Buried Age and Families on Starships (Destiny, Titan spoiler)

[dispatcher812]

I just finished Buried Age and while I enjoyed the book, I think the ending could have used alittle more. At least in regrards to the Ariel and her people. (for the life of me I can't remember how to spell the race.) I did Like how Christopher Bennett finished with how Picard chose his crew and why. That was a great insight. I also like how he included the other characters to show what they were doing prior to Enterprise.

Ok, my question is, in the book it mentions that the Enterprise could be on a deep space mission for 15 years. Thats the reason why Families were put on starships. With this being the Titan's same mission profile, are there families as well on Titan besides Tuvoks wife and Will and Deanna's baby? it has been a while since I read the first Titan book and Can't remember. And isn't Titan ALOT smaller the Enterprise D?

 

[Jim Johnson]

are there families as well on Titan besides Tuvoks wife and Will and Deanna's baby? it has been a while since I read the first Titan book and Can't remember. And isn't Titan ALOT smaller the Enterprise D?

I just happen to be rereading Taking Wing now and there are indeed families on board the Titan. I think a near direct reference is "not as many as the Enterprise-D" but there are some.

And yes, the Titan is smaller than the Ent-D, somewhere between the size of the Intrepid-class and the old Ambassador-class, if I remember the reference right.

 

[dispatcher812]

Jim Johnson,

Thank you, what great timing.

 

[Christopher]

I just finished Buried Age and while I enjoyed the book, I think the ending could have used alittle more. At least in regrards to the Ariel and her people. (for the life of me I can't remember how to spell the race.) I did Like how Christopher Bennett finished with how Picard chose his crew and why. That was a great insight. I also like how he included the other characters to show what they were doing prior to Enterprise.

Thanks!

Ok, my question is, in the book it mentions that the Enterprise could be on a deep space mission for 15 years. Thats the reason why Families were put on starships. With this being the Titan's same mission profile, are there families as well on Titan besides Tuvoks wife and Will and Deanna's baby? it has been a while since I read the first Titan book and Can't remember. And isn't Titan ALOT smaller the Enterprise D?

Titan is a leaner ship, with only a 350-person capacity, about a third that of a Galaxy-class starship. But there are a few families. So far, we know of Riker & Troi, Tuvok & T'Pel, Olivia and Axel Bolaji and their baby Totyarguil, and Alyssa Ogawa and her son Noah. (And the Rossini brothers, but I don't think that really counts.) There are also several civilians in the crew besides T'Pel and the children; the ones we know of are the bartender Scot Bishop-Walker, the cook Ebriscentil, and the night-shift galley manager Chordys. And as of Over a Torrent Sea, only 70 or so members of the current crew (not counting departed and deceased personnel) have been established -- a mere 20 percent of the whole. So there could be other families aboard that we haven't met yet, and they might even include some known but undeveloped characters.

 

[Trent Roman]

Do I recall incorrectly in that the Ferengi geologist isn't Starfleet?

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Christopher]

Bralik is a Starfleet Chief Petty Officer, like O'Brien. Enlisted rather than an Academy grad, but in Starfleet nonetheless.

 

[Trent Roman]

Ah, thank you. I keep getting confused about enlisted personel and the differences in status vis-à-vis officers.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[nx1701g]

Speaking of Bralik has she appeared in any of the more recent books?

 

[Christopher]

I don't recall if Bralik is in Destiny, but she has a presence in Over a Torrent Sea.

 

[dispatcher812]

Christopher,

Thanks again, I forgot about those others.

 

[Annorax]

Bralik is a Starfleet Chief Petty Officer, like O'Brien. Enlisted rather than an Academy grad, but in Starfleet nonetheless.

I don't remember seeing this mentioned in any of the novels. I'd always read and interpreted Bralik as a civilian specialist, someone who couldn't have been in Starfleet long enough to become an NCO the way O'Brien did. Did I miss it, or is it something that'll be established in something yet to be released?

