Non-commissioned officers in Starfleet

[6079SmithW]

^ A similar suggestion came up in a TrekLit thread some time back, so I'll just shamelessly repeat the comments I made then:

"What's your name, scumbag?"

"Sir! James T. Kirk, sir!"

"T? What's the T stand for? Thumbdick?"

"Sir! No, sir! Tiberius, sir!"

"Tiberius? Well, holy shit. We've got ourselves a fucking Roman emperor here. You know the Romans were only good for two things: orgies and the second finest military force the fucking civilized world has ever seen. You best learn how to fight, Tiberius, because you don't look like you could get laid in a fucking whorehouse with gold-pressed latinum strung around your pencil neck."

"Sir. Yes, sir!"

I can just see a Vulcan recruit getting into a logic debate with the drill instructor over the fallacies of his rant.

 

[Nerys Myk]

^ A similar suggestion came up in a TrekLit thread some time back, so I'll just shamelessly repeat the comments I made then:

"What's your name, scumbag?"

"Sir! James T. Kirk, sir!"

"T? What's the T stand for? Thumbdick?"

"Sir! No, sir! Tiberius, sir!"

"Tiberius? Well, holy shit. We've got ourselves a fucking Roman emperor here. You know the Romans were only good for two things: orgies and the second finest military force the fucking civilized world has ever seen. You best learn how to fight, Tiberius, because you don't look like you could get laid in a fucking whorehouse with gold-pressed latinum strung around your pencil neck."

"Sir. Yes, sir!"

I can just see a Vulcan recruit getting into a logic debate with the drill instructor over the fallacies of his rant.

While doing pushups?

 

[6079SmithW]

^ A similar suggestion came up in a TrekLit thread some time back, so I'll just shamelessly repeat the comments I made then:

I can just see a Vulcan recruit getting into a logic debate with the drill instructor over the fallacies of his rant.

While doing pushups?

Of course! Vulcans are stronger then humans and have more stamina.

 

[Sci]

^ A similar suggestion came up in a TrekLit thread some time back, so I'll just shamelessly repeat the comments I made then:

"What's your name, scumbag?"

"Sir! James T. Kirk, sir!"

"T? What's the T stand for? Thumbdick?"

"Sir! No, sir! Tiberius, sir!"

"Tiberius? Well, holy shit. We've got ourselves a fucking Roman emperor here. You know the Romans were only good for two things: orgies and the second finest military force the fucking civilized world has ever seen. You best learn how to fight, Tiberius, because you don't look like you could get laid in a fucking whorehouse with gold-pressed latinum strung around your pencil neck."

"Sir. Yes, sir!"

Please God, no.

Maybe what's left of the MACOS have that kind of thing, but I'd like to think that Starfleet has come a lot further than that in training it's noncoms/enlisted personnel. And such a thing wouldn't work with the other races in the UFP, either.

"Humor. It is a difficult concept."

Having said that, it's a piece of psychological conditioning that militaries from Roman times to the modern age have used to ensure the kind of discipline necessary to get soldiers to the place where they're able to go into combat and stay functional, so I strongly suspect that there is nothing to "come further" than that sort of bootcamp, at least with species that have psychologies similar to Humans.

 

[Dayton Ward]

^ A similar suggestion came up in a TrekLit thread some time back, so I'll just shamelessly repeat the comments I made then:

"What's your name, scumbag?"

"Sir! James T. Kirk, sir!"

"T? What's the T stand for? Thumbdick?"

"Sir! No, sir! Tiberius, sir!"

"Tiberius? Well, holy shit. We've got ourselves a fucking Roman emperor here. You know the Romans were only good for two things: orgies and the second finest military force the fucking civilized world has ever seen. You best learn how to fight, Tiberius, because you don't look like you could get laid in a fucking whorehouse with gold-pressed latinum strung around your pencil neck."

"Sir. Yes, sir!"

Please God, no.

Maybe what's left of the MACOS have that kind of thing, but I'd like to think that Starfleet has come a lot further than that in training it's noncoms/enlisted personnel. And such a thing wouldn't work with the other races in the UFP, either.

Joke, dude.

 

[Myasishchev]

^ A similar suggestion came up in a TrekLit thread some time back, so I'll just shamelessly repeat the comments I made then:

Please God, no.

Maybe what's left of the MACOS have that kind of thing, but I'd like to think that Starfleet has come a lot further than that in training it's noncoms/enlisted personnel. And such a thing wouldn't work with the other races in the UFP, either.

"Humor. It is a difficult concept."

Having said that, it's a piece of psychological conditioning that militaries from Roman times to the modern age have used to ensure the kind of discipline necessary to get soldiers to the place where they're able to go into combat and stay functional, so I strongly suspect that there is nothing to "come further" than that sort of bootcamp, at least with species that have psychologies similar to Humans.

I want to see a Starfleet crew subjected to decimation for failure. Or at least a flogging.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

^ A similar suggestion came up in a TrekLit thread some time back, so I'll just shamelessly repeat the comments I made then:

Please God, no.

Maybe what's left of the MACOS have that kind of thing, but I'd like to think that Starfleet has come a lot further than that in training it's noncoms/enlisted personnel. And such a thing wouldn't work with the other races in the UFP, either.

"Humor. It is a difficult concept."

Having said that, it's a piece of psychological conditioning that militaries from Roman times to the modern age have used to ensure the kind of discipline necessary to get soldiers to the place where they're able to go into combat and stay functional, so I strongly suspect that there is nothing to "come further" than that sort of bootcamp, at least with species that have psychologies similar to Humans.

^ A similar suggestion came up in a TrekLit thread some time back, so I'll just shamelessly repeat the comments I made then:

Please God, no.

Maybe what's left of the MACOS have that kind of thing, but I'd like to think that Starfleet has come a lot further than that in training it's noncoms/enlisted personnel. And such a thing wouldn't work with the other races in the UFP, either.

Joke, dude.

Okay, sorry.

 

[Dayton Ward]

^ Cool.

Now get on your face and give me 50!!!!!!

 

[T'Girl]

That or Sam Jackson...

I can just see a Vulcan recruit getting into a logic debate with the drill instructor over the fallacies of his rant.

English, do you speak it motherfukker ?

Drill sergeant, I have never engaged in sexual congress with ...

You eye-balling me, vulcan ?

Drill sergeant, the brim of your hat is touching my forehead.

Grrrrrrrr

Drill sergeant, the ocular muscles of your left eye have begun to twitch.

`

 

[apenpaap]

A Tellarite cadet would probably consider that drill sergeant a really nice guy, and counterinsult him for a bit to return the favour.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

A Tellarite cadet would probably consider that drill sergeant a really nice guy, and counterinsult him for a bit to return the favour.

But then he would get his ass kicked by the DI, yelled at, and then forced to do laps around the quad.

What would a Vulcan DI be like, I wonder? He/she would most likely have to be half-human in order to act like the type of DI mentioned here.

 

[Chaos Descending]

I imagine that Vulcan recruits would have Vulcan drill instructors.

 

[Mysterion]

I imagine that Vulcan recruits would have Vulcan drill instructors.

Why? Starfleet doesn't seem to be segregating crews on ships so it would make sense to integrate trainees/recruits as early as possible to get them used to a mixed-species working environment.