General Trek Questions and Observations
- Thread starter The Old Mixer
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Good question. Doesn't sound like it'd be a command crew decision. I bet it has to do with rank/work location, so maybe your duty officer?
Who does it on a navy ship?
Quartermaster?
Sounds like one particular fellow (no names) should rethink the scope of this whole "MAGA" business.
Yeah, there's only one speficic portion of America he seems to want to make "great again".
Gah! *Specific. (I can't edit.)
For the USN, on the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) In the 70s and 80s, For Enlisted E1-E6, Departments are assigned berthing compartments by the XO, he can assign the task to someone else if he chooses. The departments each decide how their own divisions are berthed.
USN Engineering Department (for example) Enlisted E1-E6 were in assigned berthing compartments and separated by Division (Div). A Div, E Div, R Div, M Div were in separate 160-180 man birthing compartments (bunks stacked 3 high).
All ships company E7-E9 (Chief, Sr. Chief, Master Chief) were in a 100 man compartment bunks stacked 2 high in Chief's berthing compartment.
Commissioned and Warrant Officers: W2-W4 and Division Officers were up to 8 men in a stateroom, Assistant Department Heads had 2 man state rooms, Department Heads and the XO had an individual state room. The CO had an in-port deployed state room that took up as much space as a 180 man E1-E6 birthing and an at-sea deployed smaller room just off the bridge.
When you report aboard as an E1-E6, if it is after normal working hours, you are placed in an unassigned crew room near the aft mess decks. The next business day you attend Fam and I (familiarization and indoctrination) where your orders are processed and you are told which Department you are assigned, as well as your home port base rules. You go to your Department and they tell you which Division you are assigned. You go to your Division and they tell you where your assigned birthing compartment is. There is a Division assigned petty officer in the birthing compartment that shows you the available racks (beds) and you pick which unassigned bunk you want and it gets assigned to you. This was before women were allowed to serve on combatant vessels. I'm not sure if they still do it the same way as they did 40 years ago, when I left the service.
People be eating all the time on DS9, yo. Quark's, the Replimat, and Sisko's cooking. Voyager has a strong focus because one of the main characters basically lived in the kitchen.
Worf devoured the delicious omelet, Riker devoured all that Klingon stuff, the Klingon ambassador/traitor had a fine dinner as well, people ate cake, Deanna even WAS cake and had ice cream all the time... Trip and his pecan pie, Vulcans everywhere slurping plomeek soup... 
Yeah, you're right. Forgot about some of that. DS9 is probably best at showing folks eating, too.People be eating all the time on DS9, yo. Quark's, the Replimat, and Sisko's cooking. Voyager has a strong focus because one of the main characters basically lived in the kitchen.
Hell, the characters had a galley scene in almost every episode. Even when Organians took over the bodies of Malcolm and Travis they made sure to put a scene in with them eating corporeal food in the galley.
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This is my chicken sandwich and coffee.
The TV dinners aboard Shuttlepod 1 were pretty great to see being eaten.
And don't forget those delectable color cubes on Kirk's Enterprise!
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