Easiest and hardest jobs in Starfleet

Toilet maintenance. Easy, because they obviously don’t exist in Starfleet. (Sinks do, but no toidies.)

Captain. Hard, because it’s lonely at the top (except for the bath tub and rubber duckie).

You’ve been stuck in the Delta Quadrant way too long.

Isn’t that your job, Voyager?

And look what happened when they finally gave her a real job.

Easiest job for me: Member of the Science Department in TOS. Spock knows everything immediately and never asks his department for any studies or information. I suspect they file star maps and sensor reports, and after that ten minutes of work is done play solitaire all day.

Different Voyager. The women in the Starship Voyager in my novel (which predates the show) are a lot hotter than Janeway - and she isn’t even too old for me.

I figure computer programmer is pretty easy. You just spend all day putting in no-ops and screwing stuff up and making the computer sucky so that things like piloting and phaser aiming are actually more efficient through a touch screen and people can feel good about themselves.

Aren’t you confusing Starfleet JAG with SCIS /CID (or whatever they call it?)

I’d imagine that the Starfleet JAG folks would be nice and cozy on starbases, and the SCIS agents/officers would be the ones in the fleet.

Real Starfleet
[ensign:Captain I am detecting a ship.
Captain: Hai…
Ensign: They are power weapons to fire?
Captain: Red alert. deflector shields up, target their weapons, evasive manuevers.
Weapons O: Aiming phasers… weapons targeted…
Captain: Fire.
WO: firing phasers, their weapons are at 50 percent.
Captain: fire again!
WO: their weapons are disabled, but we took 3 shots and got 100 people killed.
]

wolfman’s star fleet.
{
Computer: Ship detected off port, They powered weapons so I raised shields, and targeted full phasers at their weapons core in accordance with protocol 12. Encounter time was .00012 seconds. Do you need another Martini while I transmit all relevant communications to them?
Captain, Nah, make it a White Russian this time
}

Speaking of Ten Forward, was there a bar on the Enterprise E or was it an all out battleship?

True, most of her time would be spent doing administrative work, but she’d still probally do as much actual doctoring as possible if for no other reason than to keep her skills from decaying.

Good God man! Now I need to burn my brain out of my head to get that mental image to go away.

“but the animal is inside-out …and it exploded” :wink:
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+1, especially after Worf’s workout routine or Riker’s jazz bar program…

[QUOTE=Slow Moving Vehicle]
I mean, at least Bev was called “Chief Medical Officer”, which suggests that there were a few other docs aboard. But one psych for over a thousand people? Come on.
[/QUOTE]

Mix the “What’s wrong?” medicine cabinets from THX 1138 and ELIZA, and you’ve probably got enough psychoanalytic horsepower to handle all but the most banal and trivial of problems.

It’s just when Lt. Barclay has a problem that Deanna needs to clear her schedule. :slight_smile:

Enterprise HR officer would be a pretty sucky job.

(Intercom voice) Ensign Redshirt, report for Away Team.

HR officer sighs, pulls up Redshirt’s file on the computer, marks “DECEASED”, notifies Starfleet HQ, gets a big box to collect Redshirt’s personal effects and gets ready to fill out a while bunch of incident reports when the team gets back.

Then there’s the whole business of deciding whether to file reports whenever a crewmember goes berserk. Is that a disciplinary issue or just another case of alien possession?

Okay, I’m a straight female, but I don’t understand why the hate for Janeway. Don’t know about her abilities as a captain, but she’s attractive, has a great voice, and isn’t too old. I think if I was a guy I’d want to boink her.

I do wonder if anyone’s ever boinked a holographic zombie.

Damn straight. That gravelly voice… Mmm.

Mrs. Kate Columbo in space.

I was mostly put off by VOY in general. Whine of the week, Weird forehead alien of the week, Stupid holodeck idea of the week, Chacotay or Janeway act all pompous for no good reason of the week, etc…

Did have some good eps, tho.

It’s all those “Me, too” posts.

My work here is done.