought Scotty was a Chief as well. Yeoman Rand was Kirk's "Lewinsky".  memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Janice_Rand |
If you have a video file that won't play, download and run G-Spot. It's a program that will analyze the video file and tell you what codec is required to play it. DVDs don't need a proprietary codec. They either are in DVD format or they aren't. There is some program called ratDVD that I've heard of, but have no experience with. That may be what you had. It does require special software. You might have downloaded RMVB files. I haven't had good experiences with those. Try for XVid or DivX format. |
Okay. I'll give you a pass because you didn't bite on the "Star Track". 
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You're thinking of the Vulcan Nut Kick. Do you have TOS too? You're not a real Trek fan without TOS. 
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Just try disappointing me. [braces self} I can take it! No, it's ok. For you, it should be a dress or nothing. I just happen to have no dress in my cabin. j/k of course. Well, it's true that I have no dress, but the innuendo part...ummm....nevermind. 
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TOS? What's a TOS? I have alot of crap...a working communicator pin, phaser, commermorative plates, plaques, all the ornaments from Hallmark (with original packaging) autographs by John DeLancie ( Q ), Denise Crosby (who is absolutely STUNNING, BTW) Robert Duncan MacNeil...Hubby is a huge TNG geek---he assimilated me . |
OMG! It's a POSER! Nah, TOS = The Original Series. I grew up on TOS in syndication before TNG started, so it'll always have a special place in my mind. Captain Kirk was my moral compass growing up... and come to think of it, that probably explains a lot about me. 
Eeeeeexcellent. Another valuable addition to the collective. 
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He was promoted to Senior Chief Petty Officer later in DS9. And being the Chief of Operations doesn't necessary mean much when you're in the ass end of no where in a place no one ever heard of or wants to be.(which is what DS9 was right after the Cardi withdraw). Think of his "job upgrade" as going from a low level maintanence tech in the Pentagon to being in charge of a Radar station in the Yukon. |
You have a working Phaser??? SWEET!!!
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Chief O'Brien?? They clearly have some in the early series, they showed up as security officers, experts, other people working on the engineering systems, etc. But for the most, you are correct in stating that with the exception of O'Brien I'm willing to bet none had speaking parts. They showed up more in ground isntallations. I'ld be willing to bet that except for Roddenbury, few if any of the authors had military experience or were willing to forecast a "ships" crewing structure in the future. Most of the traditional crew roles were automated. The food replicators. And with no dirt ever (? yeah sure?) no ned for custodial or janitorial. And except for Kirk nobody ever tore uniforms. so no laundry services by hand. Not unbelievable. Uniforms all synthetic fiber, dumped by owner in a laundry chute send to an automated dry cleaning or electrozippy process and then RFI or barcoded after folding returned by internal distribution system to owners closets?? |
E-Bay. I just found our VHS tape of the first 4 DS-9 episodes. DS9 was my favorite show. Good character development and relationship evolution. |
Rom worked in waste extraction, so yea there are still ditry jobs. |
Rom was a civilian Ferengi on a Station. Not a Starfleet member on a starship. |
Sorry...when I saw TOS my Business Admin brain went into overdrive and thought: Boilerplate....Terms Of Service.... *I* don't care for the original series...  Hubby has some crap from the TOS, but his preference is TNG (I think it's a Troi thing  ) We watched DS9 for bit, and Voyager and Enterprise...but never really gor hooked. It was TNG all the way. Empathy's a turn-on, apparently....
Ever see British Comedian Eddie Izzard's routine on Star Trek phasers??? OMG! 
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