Redundancy in design and staffing ensures one will not become redundant.
What is your personal head canon?
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It also ensures that if you suffer battle damage and some casualties, you are not likely to be boned by missing key personnel or be short staffed unless you were "REALLY UNLUCKY" and critical (irreplaceable) crew members with a unique set of skills were lost.
Reminds me of when my company had mass layoffs in the early 1990s due to losing a government contract. We in the graphics dept ended up doing a lot of powerpoints when each department head had to give a presentation about the effects of losing people. One bullet point I remember was "Need to find someone in the building who knows how to work [specific machinery], because we laid off the only qualified operator."
This is why everybody in a department needs to cross train on every position / device so that there is no weak point / lynch pin.
No Exceptions.
Even the (Captain, 1st Officer, 2nd Officer, 3rd Officer) should have different specialities that they came from originally before they were in the command track so that they can be "Backup" for a Chief of ___ department should some of them suffer a casualty or becomes incapacitated.
This way you can have somebody who is senior in those departments, who has Chief of ___ department experience take over in a crisis.
Except we know canonically that Section 31's name comes from the thirty-first section of the Starfleet Charter. Does that mean the other "Section Cells" as you put it are based around the other sections of the Charter?
Canon.
It's more of a play on the number 31 and 5-bit Unsigned Integer which contains 32 values and represents integers 0-31
The Section Cells are similar to how SD-6 or the Alliance of Twelve was split into SD-1 -> SD-12 in seperate cities around the world.
But given how large the UFP is, we could easily split Section 31 into 32 sections with Section 0 being "Over-Sight / Management" to monitor the other Sections (1-31) and that would still only cover a fraction of UFP territory if you were to strictly base it on territory.
But since it's not about physical domain, it's more about a mixture of influence in industry, military, science, government, etc.
There is some physical departments for covering certain areas, but since everything is covert & distributed, it's hard to figure out where one sections coverage ends and the other begins.
Only those at the top management level in Section 0 has a complete picture of all of Section 31's operations. Everybody else is highly focused / specialized in their domain / region / theater of operation
<Joke>Not Nikon, Sony, Pentax, Fuji-Film?</Joke>
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Only the one to the left of me.
The one to the right of me knows what it did...
I mean, this is why you have a reporting chain. Someone always steps up unless too many rungs are knocked out.
Some thoughts on genetic engineering...
Humans
I think many humans living in the 24th century (and some living in the 23rd century) carry a few augment genes. If we take La'an Noonien Singh as an example, Khan is her direct ancestor. She doesn't seem to have any limitations placed upon her in terms of serving in Starfleet and clearly her parents were free to have children. My guess is that there was some sort of amnesty after the Eugenics War and the more cooperate augments were allowed to live out their lives, and pass on their genes. Depending on how many there were, 10 generations could be enough for a good portion of the population to count at least one augment in their family tree. Plus, apparently genetic engineering to fix birth defects is accepted, which would have a positive effect on the overall genome over time as well.
While these enhancements are diluted and not massively visible, it may well be the reason for humans of the 24th century living a bit longer, occasionally seem more durable/fitter, and perhaps also a smarter (calculus for ten year olds comes to mind). Some also suffer from some odd diseases like Shalaft's Syndrome, which is basically super-hearing...
Klingons
My in-universe head-cannon for the Discovery Klingons and the changes we saw through the TOS movies was that Klingons, in their attempts to restore their 'natural' appearance began tampering with their genome some time shortly after the initial infection of the augment virus spread through their population in the 2150s.
The Discovery-era Klingons were something like a 'fashion' that certain Klingons chose for themselves or their children to make them seem like even more fearsome warriors.
Perhaps the changes weren't stable over multiple generations and had to be reverted, or just dropped out of fashion.
