How much of the crew got instant promotions in Resolutions?

[Guy Gardener]

The Captain and the first officer got kicked off the ship for sleeping on duty.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Everyone would have moved two places up the totem, not that necessarily meant an actual promotion, rather than a transfer to a new duty requiring a bit more responsibility.

Was Carey the first officer or Tom?

B'Elanna was a section head, so her role as chief engineer was independent of rank, meaning that we know that she was a lieutenant Junior grade, but after almost two decades in the service (it had been one decade since we saw Joe on TNG in the episode Justice.) Carey would have to be a bit of a loser if he was still LTJG....

Though didn't you get the feeling that Kes jumped queue and usurped the role of XO that week from how she was taking liberties with Tuvok in his quarters?

So maybe half the crew got promoted.

Then got demoted when Janeway returned.

Kim remained an Ensign the whole time.

Poor bastard.

Promotion means larger quarters and more replicator rations.

Demotion means smaller quarters and less replactor rations.

There must have been crew REALLY not interested in rescuing Janeway and her monkey and her other monkey.

So...

If Kim had been promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade, because of the vacuum, more so than because of anything he actually did that wasn't mediocre, would wee Harry have thrashed so hard to get Kathryn back if it mean Demotion, smaller quarters and less replicator rations?

Either answer, yes or no, makes Kim seem like a putz, no?

 

[KNH]

Someone always has to be the Ensign.

If Kim and the Doc were the only ones left onboard he'd still be Ensign, serving under the ECH.

 

[Guy Gardener]

It was pathetic when Kim and the ECH were arguing over their next course of action in Workforce, and Chakotay gives a short father knows best speech as if a hologram and a gerbil were equals.

Maybe this is the explanation for the mysterious Commander Bartlett from Imperfection?

iI "Jed" had received a promotion from lieutenant to full Commander in Resolutions, became the XO, but was then killed in a accident before they could rescue Chakotay and Janeway, or during their rescue of Janeway and Chakotay, it could explain away an officer holding a superior rank to Chakotay's analogous presence on that ship.

 

[od0_ital]

With Tuvok in command, that made Tom the next senior officer on the bridge, so he would have been Tuvok's first officer, had they had to continue without Janeway & Chakotay. Whoever served as Tuvok's deputy would be moved up to senior tactical officer while the beta or delta shift pilot would be moved to fill Tom's position. And everyone else would stay the same, I suppose, as far as senior staffin' goes, anway...

 

[Guy Gardener]

Are you sure voyager had four shifts?

When they said that they couldn't run the ship with less than a hundred people in the 37s, I assumed that was 2 shifts of 50... Which would make three shifts generated from a crew of 150ish.

Of course if there was a quote to say other wise, that would trump my logic.

 

[od0_ital]

Delta = night shift. Seemed to me that the 24th century-set Trek shows avoided namin' shifts Charlie, Echo or Foxtrot, but did use Alpha, Beta, Delta & Gamma (see TNG 'Chain of Command, Part Two').

 

[Guy Gardener]

Gamma is 3 or c, and Delta is 4 or d.

When does Delta mean 2?

The Enterprise was on a 3 shift rotation before chain of command. The Enterprise was the flag ship, how it conducted it's business would have been the SOP for the entire fleet. Jellico on the other hand is a weird old maverick who problem solves off the cuff, and invented the 4 shift rotation. maybe it took off from there because of how the Flagship was now operating and the SOP fleet wide changed?

(You know all this, I'm sure.)

However early in season 4 DS9 we get a conversation like this gem form Starship Down...

KIRA: The Karemma transport will be here at eighteen hundred hours tomorrow, and the Defiant should be ready to escort them back to the Gamma Quadrant.
SISKO: Good. Major, it occurred to me that we might consider going to a four shift rotation. I think the crew might appreciate more flexibility in their schedules.
KIRA: I'll look in to it first thing in the morning.

So the three shift rotation was still SOP Fleet wide, or at least optional, even though the Bajoran cycle, ie "A day on DS9" lasts 26 hours and not 24 hours which had more room to afford an extra shift than locals operating on Mean Earth Time.

 

[od0_ital]

^

Okay, that gamma would be used before delta doesn't even make sense....thought that they skipped over letters is bad enough, but rearrangin' 'em? seriously, wtf?!?

But ya get my point, right? I was goin' for whoever was on night shift....yeah...

 

[Guy Gardener]

I get it now.

Mostly.

A day shift and a night shift of 12 hours each seems wrong.

Is it possible that there was more than one day shift?

In Resolutions, and only in resolutions they referred to "the early Shift".

 

[Bob Karo]

Depending on if the crew got days off, they might have had a four crew 12 hour shift rotation like many police and EMS agencies use. 2 days on, 2 off, 3 on, 2 off, 2 on, 3 off and then repeat. Maybe a mix.

There's also the possibility of a three crew 6 hour shift rotation. Especially on a ship like the Defiant where they might be hot bunking.

 

[hayesc0]

I was more curious as to why tuvok did not have a command division uniform

 

[Guy Gardener]

Decades, DECADES in Starfleet (twice) and he was still a lieutenant when the show began?

Tuvok wasn't interested in Command, making his way to Captain or Admiral.

He wanted to teach.

Of course how did he go from Archery teacher to spy?

 

[DeepSpaceWine]

Maybe Voyager had 4 rotations, just Beta or Gamma was left vacant and everyone was either asleep, in the mess hall, partying, whatnot, and they just set the ship on cruise control. It could've been their happy shift or leftover time at the end of the year used for partying like in some ancient societies.

 

[Gary7]

Maybe Voyager had 4 rotations, just Beta or Gamma was left vacant and everyone was either asleep, in the mess hall, partying, whatnot, and they just set the ship on cruise control. It could've been their happy shift or leftover time at the end of the year used for partying like in some ancient societies.

Given the unusual circumstances of their situation, I suspect they may have improvised. The problem is that detailed exposure of this was never given so... we're left to speculate with no real resolution.

That said, I'd venture to say there were 3 shifts, 8 hours a piece, and the day/swing shifts were more densely staffed while the night shift was more of a skeleton crew. And then of course, everyone would be woken up in the event of a crisis, to help deal with the situation. Funny that, we never saw people in their pajamas emerging from their quarters as disaster struck, wondering WTF? Also, the Hirogen never let anybody sleep during the holodeck simulations? No sleep for months on end would've made everybody seriously loopy and the whole scenario would've crumbled. The crew quarters weren't part of the holodeck, so... where would they sleep? Uhhh...

 

[KNH]

It'd make sense that, for the sake of immersion/"realism" to provide era-appropriate quarters on the holodeck. 24th century comfort and 20th century battlefields don't mix.

 

[The_Baroness]

Not to mention they'd all have to do their toilet business there too.

I dont fancy being the one to clean the holo decks after.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Any waste would transported into space.

The 2 problems with that are that aliens are collecting space stool to aid with medical experiments back home, all the time, and that the transporter could very easily accidentally retrieve the stool still in your colon, create a thunder clap inside you and the next thing you know: You're paint.