...location of gradaution seems to me more important than location of enrolment and thus more likely to end on a personel file.
Unless there only
was one possible location of graduation, in which case one could list information of secondary worth such as location of enrolment.
Anyway, I'm just thinking it would be impossible to train enough people at just one Academy facility
But for all we know, the entire city of San Francisco is this one facility, processing hundreds of thousands if not millions of students at a time. Today, there are several universities with a similar number of attendees, even if they don't have a single physical campus.
The only real problems with this assumption are that our heroes would be a tad too messianic if they all were among the top ten graduates of their thousands-strong course (we know Riker was the eighth in his class, but happily enough we don't seem to know similar things about the others so he could be a unique Wunderkind) - and that something strange would be going on if they always knew the
other graduates they stumble onto while working in deep space (but generally speaking, they
don't know personally the skipper of the random starship they meet).
We certainly know that engineers, scientists and medical doctors can do their academic training elsewhere (Troi, Spock, McCoy etc).
Do we? We only ever hear that Troi attended the University of Betazed; the other two have never clearly been mentioned as having studied outside Starfleet Academy. Granted, schools outside SFA are known to
exist. But if you speculate that Starfleet doctors get their medical training outside SFA, there's no good proof for it yet. We have no indication that Crusher, Pulaski or Bashir studied outside SFA; we hear that McCoy was present at Ole Miss at one point, but whether as a student or perhaps as a lecturer is left unmentioned.
Love the idea that the many crew members in TOS walking the corridors of the E - going god knows where - could of been aliens! Most of the aliens depicted were human in appearance. Nicely takes care of never seeing any gays on the show too.
It would have been nice to see a few more "alien humans" roaming the corridors... In TOS, we had humans who were "alien" in that they were mad scientists or luddite farmers, but there could be more variety than that. A few religious ferverts, a couple of people who hold their animal or machine companions in high esteem, folks who remove their digestive tracts and replace them with ethically acceptable substitutes, people who totally eschew life in favor of holo-life - people who'd strike us as extremely odd and perhaps insane,
but wouldn't be considered that by our heroes, because weird is the norm in the 24th century.
Timo Saloniemi
However, if more women feature regularly, those kinds of aberrant scenes probably wont be so noticeable.
Whoops missed this reply first time round! Essentially gender irrelevant is how I would want to see them cast their characters. Unless they want the character to be a love interest for a main character and they don't want every character to be multi-sexual! I don't know why they can't just flip a coin when it comes down to casting.
