Why would you need to replace Chekov as navigatoins officer, wouldn't he be able to fill that position, wasn't he also a science officer on the Enterprise?
JDW
JDW
A Pavel Chekov?
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Which has nothing to do with how old Captain Terrell was. Actors often play characters who are older or younger than they are.
Grace Lee Whitney won her ST VI cameo via a poll taken at a large US ST convention. The audience was asked to suggest TOS character names so that the actors could be approached to play Excelsior's as yet unidentified communications officer. Rand won! (IIRC, the runner up was Kevin Thomas Riley, aka Bruce Hyde.)
Grace ended up losing one of her scenes to Christian Slater, though (ie. waking Sulu with an urgent message). When Slater mentioned his desire to cameo in ST VI, it really helped that his mother, Mary Jo Slater, was the person in charge of casting! He was handed one of Rand's scenes.
Picard was 59 at the time of "Encounter at Farpoint," while Stewart was only 47 when they filmed the episode.
If Rand wanted to move from being a yeoman to an officer wouldn't she have to take a test of some kind?
Even though Troi was posted as a Commander,(It is Commander!?) what was the test she took in an episode of TNG?
JDW
Even though Troi was posted as a Commander,(It is Commander!?) what was the test she took in an episode of TNG?
JDW
Yeoman was a job, not a rank. Rand was basically the Captain's secretary.
She had no sleeve stripes in her TOS appearances, so whether she held the commissioned rank of Ensign or was enlisted is a mystery. Ignoring the error with her having the rank of Commander in the spacedock lounge in The Search for Spock, her progression from TMP (transporter chief with the rank of Chief Petty Officer) to TUC (Lt. J.G.) suggests she either attended Starfleet Academy later in life, or was somehow promoted up from the enlisted to the commissioned ranks.
She had no sleeve stripes in her TOS appearances, so whether she held the commissioned rank of Ensign or was enlisted is a mystery. Ignoring the error with her having the rank of Commander in the spacedock lounge in The Search for Spock, her progression from TMP (transporter chief with the rank of Chief Petty Officer) to TUC (Lt. J.G.) suggests she either attended Starfleet Academy later in life, or was somehow promoted up from the enlisted to the commissioned ranks.
Yes, but in the real world a yeoman is an *enlisted* job, so it seems reasonable to assume that she was enlisted during TOS, especially since--as you note--she held an enlisted rank in TMP.
Yeah, okay, I wasn't thinking terribly clearly when I was writing all that out. But I did get the point across: yeoman ≠ rank. 
Rand could've recieved a field commission at some point!
JDW
JDW
I could see where she (Rand) had been accepted to OCS at some point, and then upon graduation, TPTB gave her the rank that someone of her age (not necessarily experience) would basically have... ergo, Commander.
(Similar to what happens to some doctors, nurses, etc., in the USN and/or USPHS today in RL.)
Cheers,
-CM-
Rand was a Lt. J.G. in TUC. Her being a Lt. Commander was a continuity error introduced in "Flashback."
Thank you, biggles. 
I don't know what her rank was in TVH, but since she was wearing a jumpsuit, that meant she was still a non-com at the time.
As a LTJG, her going OCS and then being given a rank to show her experience would make even more sense, if you use a RL example. The number of LCDR's and CDR's is fixed, so those ranks don't come easily.
Thanks for correcting me, btw. Been a while since I last watched TUC. Have to fix that problem...
Cheers,
-CM-
Just checked Memory Beta (the non-canon Trek wiki) and it states that Terrell has a birth year of 2233, making him 12 years older than Chekov. Just thought I'd throw that in.
