Finally Starting "New Frontier" - 10 years later!
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In Australian schools, we have "the Executive", which means the Principal, Deputy Principal and perhaps several Executive Teachers, all of whom supervise other staff members. (These days, those Executive Teachers are called Assistant Principals. My school has four of them. Some schools have two Deputies.) So I had no problem with a starship having a Captain, a First Officer and an Executive Officer.
I think we first heard the term in Trek in "The Motion Picture". Decker was Captain but there was no indication that a First Officer had been selected yet. Kirk essentially demoted Decker and referred to him as an "Executive Officer", who ends up doubling as Science Officer until Spock turns up. We don't know if it was normal for all First Officers to have responsibility for a particular bridge station.
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I think we first heard the term in Trek in "The Motion Picture". Decker was Captain but there was no indication that a First Officer had been selected yet. Kirk essentially demoted Decker and referred to him as an "Executive Officer", who ends up doubling as Science Officer until Spock turns up. We don't know if it was normal for all First Officers to have responsibility for a particular bridge station.
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Trek's ranks have always been silly. Harry was Voyager's night shift captain", the novels gave Enterprise NX-01 a night shift captain too and there was even one in Star Trek Beyond too but she never gets acknowledged as such outside the script.
Wait. What. Really? Harry worked the night shift, and the day shift too when Janeway and Chakotay are on the bridge? That's like sixteen solid hours. Does the guy get any sleep and/or downtime?
Voyager could be on a shorter shift rotation, where everyone is on duty for two separate periods every day, in which case I suppose Harry would just be waking up and going to sleep a shift earlier than everyone higher-up in the org chart. There'd be the "day shift" when all the A-players are at their main stations, and the "night shift," when most of the crew is off, and then in-between there are three or four shifts where Janeway has the conn and Chakotay is on his off-time, and vice-versa, plus maybe another "evening" shift where Tuvok was in charge. Its also more complicated with these over-automated 24th century ships, where it's been implied, if not stated outright, that they require a lot less attention to operate day-to-day, so the average Starfleet officer probably doesn't spend as much time at "work" as we'd expect (for instance, everyone having time for very in-depth hobbies, like Picard being able to keep up with professional developments in archeology despite it having nothing to do with his actual job, while still having time for reading fiction, playing holonovels, being in the ship's drama club, and so on), so they probably don't operate on anything like the rather hellish real-world six hours on, six hours off sea watch schedule.
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