Would the officer here be a 711X, 713X or is any officer assignable?
Officer to enlisted ratio?
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Would the officer here be a 711X, 713X or is any officer assignable?
His predecessor was a LTjg, his replacement an Ensign (per the other cruise books I have) so I would guess 'any officer'. No clear photo of any insignia.
Sometimes though there was lateral movement in a department, presumably to build experience; my first division officer was a newly minted Ensign that did a year-long stint in E-division before heading up R-division and then briefly A-division. He made LTjg during that time but moved on to another command before pinning on the LT bars. It's always possible that Deck played that shuffle game as well.
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Okay, so getting back to the original question: as @Bry_Sinclair said, Gene Roddenberry wanted everyone on the Enterprise to be an Officer (never mind that they did slip a few Crewmen in here and there.) Accordingly, the Franz Joseph listed the crew as either "Officers (Command)" or "Crew (Ensign Grade)" at a ratio of 10% being Officers / 90% being Ensigns. In general, I try to stay somewhere near that when I draft crew rosters.
Other than the obvious "Command School or Bridge Officers Test is required for Commander rank and above" and some understandable woolliness about Commodores, what stood out to you?
To my knowledge there is no established ratio. But you might want to take into account the difference between the U.S. Navy and NASA - where pretty much everyone who goes up is either an officer or is a civilian scientist - usually with a Ph.D. I think for Star Fleet, the ratio would be somewhere in between, and that enlisted personnel, although recruited directly in after basic training, would have considerably more skills than those for raw recruits into the U.S. military.
Various ST TV series presented enlisted personnel with titles such as Crewman, Chief, Navigator, Engineer, Yoman, and Specialist (but not, to my knowledge, Petty Officer.) There was also little mention of Warrant Officers (generally quartermasters, but also some other technical specialists, such as investigators.) 4th year cadets and graduates of Officer Candidate School enter service as Midshipman.
For my Star Trek Hunter series, departments on the U.S.S. Hunter averaged 3 officers and 6 enlisted (it's a small frigate with only 4 departments.) In addition, there are 3 executive officers (including the captain) and 3 holographic warrant officers (2 EMH and one engineer.)
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Yeomen and Specialists in the RW are generally Petty Officers, Navigator varies (an enlisted navigator is usually Quartermaster, Navigators are commissioned officers), Engineers are officers, engineering technicans are enlisted, mostly Petty Officers and Chief Petty Officers.
The actual term "Petty Officer" was only used once, for Zim Brott, one of the victims in Field of Fire.
The rank of Warrant Officer has never been used on screen, given that Starfleet doesn't have an "up and out" policy like the US armed forces, it's unlikely that a separate "Warrant Officer community" exists as the necessary could be shared out among "career Chief Petty Officer/Chief Specialists" and "career lieutenants" as required.
Still getting used to the vagaries of this platform... Thanks for the clarifications!
I imagine the qualifications for enlisted personnel would increase, which is probably why some enlisted personnel were referred to as Navigator or Engineer. For my series, the warrant officer was used exclusively for holographic personnel as they are really neither officer nor enlisted.
Thanks!! rbs
I imagine the qualifications for enlisted personnel would increase, which is probably why some enlisted personnel were referred to as Navigator or Engineer. For my series, the warrant officer was used exclusively for holographic personnel as they are really neither officer nor enlisted.
Thanks!! rbs
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