Yes, but still none of that is TOS.
Who is the Enterprise security chief?
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Yes, but still none of that is TOS.
I think that's a misunderstanding from the script. Number One is a lieutenant and has a rank stripe on her sleeve, Colt doesn't have a stripe. Still, as people say, no reason why she could not be a security lieutenant in the new timeline.
Rand's rank has been all over the place. She had no defined rank in TOS but, assuming the Captain's Yeoman is quite a senior non-com position, she was an experienced crewman in her thirties, and she bosses around some junior crew, I would guess she's some kind of petty officer. The fact that she is a CPO a couple of years later in TMP supports this assumption.
I don't want them to be too elitist though. A few junior non-coms among the cast is a good thing. Not all the characters need to be senior officers.
Considering the TOS Enterprise had a crew of 430+, he could have been a member of the crew doing one of any number of things during the events of Space Seed, not necessarily security.
Given that fact that he implied in TWoK that he WAS part of the crew back then in some unspecified capacity, I have no reason to doubt that he was one of the 430 crew members in Space Seed.
Of course there's the old thing that if you watch TOS by stardate order, Chekov's first appearance in "Catspaw" actually comes before "Space Seed."
Security chiefs in TOS were like chief engineers during TNG first season. Too many one offs.
Personally I would have liked a chief petty officer to have had the job like both the Royal Navy and US Navy, known as a Master at Arms.
Star Fleet always seems top heavy with officers, too many chiefs and not enough indians.
Personally I would have liked a chief petty officer to have had the job like both the Royal Navy and US Navy, known as a Master at Arms.
Star Fleet always seems top heavy with officers, too many chiefs and not enough indians.
That's a bit different. The Enterprise had mulitple chief engineers in TNG's first season. Riker even introduces one of them (Argyle?) as "one of our chief engineers" making it clear there were others who held the position.
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My bet is that she is the new Janice Rand.
IIRC, the chief engineer wasn't originally going to be a prominent character as Scotty had been and would be less than a reoccurring role (heck, they had to write in a scene involving engineering in "Encounter At Farpoint" or otherwise there wouldn't have been money to build the set in later episodes).
In-universe, though, I like to think the Enterprise had several chief engineers that were familiarizing themselves with the Galaxy-class systems before moving onto their own vessels (LaForge got the Enterprise gig at Picard's request, IMO).
Abrams and his Cohorts have said she's playing a new character. So she won't be Rand.
They used the rather strange term, "new to canon" - which makes me think that, like George and Winona Kirk, she'll be playing a character from the novels. Or possibly from the ongoing nuTrek comic.
Well, not the comic, anyway. That hasn't introduced any new characters.
And the point still stands, Rand is not "new to canon."
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