However, the 'doubling up' of many Klingon internal systems in the 24th century (as we noted with Mr Worf when he had his spine replaced) could be a legacy of this tampering, since Discovery-era Klingons had a lot of 'doubling' of external features, perhaps they had internal features doubled up as well, and although the appearance went out of fashion, the internal anatomical changes may have remained. It could be the reason why Klingons are anatomically 'over-engineered' (as Pulaski put it) in the late 2300s.
Vulcans
These are a people who are stronger, faster, smarter, more durable and longer lived than the vast majority of other species we encounter. Could they have meddled with genetic engineering early in their history? Could it be responsible for their physical, mental and psychic abilities? Vulcans describe the period before the Time of Awakening as one of wars and strong emotions. Definitely sounds like some of the descriptions we've heard about Human Augments...
TL;DR - genetic engineering is banned by the Federation and Starfleet but probably goes on quietly all the time, Humans, Klingons, Vulcans and Romulans probably all have altered, engineered genes in their genomes.
Humans
I think many humans living in the 24th century (and some living in the 23rd century) carry a few augment genes. If we take La'an Noonien Singh as an example, Khan is her direct ancestor. She doesn't seem to have any limitations placed upon her in terms of serving in Starfleet and clearly her parents were free to have children. My guess is that there was some sort of amnesty after the Eugenics War and the more cooperate augments were allowed to live out their lives, and pass on their genes. Depending on how many there were, 10 generations could be enough for a good portion of the population to count at least one augment in their family tree. Plus, apparently genetic engineering to fix birth defects is accepted, which would have a positive effect on the overall genome over time as well.
While these enhancements are diluted and not massively visible, it may well be the reason for humans of the 24th century living a bit longer, occasionally seem more durable/fitter, and perhaps also a smarter (calculus for ten year olds comes to mind). Some also suffer from some odd diseases like Shalaft's Syndrome, which is basically super-hearing...
Klingons
My in-universe head-cannon for the Discovery Klingons and the changes we saw through the TOS movies was that Klingons, in their attempts to restore their 'natural' appearance began tampering with their genome some time shortly after the initial infection of the augment virus spread through their population in the 2150s.
The Discovery-era Klingons were something like a 'fashion' that certain Klingons chose for themselves or their children to make them seem like even more fearsome warriors.
Perhaps the changes weren't stable over multiple generations and had to be reverted, or just dropped out of fashion.
However, the 'doubling up' of many Klingon internal systems in the 24th century (as we noted with Mr Worf when he had his spine replaced) could be a legacy of this tampering, since Discovery-era Klingons had a lot of 'doubling' of external features, perhaps they had internal features doubled up as well, and although the appearance went out of fashion, the internal anatomical changes may have remained. It could be the reason why Klingons are anatomically 'over-engineered' (as Pulaski put it) in the late 2300s.
Vulcans
These are a people who are stronger, faster, smarter, more durable and longer lived than the vast majority of other species we encounter. Could they have meddled with genetic engineering early in their history? Could it be responsible for their physical, mental and psychic abilities? Vulcans describe the period before the Time of Awakening as one of wars and strong emotions. Definitely sounds like some of the descriptions we've heard about Human Augments...
TL;DR - genetic engineering is banned by the Federation and Starfleet but probably goes on quietly all the time, Humans, Klingons, Vulcans and Romulans probably all have altered, engineered genes in their genomes.
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I mean that statement as a backup for some of the critical department heads.
If your Chief Scientist or Chief Engineer or Chief ___ gets incapacitated or killed, you hopefully have backup from Upper Management who has those skill sets in their previous role.
So a Captain / 1st Officer / 2nd Officer / 3rd Officer who's primary duties are management of the entire ships staff and various duties can and will step up for their older roles that they were previously department heads of on another assignment / billet.
e.g. (Cathryn Janeway came from Sciences and was probably the head/Chief of a Science department before she went command role and attained the Captain's seat).
e.g. (Benjamin Sisko might've had a mind for engineering given his role in the design & development of the Defiant Class).
