Should the new Enterprise have MACOS onboard?
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No.
Closest thing would probably have been the Starfleet ground troops shown in "The Siege of AR-558," who served a Marines-like function but were never explicitly identified as such on-screen.
Closest thing would probably have been the Starfleet ground troops shown in "The Siege of AR-558," who served a Marines-like function but were never explicitly identified as such on-screen.
Yevetha
Commodore
There is no rpg stuff about the ground troops?
I couldn't tell you about RPG stuff, because I don't play those. You could probably ask in the Gaming Forum, though.
IMDB is one of those sites where anyone can add anything. IIRC, they had someone listed as "Ensign Spyke" awhile ago, and then Benadict Cumberbatch as Khan.
"Soldier" could mean anything. For all we know he could be a Klingon soldier, or an alien soldier.
Ensign Spyke is still listed there.
Shipboard: Standard red-security, with a division specific badge instead of the standard delta.
On Away Missions (barring diplomatic): Some form of camo. With modern effects, something that has a active "chameleon" ability to shift color palettes to suit the environment around them
Why would you want the 'marines' to wear the same uniform color that the security officers wear? They are not the same area of specialty.
I don't want to defend the idea of MACOs on Kirk's Enterprise--it makes too much sense to me that they would have either been absorbed into the regular security force or would have become a Marine Corps like group who would only be on ships expecting combat---
But...
Don't engineers wear the same color as security officers? How does shooting a phaser and guarding the brig equate with maintaining a warp core?
Security officers and engineers receive the same amount of training, as made clear in TNG's Chain of Command when Captain Jellico's first order of business was to transfer half of the Enterprise's engineering staff to security.
My thinking? Shipboard, the Marines would be part of the standard security forces. Unless their was a boarding action, they'd not really have much to do in between missions.
The soliders from Enterprise's third season. Unlike the usual Starfleet security types, they actually seemed capable of taking care of themselves.
Perhaps more than you really wanted to know about MACOs, but:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Military_Assault_Command_Operations
hell no, I hope amc dies way b4 this century is over, it would be awesome if BSD or linux were the system though, mac is barfish
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