Geordi in future TNG novels
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Now that's simply being cruel with that teaser, y'know...
I was disappointed in Geordi's rationalization in 'A time for War...', I have to say.
"I already know I'm a good..." isn't really that great an attitude, in my mind.
"I already know I'm a good..." isn't really that great an attitude, in my mind.
Was I the only one who heard the *BAMF* ?
Nah, I heard a *CRACK* not a *BAMF*Technobuilder said:
Was I the only one who heard the *BAMF* ?
KRAD said:
The only one that wasn't established in Resistance was the new second officer.
Err, and the new security chief.
The new second officer will be doing the same duties Data did.
I have to admit, I always found the idea of a "science officer" to be specious. I keep thinking of the line in Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, when Dr. Armstrong begs his wife not to bother him when he's "doing science."
TOS made it work because Spock was a generalist (which is a nice way of saying, "he knew every discipline the plot required him to know"), but realistically, no one would be that much of a scientific omnivore, as it were. In fact, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" felt more accurate, having a ship's astrophysicist and so on.
The way the position of second officer was set up in TNG, that person is the overall supervisor in charge of ship operations, just as the first officer is in charge of personnel.
KRAD said:
No, the new security chief was established in Resistance: Lio Battaglia.The only one that wasn't established in Resistance was the new second officer.
Err, and the new security chief.
He's not the one I was thinking of.
ATimson said:
Does the E-E have a science officer now? Or has that post gone by the wayside?KRAD said:
The only one that wasn't established in Resistance was the new second officer.
Well, Jaza is specifically caleld the 'science officer' aboard the Titan. He also wears blue.
(at least I assume so, because of 'Blue Table'.
^ I suspect the post of "science officer" is an abbreviation of "senior science officer" or "chief officer, sciences division", and it designates an individual who, while perhaps having a specific scientific specialty, also has additional responsibilities as a general supervisor for the ship's sciences division. This person would, like a chief engineer, be the go-to person for the command crew when there are questions to be posed to the scientific research group on the ship.
^^Yep. My take on the "science officer" title, which I discussed in Ex Machina and The Buried Age, is that he or she is the generalist who's responsible for coordinating the efforts of all the specialists onboard and keeping the lines of communication open between them. A perennial problem in science today is overspecialization -- too many scientists are too focused on their own narrow fields and don't know enough about anything else to recognize the larger connections and patterns that link fields of knowledge and that can provide deeper insights. I've often thought our pursuit of knowledge would advance faster if there were more people trained as generalists to balance the specialists and help establish lines of communication among different scientific disciplines. And I tend to assume that's the job of a Starfleet science officer.
Of course, this interpretation is also my way of accounting for the standard TV portrayal of "science expert" characters, where just one brilliant person is an expert in every field of science and engineering, both theoretical and applied -- which is just completely, gobsmackingly different from what scientists are like in real life.
Of course, this interpretation is also my way of accounting for the standard TV portrayal of "science expert" characters, where just one brilliant person is an expert in every field of science and engineering, both theoretical and applied -- which is just completely, gobsmackingly different from what scientists are like in real life.
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