If Sisko needed to, he could help out with limited amounts of engineering.
etc.
I’ve always harped on about cross-training.The only person who ever took any sort of medical course left on Voyager was Tom Paris?(I know -storytelling reasons..but still).
Field medical and field engineering courses should be required for all security officers ( God knows they suck at actual security work).
Field medical and field engineering courses should be required for all security officers ( God knows they suck at actual security work).
*stares in Shaw
Another PERFECT example.
He was probably a former "Chief of Engineering" at some point in his career before he went "Command Track" and became Captain.
Only the one to the left of me.
The one to the right of me knows what it did...
I mean, this is why you have a reporting chain. Someone always steps up unless too many rungs are knocked out.
The destruction of the Enterprise D is the reason why Geordi has ocular implants in every movie after that, it being the 2nd time someone used his VISOR to make him a weapon. 3rd if you count the fact that Lore had been trying to come up with something for his Descent Borg using them too. He decided enough is enough.
Furthermore, the main reason he hadn't gotten them up til then was because he wasn't sold on their functionality, as per discussions he'd had with both Crusher & Pulaski. So, he worked with Data on designing his own, combining tech from all of the best current designs AND Data's own eyes, (something no one had tried before) that have the capacity to see better than human eyes, but also see in the human visual spectrum, which Geordi hadn't been able to do.
Realizing that these new implants were better than either one of their current eyes, they both upgraded, and now have the same eye technology as one another.
Furthermore, the main reason he hadn't gotten them up til then was because he wasn't sold on their functionality, as per discussions he'd had with both Crusher & Pulaski. So, he worked with Data on designing his own, combining tech from all of the best current designs AND Data's own eyes, (something no one had tried before) that have the capacity to see better than human eyes, but also see in the human visual spectrum, which Geordi hadn't been able to do.
Realizing that these new implants were better than either one of their current eyes, they both upgraded, and now have the same eye technology as one another.
That basically is the exact explanation they gave in the Litverse continuity.
My head canon for the different Klingon appearances is a lot simpler than canon canon:
It's an empire! Made up of a lot of different planets! With different-looking people on each planet! Each different-looking type of Klingon is from a different planet!
Didn't some of the novels use this idea?
Why make it more complicated than that?
But NNOOOoooo.
It's an empire! Made up of a lot of different planets! With different-looking people on each planet! Each different-looking type of Klingon is from a different planet!
Didn't some of the novels use this idea?
Why make it more complicated than that?
But NNOOOoooo.
The Final Reflection
ENT
TOS
TAS
TNG
DS9
VOY
PIC
TOS MOVIES,
TNG MOVIES
Anything else to me is separate and not included within the "prime" universe. Thankfully any reference to SNW, DISC and that weird cartoon.....were at a minimum or nonexistent in Picard ...
What I worry about is that if they do the Legacy show Akiva is gonna get his claws in it and reference the Hell out of DISC and SNW and the cartoon. I'm hoping Mathlas gets to do it. If not it will most likely end up being filed in my head with SNW,DISC and a weird cartoon....
TOS
TAS
TNG
DS9
VOY
PIC
TOS MOVIES,
TNG MOVIES
Anything else to me is separate and not included within the "prime" universe. Thankfully any reference to SNW, DISC and that weird cartoon.....were at a minimum or nonexistent in Picard ...
What I worry about is that if they do the Legacy show Akiva is gonna get his claws in it and reference the Hell out of DISC and SNW and the cartoon. I'm hoping Mathlas gets to do it. If not it will most likely end up being filed in my head with SNW,DISC and a weird cartoon....
What I like about it is not only are they friends, but they literally see eye to eye on everything lol.They see life the same. Lord knows, with their combined skills & tech expertise there may be no one better suited anywhere, to design ocular implants than one of Starfleet's best engineers, who also has experience using visual tech & the android continuing the work of the foremost cyberneticist. It's a given really.
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