New Frontier Excalibur crew Question

[dispatcher812]

I am currently reading Dark Allies in the New Frontier series. I am confuse as to why Katerina Mueller is referred to as the "Executive Officer". Shouldn't Shelby have that title? I always though the XO was for the 2nd in command.


Never Mind. The very next paragraph explained it.

 

[Stevil2001]

I am currently reading Dark Allies in the New Frontier series. I am confuse as to why Katerina Mueller is referred to as the "Executive Officer". Shouldn't Shelby have that title? I always though the XO was for the 2nd in command.


Never Mind. The very next paragraph explained it.

The New Frontier executive officer/first officer split was first introduced in The Captain's Table: Once Burned, for what it's worth.

 

[Csalem]

It did sort of make sense that the night shift had a senior officer in charge. After all, there would be no "night" in space, or it is all night with no day. Enterprise wouldn't just face problems 9 to 5.

I think Robot Chicken got it right:

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[David cgc]

Makes more sense than Voyager having Harry Kim in charge of the night shift. When is he supposed to sleep?

 

[JD]

Was that Patrick Stewart as Picard? It sure sounded like him, and I know he has done parody stuff like this before.

 

[Idran]

Makes more sense than Voyager having Harry Kim in charge of the night shift. When is he supposed to sleep?

Asking that question is why he never made LTJG.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Makes more sense than Voyager having Harry Kim in charge of the night shift. When is he supposed to sleep?

My best guess would be that Voyager had a four shift schedule, so he had his main bridge shift, the night shift, a recreation period, and a sleep period.

 

[Csalem]

Was that Patrick Stewart as Picard? It sure sounded like him, and I know he has done parody stuff like this before.

Not just Patrick Stewart but also Chris Pine:
http://collider.com/star-trek-robot-chicken-clip-chris-pine-patrick-stewart/

 

[Avro Arrow]

It did sort of make sense that the night shift had a senior officer in charge.

Sure, that made sense. But co-opting a term that already meant something else, didn't.