I just watched "Lower Decks" for the first time

[indolover]

it was a good episode, but the fact that Ensigns are lowest of the low (so to speak) on a starship is bull. Officers command, that's their purpose. I know it's Trek, and not meant to be fully representative of a real life navy (I often think Starfleet is portrayed as the US Navy in space), the lowest positions on a naval vessel would not be held by officers. The command crew (CO, XO, etc.), yes, and their assistants.

 

[Nick086]

it was a good episode, but the fact that Ensigns are lowest of the low (so to speak) on a starship is bull. Officers command, that's their purpose. I know it's Trek, and not meant to be fully representative of a real life navy (I often think Starfleet is portrayed as the US Navy in space), the lowest positions on a naval vessel would not be held by officers. The command crew (CO, XO, etc.), yes, and their assistants.

Ensigns were the lowest of the officer's ranks, but they weren't the lowest rank in Starfleet which was the rank of Crewman. We never really saw how they did things on the ship. Would it be the same things a sailor would do back in the Navy?

 

[sbk1234]

The reason we didn't see the enlisted too much in Trek, was they were busy below decks shoveling coal into these HUGE furnaces to keep the warp engines going....

 

[Nick086]

The reason we didn't see the enlisted too much in Trek, was they were busy below decks shoveling coal into these HUGE furnaces to keep the warp engines going....

ahhh just like what my grandpappy did back when he was in the Navy.

 

[FordSVT]

Sito WAS a good character. I can't imagine anything pleasant happening to her if she were captured by the Cardassians, though.

Taurik appears in TrekLit -- he's still onboard the Enterprise in Losing the Peace.I think he's a lieutenant now. He also appeared in John Vornholt's Dominion War TNG books, one of which is Tunnel through the Stars.

Yup, Taurik is a fairly regular character in the post-Dominion War novels "A Time to....". I like him, he's supposed to be a Vulcan that understands the human sense of humour and often displays it (in a very Vulcan way, of course).