Lets put a scenario out there. Star Fleet exsists, and you want to join. What do you think the entry tests would be?
So you want to join Star Fleet!
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Nardpuncher
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I'm not sure. I think we saw some tests in an early TNG episode. Wesley had to do the usual written exams but there were also tests of character.
When I decided to join the army I'd go out for a run to get ready and TNG was in it's 5th season then, I think, and when I ran I imagined that I was training to gain entry to Starfleet, with thoughts of Picard passing two upperclassmen on the last hill of the forty kilometer run on Delula II!
When I decided to join the army I'd go out for a run to get ready and TNG was in it's 5th season then, I think, and when I ran I imagined that I was training to gain entry to Starfleet, with thoughts of Picard passing two upperclassmen on the last hill of the forty kilometer run on Delula II!
There's also mention of an oral exam in Ménage à Troi.
I don't know, based on what I saw Wesley Crusher do in early TNG, I've always found the pre-requisites to join Starfleet Academy to be somewhat excessive. And not to mention that some individuals require sponsoring by senior Starfleet officers. TBH, if you're that keen on joining Starfleet, you might as well be tempted to become an enlisted crewmen... It all depends on your ambition.
I don't know, based on what I saw Wesley Crusher do in early TNG, I've always found the pre-requisites to join Starfleet Academy to be somewhat excessive. And not to mention that some individuals require sponsoring by senior Starfleet officers. TBH, if you're that keen on joining Starfleet, you might as well be tempted to become an enlisted crewmen... It all depends on your ambition.
As much as I would love to serve in Starfleet, I could never pass the exams. A certain episode notes that grade schoolers are taking algebra. Because of my Aspergers i'm absolutely terrible in mathmatics, especially algebra. (I'm a visual-category Aspie; with algebra there's nothing for me to visualize therefore its like trying to read a foreign language to me.) I would have be an enlisted specialist within a field of expertise. I would make a good historian, sociologist or anthopologist.
Hmmmm John Gil or Marla McGivers.....
Don't feel too bad. I don't even have Aspergers, and I stink at math too.
I don't know because I would never get the chance to enroll.
My mom would say the same thing she said to me when I wanted to join the Air Force so I could eventually become an astronaut.
In her best Jackie Gleason voice she'd say, "Do you wanna go to the moon? Yeah, I'll send you to the moon, alright, Pow, right in the kisser!"
Don't get me wrong, she'd never hurt me, but she'd never let me out the door to take the exams.
My mom would say the same thing she said to me when I wanted to join the Air Force so I could eventually become an astronaut.
In her best Jackie Gleason voice she'd say, "Do you wanna go to the moon? Yeah, I'll send you to the moon, alright, Pow, right in the kisser!"
Don't get me wrong, she'd never hurt me, but she'd never let me out the door to take the exams.
True or False quiz:
1) The Federation is morally superior to everyone else in the universe.
T/F
2) You must uphold the Prime Directive, but only when absolutley convenient.
T/F
3) You must uphold the Prime Directive, but only when absolutley inconvenient.
T/F
4) There is no money in the Federation
T/F
I wouldn't have a chance at joining Starfleet. By and large I'm an artsy type. A wonderful creative thinker and not bad with words but pretty crummy when it comes to science and higher mathematics. Still I'm a stubborn bastard, a halfway decent leader and not too bad at fighting Klingons though I admit my experience fighting them comes entirely from STO. 
Think briefly about what they wouldn't need you to know going in. Things like navigation, weapons, diplomacy, they can teach you that, in fact Starfleet might prefer you to be a blank slate in certain areas.
But there will be things they can't un-teach you in four years, things like character and personal traits. If you are a truly a despicable character without a ounce of moral substance there won't be much that Starfleet can do with you. Starfleet will need to test and observe to ascertain who you truly are during the evaluation process.
Starfleet can in four years enhance the character you arrive with, build upon your moral and ethical upbringing. The same as with your education, Starfleet can add to it but not take you up from scratch.
startrekrcks
Fleet Captain
Starfleet is like Space School isn't it
No.
It almost seems like a requirement for members of Starfleet to choose service to the fleet over their personal lives.
For me, if it ever came down to a choice between a woman and a career, I'd choose the woman each and every time. So I probably wouldn't be welcomed in Starfleet.
It almost seems like a requirement for members of Starfleet to choose service to the fleet over their personal lives.
For me, if it ever came down to a choice between a woman and a career, I'd choose the woman each and every time. So I probably wouldn't be welcomed in Starfleet.
Didn't Peter david say that Starfleet was the Peace Corps in outer space? Whatever happened to the Peace Corps? Did it go to peices?
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