Yeah, just try enforcing that rule! :smack:
And the first mate…
Oh what the heck, let’s invite the whole Semen’s Flotilla aboard: Captain Hooker, Whore-ratio Hornyblower, “Long John” Silver, “Poopdeck” Pappy, and Moby Dick the Sperm Whale.
Actually, to expound on my statement, since it did come off as snarky, the bridge team on a warship is made up of enlisted crew members, and one officer, the OOD. The captain doesn’t spend his whole day on the bridge. He(or she) has an office nearby, and checks in, but he(or she) lets everyone else do the jobs they were trained for. I believe that the TOS Enterprise crew complement falls somewhere in the 300’s. That is similar to a Navy Ticonderoga class Cruiser, which has a complement of 30 Officers and 300 Enlisted. I see no reason why a future outer space warship wouldn’t keep the same ratio.
Four hundred and thirty, actually, one-third of which was female. But yeah, your point is well taken!
Smithers: I think women and seamen don’t mix.
Burns: We know what you think.
Plus whenever anything nasty got close, the shields would snap on automatically. A feature Picard probably overrode so as to not hurt the feelings of whatever they met.
I mean no such thing at all. Those were HMS Enterprise. 
To the Galactica crew I would say, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Why do you think the Colonial Fleet was destroyed?
“All ships! Fire all batteries when the Cylons are within 30 microns!”
“Sir…don’t you mean macrons?”
“What?! SHIT!! A*##…”
I suppose the same reason an aircraft doesn’t have a lot of enlisted personnel. A mostly automated starship doesn’t need a lot of deck monkeys. They would mostly be highly trained technicians and specialists.
According to Memory Alpha, there are “crewmen” who are neither non-coms nor officers. Maybe they’re those guys you occasionally see in one-piece jump suits instead of the usual red and black.
My Mom’s oldest brother was killed flying off the USS Enterprise (CV-6) at the start of the War in the Pacific.
The shields didn’t snap on automatically since transporter beams could not be used with the shields on. Jeesh!
Simon Tarses, the half-Vulcan, half-Romulan in “The Drumhead,” was one. He told Captain Picard he enlisted in Starfleet directly without enrolling in the Academy, so he can’t become an officer.
That’s odd, seeing as how Picard promoted Wesley directly to Ensign in recognition of his performance of duties while Acting Ensign…
There wouldn’t be enough elbow room to swing a dead cat, let alone go strolling down a corridor four abreast like they’re off to see the wizard.
Says a cavalry man, I don’t even want to know what the traditions were in his outfit.
Yeah, it definitely helps if you have connections. :mad:
“Usually we ride them into town.” 
Is there any record as to how often Navy captains in the Age of Discovery were on away missions? Both Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook were killed in clashes with natives. From what I remember about William Bligh’s mission to Tahiti to get breadfruit trees so Great Britain would have a cheap source of food for its Caribbean slaves (ultimately the slaves refused to eat it), he didn’t ask the chieftains for breadfruit. He gave them gifts from King George III and when the Tahitians mentioned several reciprocal gifts, told them breadfruit was a good idea. Seems to me he was directly negotiating a deal.