 

[Claudia]

With this being the Titan's same mission profile, are there families as well on Titan besides Tuvoks wife and Will and Deanna's baby?

Tuvok's wife? Since when has she been on board? Since the end of Destiny? Because I remember reading of her early on in Titan, then in Destiny - but not inbetween...

Oh selective memory of mine...

 

[Saumer]

She came on board at the end of Red King because Tuvok didn't want to be seperated from her again after what happened with Voyager. Kind of makes sense when you consider that the Titan's mission is deep-space exploration. I'm sure it was mentioned somewhere about T'Pel becoming a sickbay assistant or something along that line?

 

[Turbo]

^ Yes, in Orion's Hounds, and I'm sure she was in that book for more than a mention as well.

 

[Christopher]

I don't remember seeing this mentioned in any of the novels. I'd always read and interpreted Bralik as a civilian specialist, someone who couldn't have been in Starfleet long enough to become an NCO the way O'Brien did. Did I miss it, or is it something that'll be established in something yet to be released?

It was, quite literally, the first thing ever mentioned about the character. In Bralik's debut appearance on p. 32 of Taking Wing, she is introduced as "Chief Bralik, the noncom Ferengi geologist." However, she is subsequently referred to as "Dr. Bralik" on a number of occasions, which must be the source of the confusion. People have made the same assumption about Ra-Havreii: that because he's normally addressed as "Doctor" rather than by a rank, he must be a civilian. Which is odd given the precedents of Dr. McCoy, Dr. Crusher, Dr. Bashir, etc.

She came on board at the end of Red King because Tuvok didn't want to be seperated from her again after what happened with Voyager. Kind of makes sense when you consider that the Titan's mission is deep-space exploration. I'm sure it was mentioned somewhere about T'Pel becoming a sickbay assistant or something along that line?

T'Pel is a sickbay assistant from the end of Orion's Hounds onward, but her main responsibility is taking care of the ship's children, Noah Powell and Totyarguil Bolaji.

 

[KRAD]

It was, quite literally, the first thing ever mentioned about the character. In Bralik's debut appearance on p. 32 of Taking Wing, she is introduced as "Chief Bralik, the noncom Ferengi geologist." However, she is subsequently referred to as "Dr. Bralik" on a number of occasions, which must be the source of the confusion. People have made the same assumption about Ra-Havreii: that because he's normally addressed as "Doctor" rather than by a rank, he must be a civilian. Which is odd given the precedents of Dr. McCoy, Dr. Crusher, Dr. Bashir, etc.

Not to mention Dr. Faulwell and Dr. Abramowitz on the da Vinci.

 

[JD]

I don't recall if Bralik is in Destiny, but she has a presence in Over a Torrent Sea.

Cool, I've been hoping she'd pop back up somewhere.

I don't remember seeing this mentioned in any of the novels. I'd always read and interpreted Bralik as a civilian specialist, someone who couldn't have been in Starfleet long enough to become an NCO the way O'Brien did. Did I miss it, or is it something that'll be established in something yet to be released?

It was, quite literally, the first thing ever mentioned about the character. In Bralik's debut appearance on p. 32 of Taking Wing, she is introduced as "Chief Bralik, the noncom Ferengi geologist." However, she is subsequently referred to as "Dr. Bralik" on a number of occasions, which must be the source of the confusion. People have made the same assumption about Ra-Havreii: that because he's normally addressed as "Doctor" rather than by a rank, he must be a civilian. Which is odd given the precedents of Dr. McCoy, Dr. Crusher, Dr. Bashir, etc.

Hmm, so do we know yet what his rank is?

 

[Turbo]

IIRC, he was a Commander or Lt. Commander.

 

[Christopher]

If you're talking about Ra-Havreii, he's a full commander. See the crew roster in the back of the Destiny volumes.

 

[JD]

Oh, I apparently misread you're post. For some reason I saw the R and thought it was Ree. He was who I was actually asking about.