You know, I think we might be taking too many liberties with our crews. Sure, we’ll let X-Men and Wonder Woman slide because they have been in space, but Hiro never has, and God-willing never will go into space, let alone go on some kind of inter-galactic space adventure. I mean…I’m not speaking for the OP on any official behalf, but I don’t think the plan was to staff the ship with any ol’ sci-fi person you want.
We need rules, people! 
Can we use books, or not? If so, then I want the Long twins as my captains of the day. In fact, I’d take that whole crew, as long as we left asshole numero uno Lazarus back at home.
And having a Q on board is cheating, isn’t it? Like asking for Mike Callahan to run the bar.
What. Your ship doesn’t have a bar?
Scotsman? Methinks you’ve got your Celts mixed up.
Spike Siegel, intelligence and security.
Jet Black, maintenance and accounting.
That’s it for TV and movie personnel. I am generally unimpressed by video SF.
Captain, Hazel Meade Stone, after TMIAHM, before she gets preggers. She’ll also have a say in what I buy and sell. She’ll probably figure out a way to fictionalize her exploits and sell them for more than I pay her, too.
Hmmmm, many of my favorite characters lately are fantasy characters…I’ll have to go through my old SF books to properly crew my ship.
You just don’t want Faye to waste time trying to upstage you, right, Lynn?
And it was always Hazel pushing the Gemini Twins the right way, so I’d agree, 'cept that the Long girls own 'em, right? So Laz and Lor for Captain, all the way. They get along with Hazel much better, methinks.
I’ll be in the refresher.
Hardly. That was just the bridge staff; the total complement was forty-six, according to Wikipedia.
Answering my own question:
I don’t think there’s a point to including characters like Wonder Woman in this discussion. Once you include one, you might as well make the crew nobody but.
Oh, go ahead and use books. Just no freaking comic book super-heroes. Otherwise there’s no reason not use anybody but the Justice League.
You misspelled “doomed.”
First of all, Stark and Wayne are going to betray you. That’s inevitable. The only question is will they it do it together (and then betray each other) or conspire against one another (splitting the crew into factions in the process.)
Secondly, that bastard Stark would totally seduce Kaylee and then break her heart. THAT IS NOT ALLOWED! Kaylee must be protected on account of her wonderfulness.
I think Ferengi are immune to telepathy.
Even to a P12 like Bester?
You know, maybe Bester would make a good navigator… I don’t know why, but I think he’d do a good job…
Yeah, and I was just about to hire that dork Guy gARDNER TO MOP HELP WHAT TH
Diana isn’t the most powerful person on the crew. That one’s in engineering. I’d take the people I mentioned even without powers, just for their team qualities. They’d be helpful with powers, but Hal Jordan as a pilot, Diana at Tac Ops, and even Cyc as Away Lead? It’s not a power issue at all, it’s about skill and reliability.
… course, that doesn’t explain Mihoshi. But hell, sometimes crazy works.
C’mon, nobody crewed from the SDF-1 or the Space Battleship Yamoto?
…A few more, continuing from my previous post.
Helm—Chewbacca. Although there might be the slight problem that, on a Defiant-type bridge, it might force everyone else to peak over or around him to see the viewscreen. Okay, maybe Chewie was a bad idea.
Ship’s AI—Cortana. (Minerva seems a little needy. Durandal was a megalomaniac with delusions of godhood. HAL was…well, his picture shows up in unflattering dictionary references.)
Engineer—Well, everyone else is going to say either Scotty, or Kaylee. Obvious, though granted a superb if tough choice…so I’m going to take the dark horse route and say Rhinox. (I don’t think I saw any Transformers, yet…and he seems like one of the few who could actually squeeze onboard the ship.)
There was a good point made about tapping the resource of space anime…but I find, when I think about it, that I haven’t actually watched a lot of space-based sci-fi anime. Huh. Well, at the very least, I can think of—
Navigator—Melfina, bio-android from Outlaw Star. Charming, kind, comes in a conveniant carrying case, and spends her working hours floating naked in a glass tube. In my humble opinion, a futuristic setting just isn’t home unless it has a place where someone is plausibly floating naked in a giant glass tube.
Y’know, come to think of it, there are probably time where I’ll need more than two platoons of Marines to safeguard my planetside interests, or at least provide a larger, more modest capability force. Such as shore patrol, holding actions, or when the Marine Detachment is being held in reserve, or is busy on a strike or boarding mission. Obviously, keeping a lot of such troops on payrol and onboard ship wouldn’t normally be very cost effective, or a good use of space, so a battle droid force that I could basically leave on a rack until needed would seem to be the best option.
However, I don’t really want to spend a lot of money, so I’ll probably just get some of these.
They might not look like much, but unless pitted against a dedicated fighting force, they should be more than a match for your average opponent: when they grab your run-of-the-mill undeveloped natives or space pirates with those metal claws, they won’t break free. Because they’re made of metal, and robots are strong.
I don’t know who this Max Sterling is, but is he, like Wash, both a leaf on the wind and a shish kebob?
Does he come with a hot, ass kicking wife?
:smack:
I can’t believe Rhinox didn’t occur to me. He’s just about the perfect crewperson: uber-competent, utterly reliable, multi-skilled, and infallibly loyal. Yeah, I’d hire him too – as long as whoever I hired as ship’s master understood that Rhinox is to be given ANY DUTY HE WANTS.
Come to think of it, I never answered my own question, did I?
Ship’s Master: Spock
First Mate: Rhinox
Chief Engineer: Kaylee Frye
Chief Pilot: Jadzia Dax (on account of the hotness)
Away team complement: Odo, Zoe Washburn, Kara Thrace, Benjamin Sisko–with the understanding
Chef: William Riker 
He is a leaf on the wind. And his wife kicks ass with a size fifty shoe. Roy’s the shish kebab, though.
Trust me. There’s bits a bit after the main fight worth watching. Zoe? Sorry. You just don’t measure up to Mirya.
Faye is addicted to playing the losing ponies, is always in debt, and is always ready to cut corners on her mates to pay that debt. I don’t want any addicts of any kind on my ship.
Somewhere on my starship crew, I would find a role for Macguyver for those situations where high-tech is not available.
Captain: Picard
First Mate: Mal Reynolds
Pilot: Han Solo
Weapons Officer: Vader
Chief Engineer: Kaylee Frye
Science Officer: Spock
Morale Officer: Jessica Alba
Medical Officer: Beverly Crusher
Security: Macgyver
