Read Deny thy Father from the lost era mini-series. Paris is an admiral at SF academy, and decides to go back into space after the last semester of 2357 was over. He brings "ensign" Janeway with him.
But we probably shouldn't shout this too loudly, for fear that the "why couldn't Admiral Janeway command Voyager" crowd get hold of it.
But we probably shouldn't shout this too loudly, for fear that the "why couldn't Admiral Janeway command Voyager" crowd get hold of it.
And yet admirals wouldn't exactly go around demoting captains and taking over their commands all the time. I rather like that some of Janeway's controversial decisions during her seven years lost in space may have lead to her being expediently kicked "upstairs" until things blew over.
I also can't imagine too many Voyager crew deliberately staying with the ship, or long-term missions, after seven years, so I have no problem that there are lots of new faces in the Relaunch.
As for Kirk's crew, what really stretched the friendship was ST V. Everyone still together, their careers on hold, to stay with Kirk.
happiest" serving under Kirk and preferred to do so. Vulcan's have a long life and he was in no hurry. He was just still a captain from when he was the in charge of the Enterprise pre-twok when Kirk had once again accepted promotion; while Scotty was a Captain by rank only and never had any desire to command his own ship. He just wanted to run his engine room.
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Well, Styles and Scotty would have been captains on Excelsior together had Scotty not stopped up the drain.
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That doesn't count. When Spock was captain pre-TWOK, he was actually the commanding officer of the Enterprise. He wasn't sharing it with Kirk. Kirk was commandant of the Academy at the time, and sometimes used the Enterprise as a training vessel, but the ship only had one captain and that was Spock. As for Scotty, he wasn't promoted to "captain of engineering" until TSFS, and after that he only served under Kirk unofficially on the Genesis mission and aboard the Bounty. It's only after the trial in TVH that things get wonky with multiple captains on the same ship.
Besides, the individual preferences of the captains in question have nothing to do with it. Starfleet isn't a hobby; officers don't get posted on the basis of what they personally want, but on the basis of where the fleet chooses to assign them. And it's anomalous for Starfleet to assign three captains to a single ship. Maybe it can be excused in Scotty's case, since "captain of engineering" doesn't seem like a command-track posting. But when Kirk was dropped back to captain, realistically he and Spock should've been assigned to command separate vessels, like in the DC Comics run where Spock was put in command of the science vessel Surak.
...my apologies if any of this been refuted whether cannonically or in any of the literature...
