Siblings with same assignment

[Crewman47]

I was thinking just a few minutes ago about something I wanted to do in my own little fanfic story about putting siblings on the same ship and it brought me to the Delaney sisters on Voyager but I want to open it to all Trek so that's why it's here instead. Anyway how do you suppose siblings like the Delaney sisters would manage to get the same assigment together and how likely would be for other's to get a ship/base assignment with a sibling or relative?

Also are there other people who serve with a relative in Trek apart from the Delaneys?

 

[CorporalClegg]

I was thinking just a few minutes ago about something I wanted to do in my own little fanfic story about putting siblings on the same ship and it brought me to the Delaney sisters on Voyager but I want to open it to all Trek so that's why it's here instead. Anyway how do you suppose siblings like the Delaney sisters would manage to get the same assigment together and how likely would be for other's to get a ship/base assignment with a sibling or relative?

Also are there other people who serve with a relative in Trek apart from the Delaneys?

It's interesting, but I think in the modern military siblings cannot serve together to prevent them from dying at the same time.

The military has some strange rules when it comes to preserving a faimily legacy or "lineage" or whatever.

Granted, I'm not 100% certain of this.

 

[Triskelion]

Then again, I saw a WWII movie in which 7 sisters joined the WACS, but told the recruiter only under the stipulation they could serve together, and they were accomodated. So, life being exactly like the movies, ....

 

[Defcon]

Also are there other people who serve with a relative in Trek apart from the Delaneys?

In the Stargazer novels the twins Gerda and Idun Asmund are both stationed on the Stargazer.

 

[D'deridex]

If you are good enough at the Academy, you get the chance to choose the ship or station you're send to. For example Bashir tells Kira in "Emissary" that he choose the position on DS9.

I think it also could be possible that you simply have to ask Starfleet to send you and your relative to the same ship/station.

Married couples can be on the same ship as well. For example Riker an Troi, who go to the Titan together in Nemesis.

 

[CorporalClegg]

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Which is also very different from real life.

Spouses cannot serve in the same chain of command which, to me, makes a lot of sense.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

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Which is also very different from real life.

Spouses cannot serve in the same chain of command which, to me, makes a lot of sense.

I dunno, I think it makes sense that a captain's spouse could also serve as their ship's counselor. Troi, for example, knows Will better than anyone else on the Titan, so she'd be in the best position to advise him.

Then again, a counselor is not in the chain of command as such (except for Star Trek: Borg ), so I suppose it doesn't count.

 

[J.T.B.]

US armed forces do not have a rule against siblings serving in the same unit, but if they are deployed to a combat area one will be reassigned if he/she requests. This came up a couple of years ago when three brothers were serving in Iraq in the same brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division.

--Justin

 

[-Brett-]

There've been some references to characters requesting certain postings. By the same token, family, or even friends could probably request to serve together and Starfleet would probably try to accomodate them.

If your fanfic involves siblings that don't get along being put together by chance, that seems unlikely considering how big Starfleet is.

 

[Forbin]

I thought that after the Sullivans incident in WWII, siblings were not allowed to serve on the same ship.

 

[Sector 7]

I thought that after the Sullivans incident in WWII, siblings were not allowed to serve on the same ship.

True. At least when I served. I was in boot camp with twin brothers who had enlisted under the buddy system. They had been promised in writing by the recruiter that they could serve together. The Navy overrode the recruiter. They were offered the choice of: separate assignments, stateside assignments or separation from service. They chose to go home, with a rather large sum of money.
[Recruiters are the used car salesmen of the military. Another guy was promised signalman (the guy with the colored flags who waves in the jets on an aircraft carrier). Halfway through boot camp they discovered he was color-blind. He was let go with a big check since he was promised in writing.]