Could this be another blurring by the writers of naval/Starfleet ranks again? All Starfleet crew will have scientific training. Officers tend to have at least degree equivalent training in one subject, training with minor and major subjects, with some, usually science officers, having multiple science or engineering degrees.And even aboard the Enterprise during DSC season 2!
Speaking of uniform colour oddities: the casualty screen from the original Rigel VII mission shows two crewmembers in red, and one in blue. The person identified as "science specialist" was not the one in blue!
They’re not so good at Second Contact. It’s canon you know.Pike did have one line that caused me to raise an eyebrow, when they were discussing the prior landing party fiasco on Rigel 7.
Words to the effect that they were evacuating with the wounded, and keeping track of their equipment fell by the wayside. Given the Prime Directive, you'd think that equipment inventory (tool control!) would have been of primary importance, and there is probably someone aboard the ship whose job (or at least a collateral duty) centers around that, like a supply chief or yeoman. (One not assigned to the way team!)
As soon as they realized there was equipment left behind, ESPECIALLY WEAPONS, there should have been a secondary mission to retrieve them, even if it went to another ship. And I mean immediately, not five years later. Very sloppy, starfleet! Very sloppy.
The part that got me about that is while that the blueshirt was only listed as "Ensign" or rather the abbreviation "ENS." Given Nguyen was listed as "Yeoman" and the other redshirt as "Science Specialist" one has to wonder why the blueshirt is only listed by his rank rather than his job title like the other two?Speaking of uniform colour oddities: the casualty screen from the original Rigel VII mission shows two crewmembers in red, and one in blue. The person identified as "science specialist" was not the one in blue!
It's interesting how some people are inferring Ortega's sexuality just by her haircut...
and where is the fun in that?Or we could just go all meta and acknowledge that these were pilot and early episodes of the show, and the showrunners didn't have it all figured out yet, and quit trying to shoehorn every little inconsistency into an in-world explanation.
And before anyone asks, yes, I've been around the board a while.
I hope she doesn’t die, but she seems to be out of the game, as she probably isn’t close to pike anymore when the accident happens.
Well, the Aeneid was written with a lot of political considerations in mind and those go over the head of most modern readers (the same is true for Dante’s Commedia, by the way, but he’s much more direct and wrote a much more entertaining work anyway) and calling it a cheap knockoff is probably right. It was a mandatory reading for me too and honestly not one I enjoyed.
She got to choose the haircut. Same as Celia Rose Gooding got to choose hers. Same as Rebecca Romijn asked for a version of the mini skirt uniform and got it.Post Felicity, I'm %90 that the actress had that hair cut forced on her.
If the hair cut is an expression of the characters sexuality, it was not the actors decision.
Or she's another homage to Vasquez from Aliens
I haven't seen the trailer in question, but apparently I'm told there's a shot that seems to imply she's facing down the Gorn later on or whatever.
I read Dante in a version with annotations and it really helped my appreciation and enjoyment. My biggest problem with the Illiad was all the repitition (understandable in what was originally memorized and told orally) and all the equipment listings. I never thought of it as a "franchise" before!
