I rented some TNG DVDs and was disappointed that when I turned it up on the surround system, I could hear the wooden set floors creaking when the actors walked. The ship is supposed to be made of duranium.
Thomas? 
Thanks for the laugh! I heard that line in my head in Picard’s voice, and I’m still chuckling…
I read a book on the Great White Fleet. (The World Cruise of the U.S. Battlefleet in 1907-1908.)
It was initially placed under the command of the CiC, North Atlantic Fleet, Rear Admiral Robley Evans. Robley D. Evans - Wikipedia He was 60 years old, and a veteran of the freakin’ Civil War. He was replaced when the fleet reached San Francisco (due to ill health) by Rear Admiral Sperry (who was also 60).
At that time, it seems as if someone had to die (of old age) in order for others to get promotions.
And if Ens. Ro doesn’t want to go to prison, she can simply walk away. Oh, no. She couldn’t. And if Picard doesn’t want to let Jellico take over command, he can simply decline. Oh, no. He couldn’t. And if Geordi didn’t want to go to his doom in Troi’s command-qualification test, he can just ask for a different role. Oh, no. He couldn’t.
There’s no reference to conscription, so I’d agree it’s an all-volunteer force, but Starfleet is a quasi-military organization with ranks, a chain of command, and life-or-death authority over those who serve in it. It’s not the SCA.
I think the Enterprise was too snooty to have NCOs on board. Thus everyone had to be an officer. But they liked O’Brien enough that they gave him Lt. pips and told him to keep quiet about it. After a few years most of the snooty people had been killed off on away missions and it became okay for O’Brien to be an NCO again.
My understanding is that TNG will have to be remastered before it can be released on Blu-Ray. Something to do with the series being shot on film but the effects being added on video. In any case, there is a lot of detailed work needed in order for TNG to make the cut for HiDef.
Well, he didn’t say what it was an example of…
Except that it’s possible to be AWOL, and Starfleet officers have the authorityto arrest and incarcerate civilians and aliens as well as persons in their own ranks, and frequently they have to kill people.
Not to mention the initial experiementation with CGI spaceships that was…well…bad.
Depends on the kingdom.
Awesome. That is now added to my personal head canon.
No, it’s where Ensigns go to die.
If they wear Red Shirts.
Andf join the landing party.
Was it three? I only remember 1 (the first?) after the first Borg encounter and Wolf 359. They had the hot blond snooty chick who showed up and challenged his authority, then Picard got snatched and Riker was acting captain, and then at the end he had the “option” to go be a captain elsewhere and declined: “I still have a lot to learn here from you”. And blond chick went bye-bye (can’t remember, did she die or just get transferred?).
People who’ve actually been in a navy all take this highly suspect, and think he should have been transferred to be first officer on some garbage scow, or cruise ship, or something. Here’s the fleet just been massacred, desperately needing qualified officers, and he just demonstrated some high capability in the role of captain. And yet he’s not ready? So who are they going to promote to captain, the janitor? That leutenant (j.g.) from supply? Okay, maybe they were also short a few ships. But that can get remedied.
Yeah, there’s no good in-story explanation. “It didn’t happen that way. Shut up.” I think it’s an artifact of TOS where the main characters were officers (exept Rand, and perhaps Nurse Chapel). It created the impression that Star Trek didn’t have enlisted personnel. So Next Gen seemed to think everyone was an officer, and it wasn’t until later someone realized they were calling O’Brien “Transporter Chief”, and “Chief” is an NCO position in our Navy, so obviously he must be an NCO rather than a leutenant. Oops.
:rolleyes:
The red shirts only get singled out for mass execution in the original series. Geez.
(In TNG and DS9, it’s the Gold Shirts who get killed off in vast numbers)
Actually, she rattled off a list of three commands Riker had been offered up to that point (right before Wolf 359). Incidentally, all three of those ships were blasted to pieces at Wolf 359, as they discovered later, so ultimately, declining those commands may have been beneficial for his career regardless.
EDIT: And it’s been a while since I’ve seen that episode, but Commander “Hot Blonde Snooty Chick” Shelby (not everybody gets cool short nicknames like “Chief”, “Goldeneyes”, and “Wrinkles”) got transferred elsewhere at the end of the episode, due to the massive gutting the Officer Corps had taken at Wolf 359. I don’t recall if she was going to be the First Officer on another ship or if she was getting a center chair or a staff job or what.
No wonder Starfleet spends so much time getting its collective ass whipped in TNG and DS9. If you don’t promote the best, chances are that you won’t go very far.
I don’t recall much ass-whipping happening to the Feds in TNG, Wolf 359 aside. They’ve won a few standoffs by getting the Romulans or Cardassians to blink first though.
DS9, there were a more occasions where they were getting the ugly end of the stick, but a lot of that was just a numbers game. The Dominion had a redunkulous amount of ships and soldiers to throw at them (they eventually ended up teaming up with the Romulans to balance things out again)
In the novels, Shelby did indeed eventually get her own ship: New Frontier characters | Memory Alpha | Fandom
Riker turned down command of the Drake, the Aries and the Melbourne before accepting command of the Titan: William T. Riker | Memory Alpha | Fandom. Of the four, only the Melbourne was destroyed at Wolf 359; the Drake had been earlier destroyed at Minos.
And evidently he turned down the Voyager as well.
If you believe Q.