Spoilers Jack Crusher's "Accelerated Training Program"

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Remember also the aftermath of Starfleet's Kelvinverse decimation - same kind of thing - real world experience + natural smarts + need for recruits in the wake of the hemorrhage = cutting corners/expediting commissions/training. Plus, a lot is learn as you go - plenty of opportunities out on the frontier to learn new things.

I'm surprised larger ships don't have Starfleet Academy cadet classes, augmented with stops at bases and distance education (a la pandemic), much as they had schooling for young kids on the Enterprise-D.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

She also has the knowledge of every Starfleet commanding officer ever assimilated. Of course she's been fast tracked.

Are you saying the Borg had leadership training?

 

[Sketcher]

Are you saying the Borg had leadership training?

I mean you'd think, wouldn't you? All that knowledge and experience should be something Seven can draw upon. Application is one thing for sure, but nobody taught her how to do astrometrics or engineering on Voyager, and she was naming species left and right when the crew encountered them. She just knew because of the collective.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

I mean you'd think, wouldn't you? All that knowledge and experience should be something Seven can draw upon. Application is one thing for sure, but nobody taught her how to do astrometrics or engineering on Voyager, and she was naming species left and right when the crew encountered them. She just knew because of the collective.

No, it would be antithetical to a species that had command and control built into its circuitry. Moreover, Seven showed little ability to lead or inspire on Voyager.

 

[CaptainWacky]

They don't need to open hailing frequencies anymore, they can just have Jack "transmit" to any vessel they want to speak to. Saves bags of time.

 

[HotRod]

I don't think Spacedock was actually destroyed, when it's shields fail there are a lot of explosions and it sort of rocks back. At this point I think it's essentially offline and out of the fight, but largely intact. It's also there for the final scenes, and I don't think they could rebuild it that quickly.

Even if it wasn't destroyed, I think we can be pretty certain that it saw casualties on a massive scale.

 

[Nerys Myk]

What grounds did Jack Crusher have for participating in an "accelerated training program"?

Seven of Nine had more grounds to do it than Jack (her expertise with Borg tech, her four years on Voyager, her previous eighteen-year career with the Borg before that).

What special skills does Jack have that would be valuable to Starfleet?

He's actually a clone of James T. Kirk. (The Kelvin one).

 

[arch101]

With Jack’s experience, he’s a real asset. Starfleet was smart to get him.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Nepotism.

Add him to the list!

 

[The Librarian]

The US Army's officer candidate school is a twelve-week program. A year is, if anything, quite long for someone who already has a degree and extensive real-world experience.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Seven of Nine has been in Starfleet for 4 or 5 years and she is already an O6. That's fast.

Yes, but let's not forget the record set in the JJ-verse by cadet Kirk leapfrogging all of Starfleet to the captaincy.

 

[Tuskin38]

I read online that some people have gone straight to Lt. Commander via Civilian experience in real life, but not Commander.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yes, but let's not forget the record set in the JJ-verse by cadet Kirk leapfrogging all of Starfleet to the captaincy.

Lieutenant

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Yes, but let's not forget the record set in the JJ-verse by cadet Kirk leapfrogging all of Starfleet to the captaincy.

Which was total BS. However, difficulty motivating, delegating or inspiring confidence has been a recurring feature of Seven's character. Leadership is her problem.

 

[Tuskin38]

Kirk was lieutenant in ST09 not a Cadet.

 

[GeorgeKirk]

I said this in another thread, but Jack's title is "Special Counselor to the Captain" i.e. "Captain's Assistant", which is the same "title" they gave little Naomi Wildman to make her feel like she was helping.

 

[Tuskin38]

I said this in another thread, but Jack's title is "Special Counselor to the Captain" i.e. "Captain's Assistant", which is the same "title" they gave little Naomi Wildman to make her feel like she was helping.

Except Naomi didn't wear a uniform and hold a rank
Jack is an Ensign.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I said this in another thread, but Jack's title is "Special Counselor to the Captain" i.e. "Captain's Assistant", which is the same "title" they gave little Naomi Wildman to make her feel like she was helping.

Oh that Seven.

 

[ToddCam]

I mean you'd think, wouldn't you? All that knowledge and experience should be something Seven can draw upon. Application is one thing for sure, but nobody taught her how to do astrometrics or engineering on Voyager, and she was naming species left and right when the crew encountered them. She just knew because of the collective.

It stretches credulity to think Seven has the knowledge of every single person who was ever assimilated. General facts, scientific knowledge, I can accept that. A registry of species, even one that numbers in the thousands or millions, makes a lot more sense than the complete experiences of trillions of people. How would she even be able to sift through all that? Wouldn't it mean she had Icheb's memories of his childhood, and Picard's memories until TBoBW? If so, in Season 2 she could have said, "Ah... Picard is having trauma because of the suicide of his mother." Would she then be subject to the same trauma?

 

[Sketcher]

Aren't the memories and experiences buried in her, though? I can't remember the specifics of the Voyager episode involving the Borg Vinculum, but weren't other personalities surfacing in her due to being part of the collective? Maybe not everything, all the time, is accessible to her. But basic Starfleet command regulations and protocols feels like a given. Such as in The Omega Directive when Seven stated she knows likely everything Janeway knows about the Omega particle and Starfleet's directive due to assimilated captains.