Yeah, I can't get on board with that. Spread the knowledge and experience, don't confine it to one. This isn't some dubious or specious idea; this is a simple idea that Kirk's experiences could benefit teaching other commanders, same with Spock, with Scotty, etc.
One could imagine that being assigned to Captain Kirk's starship as a Junior Officer might be a bit nerve wracking. The thrill of the assignment could quickly turn to the dread of actually making back home alive once out there.
For those brass who dislike Kirk, keep his crew together, to avoid influencing other crews negatively?
It never works. The sites have the pics set up so folks can't. It essentially keeps people from stealing their bandwidth. You can set up a free account on imjur and then upload pic's which can then be copied to the BBS.
3 years as commanding officer is a *long* time in the current Navy. Average is more like 12-18 months.
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.
You mean to the betterment of the UFP and StarFleet =D I concur! 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.
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.