Crewmember Children on the Enterprise?
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I think the panspermia theory was a bit less straightforward originally...
I guess so. Or more exactly, they might be trying to find out if travel past the energy barrier was viable at all. Kirk even explicitly says he has to brave the barrier:
The existence of the barrier itself doesn't seem to come as a surprise for our heroes. Only its nature, as revealed by closer scanning, raises eyebrows.
Timo Saloniemi
I guess so. Or more exactly, they might be trying to find out if travel past the energy barrier was viable at all. Kirk even explicitly says he has to brave the barrier:
The existence of the barrier itself doesn't seem to come as a surprise for our heroes. Only its nature, as revealed by closer scanning, raises eyebrows.
Timo Saloniemi
darkwing_duck1
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On the OT, canon dialogue seems to indicate that the woman would leave the service upon marriage/pregnancy.
Tomlinson tells his fiance when she says he's not "off her hook" yet: "Until I do [marry her], I'm still your superior officer..." indicating that at least she would be stepping down from her posting.
McCoy in another ep says (this time of Carolyn Palalmas): "Someday the right man will come along and there she'll go...out of the service..."
I could see families being posted to starbases (at least planetside ones), but not on ships of that era.
Tomlinson tells his fiance when she says he's not "off her hook" yet: "Until I do [marry her], I'm still your superior officer..." indicating that at least she would be stepping down from her posting.
McCoy in another ep says (this time of Carolyn Palalmas): "Someday the right man will come along and there she'll go...out of the service..."
I could see families being posted to starbases (at least planetside ones), but not on ships of that era.
Why would it be era-specific, though?
Starships of every Trek century are capable of supporting passengers, civilian specialists and all sort of basically idle people such as ship's historians. Just because our TOS heroes are single, divorcees or widowers doesn't mean there wouldn't be married heroes there as well - and if they are married to people qualifying for a shipboard role, then they'd probably want to spend time together.
Whether Starfleet would allow married couples, or siblings, or parents and children, to serve together is a different matter. In the TNG era, this was never a problem unless the personnel themselves decided it would be. In TOS, the issue never arose.
Or then simply gaining in influence, so that the rank difference would no longer protect Tomlinson from Martine's orders, demands and whims.
The Palamas example is a better one. Even there, though, we could well argue that a science specialist would be likely to marry from her area of expertise, and leave Starfleet because her husband would be a civilian. McCoy might well have been aware of Palamas' general career plans...
Timo Saloniemi
Starships of every Trek century are capable of supporting passengers, civilian specialists and all sort of basically idle people such as ship's historians. Just because our TOS heroes are single, divorcees or widowers doesn't mean there wouldn't be married heroes there as well - and if they are married to people qualifying for a shipboard role, then they'd probably want to spend time together.
Whether Starfleet would allow married couples, or siblings, or parents and children, to serve together is a different matter. In the TNG era, this was never a problem unless the personnel themselves decided it would be. In TOS, the issue never arose.
Or then simply gaining in influence, so that the rank difference would no longer protect Tomlinson from Martine's orders, demands and whims.
The Palamas example is a better one. Even there, though, we could well argue that a science specialist would be likely to marry from her area of expertise, and leave Starfleet because her husband would be a civilian. McCoy might well have been aware of Palamas' general career plans...
Timo Saloniemi
darkwing_duck1
Vice Admiral
Starships of that era required large operational crews. There simply would not be room for children on them. I could see married personnel being allowed to cohabit though, as long as pregnancy did not become an issue.
"Tommy, don't touch that!"
"WARNING! WARP CORE OVERLOAD IN FIVE MINUTES!"
"Oops. Sowwy, Mommy."
"WARNING! WARP CORE OVERLOAD IN FIVE MINUTES!"
"Oops. Sowwy, Mommy."
DS9 made up for it. Sisko "forgot" and Kassidy fell pregnant.
There's a lesson to be learned here.
What do you call a woman who depends on the reliability of a male to ensure the birth control is taken care of?
A mother.
Robert
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