Operations Officer is a real position in the US military, but we never see Data doing it. Perhaps he is managing the computer resources of the ship, which basically makes him an operating system kernel.
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I'd argue he's more like a Process/Thread Director than the OS Kernel.
That's more of a very specific task that the Ships Computer/OS already does.
Data doesn't need to waste CPU Cycles focusing on that grunt level OS work.
Working in concert with the Chief Technobabble Officer, Geordi.I thought he was Chief Exposition Officer
No wonder they were best friends.
Who was the asshole from “Arsenal of Freedom” who tried to take command from LaForge? I always thought it was Lynch.
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Argyle was the best 1701-D chief engineer who wasn't Geordi.
IMO, it was a missed opportunity in AGT not to bring Argyle back to engineering, if even just for a scene or two.
Yes. Sewers started being put in to cities in the 19th century which helped a lot bringing down the rate of cholera and typhoid.
Total speculation, but maybe the actor really wanted to make an impression and get called back, so he ad libbed it? Or the writers likewise wanted to create a regular, but it didn’t pan out? It does otherwise seem an odd emphasis.
I liked what’s-her-name who worked with him that one time; she seemed appropriately crusty.
I doubt an ad-lib would have been tolerated, especially when it's his entire character.
They were just auditioning various engineers during that season, but no one stuck.
The old story (which is probably apocryphal) is that Biff Yeager tried to get a fan campaign to make Argyle the permanent engineer going at a convention. The producers did not appreciate an actor lobbying in that way, and he was never asked back as a result.
They didn't even have a chief engineer in the main cast in season 1. They clearly did not anticipate how important technobabble would become to the show in future years.
I agree. I did like seeing that actor years later in a similar role on "Seaquest."
The early concept of TNG was "technology unchained": the ship would be so powerful and intelligent that it would run itself with minimal intervention from the crew.
The early bridge sketches are basically a conference lounge.
And look how far we veered from that with the real TNG.
Which is why they made Geordi the chief engineer in season 2, correcting that early mistake.
IIRC, the actor got himself blackballed after engineering a letter writing campaign to make him the main engineer. Unfortunately, the letters began to arrive at the studio before his episode aired.
Heck I would have hired him because of that. The guy really went all out to get that job.
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