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Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

Yep. The milspec folks I work with all seem to have a mandatory maximum rotation of 3 years before getting moved elsewhere. The good ones get rotated out within 1.5 years. Sucks for maintaining continuity of operations and institutional memory on a long program, but regs is regs...

Of course, once they get their DD214, and if they like where they worked, they can request a position as either a FedGov employee or find a private company on site contract to get permanently assigned after they muster out.
 
They must contribute to the betterment of humanity.
You mean to the betterment of the UFP and StarFleet =D

In the Federation/Starfleet, we now have a government entity that has finally learned a very long-sought lesson, "If it ain't broke, don't fuckin' fix it!!
I concur!

3 years as commanding officer is a *long* time in the current Navy. Average is more like 12-18 months.
What does that make your average StarFleet Captain who are the heroes of the shows who command their ships for 7+ years in time?
 
Maybe that's what I was thinking of. All I know is that they don't hold one position as long as starfleet officers do.

No, not by a long shot. IRL you're faced with "up or out", you can only decline/miss a certain number of promotion opportunities before you're drummed out.
 
Never Contemplate Canon
or
Not Consistently Canon

yer choice. :nyah:

Never Canonically Consistent :D

Maybe we now finally have the secret canonical meaning behind all the "NCC" registry prefixes! Hmmm....
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I know a lot of people like to think of it as "Naval Construction Contract" or somthing similar, but think I like "New Construction Catalogue", as a homage to the use of NGC designations in astronomy meaning "New General Catalogue".

Doesn't work so well with the NX stuff though.
 
We’ll know on Frontier Day, when every Starfleet vessel will be in attendance.
Hell yeah. I was hoping to see a galaxy class but since the Ross Class and Sutherland Class are now Canon that is looking more and more hopeless :wah:. Also if the Sutherland Class (originally from STO) is the Successor to the Nebula Class then its possible the Andromeda class (STO) could also be considered canon and successor to the Galaxy. I was thinking it would be awesome to see the Steamrunner, Norway, Saber, Nova or Prometheus class. If the Akira is still in service it's possible some of these other vessels are too. It seems wasteful for starfleet to decommission these ships only 20-30 years after the first ones were built... especially after the destruction of UP fleet yards & Synth attack. After all the Excelsior and Miranda survived for ~100 years. My head-canon sees the Akira as the Successor to the Miranda, ignoring her designation as a "Carrier".
 
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