The crew
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Here's a start.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Category:USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701)_personnel
However, Memory Alpha also has several lists of unnamed personnel (in some cases played by unidentified actors), so getting a full and complete listing of 430 names may be impossible.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Category:USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701)_personnel
However, Memory Alpha also has several lists of unnamed personnel (in some cases played by unidentified actors), so getting a full and complete listing of 430 names may be impossible.
No idea were but I do remember seeing a website with an exhaustive list with screengrabs. It sticks out in my mind because of some of the (to my reasoning) questionable placeholder names. One extra, a light-skinned African American man, was called something like "Lewis Lite," and so forth.
Sir Rhosis
Sir Rhosis
Great link. They have this for un-named crewmen:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Unnamed_USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701)_personnel
With pictures!
I've got a question about crew complement: has it ever been explained anywhere just what exactly happens when crewmembers get killed off (as we often saw in TOS episodes, such as in the Apple and Obsession where multiple redshirts get killed). Since they are on a 5 year mission to explore unexplored space, basically far away from starbases and member planets one would assume, are they forced to make do for the rest of their 5 years with depleted numbers? Or are replacement crew shuttled somehow on an irregular basis?
Yeah, this "five-year mission" thing doesn't seem to mean what Bixby thinks it means. Kirk was quite often visiting starbases, outposts and other Starfleet and UFP assets. Heck, he even visited Earth twice (and although both times this got him to Earth's past rather than her present, the heavy implication seemed to be that he would have visited Earth's present in connection with these adventures as well).
Replenishment and crew rotation was probably commonplace for the Enterprise. But there may have been periods when she was too far away from Starfleet to get immediate casualty replacements, which may explain certain shifts in crew positions (say, after the first pilot, where they were indeed out in the sticks when losing top personnel).
What we don't know is whether Kirk always had exactly 430 people aboard. Many seemed to be "freeloaders" of some sort, with little or nothing to do except wait for the possible adventure where their special skills might be needed. Losing Marla McGivers in "Space Seed" would not have made Kirk acutely request another A&A officer, as he had had no use for one in the preceding months or possibly years, either... Probably the ship could run with just a couple of hundred people, and could accommodate 500+, and 430 was some sort of a happy average that Starfleet guesstimated might best serve Kirk's mission.
Timo Saloniemi
Replenishment and crew rotation was probably commonplace for the Enterprise. But there may have been periods when she was too far away from Starfleet to get immediate casualty replacements, which may explain certain shifts in crew positions (say, after the first pilot, where they were indeed out in the sticks when losing top personnel).
What we don't know is whether Kirk always had exactly 430 people aboard. Many seemed to be "freeloaders" of some sort, with little or nothing to do except wait for the possible adventure where their special skills might be needed. Losing Marla McGivers in "Space Seed" would not have made Kirk acutely request another A&A officer, as he had had no use for one in the preceding months or possibly years, either... Probably the ship could run with just a couple of hundred people, and could accommodate 500+, and 430 was some sort of a happy average that Starfleet guesstimated might best serve Kirk's mission.
Timo Saloniemi
Y'know early on it seems like a 5-year deep space mission without replenishment. Back in the eerie music era, pre-Coon. Although they pick up Chapel from somewhere. If it were Hornblowerish, the idea was he and his crew were out on their own away from parental superiors to give advice, right?
Aside from contact with starbases and other ships, Enterprise also does supply runs for those out there on the frontier. So there's really no need for them to carry 5 years' worth of supplies and personnel as there are numerous opportunities to "top up" on the way.
Except that Kirk says this line in Mark of Gideon:
Except that Kirk says this line in Mark of Gideon:
They probably have a whole bunch of those packets of romulan noodles. 
Are they made of real Romulans?
Well of course I know that for series and story needs they had Kirk and the Enterprise zipping back and forth in every direction (To get Spock back to Vulcan for Pon Farr, back towards Earth for a handful of episodes, many others), instead of following what is actually their show's stated purpose which was the 5 year mission to ''explore strange new worlds''.
You think Nasa's space probes keep going back and forth between our planet and then back out all the time? it kinda goes against common sense, but they needed to fill air dates with good dramatic stories more. I was just hoping to see a printed or broadcast explanation for the eventual depletion of their crew and supplies.
Yimo's mention of nearly useless crew specialists is also on the money: one would think a vulcanologist would sit around twiddling his thumbs if a starship keeps passing by endless ice planets.
You think Nasa's space probes keep going back and forth between our planet and then back out all the time? it kinda goes against common sense, but they needed to fill air dates with good dramatic stories more. I was just hoping to see a printed or broadcast explanation for the eventual depletion of their crew and supplies.
Yimo's mention of nearly useless crew specialists is also on the money: one would think a vulcanologist would sit around twiddling his thumbs if a starship keeps passing by endless ice planets.
I don't think the the opening credit monologue is supposed to be taken as the show's "stated purpose". The first episode aired, The Man Trap, had the ship on a mission to provide supplies and routine medical exams for the Craters. In Charlie X they're seem to be headed in the direction of Colony Five. The Naked Time has them picking up scientists from Psi 2000. Not counting WNMHGB. The Enemy With in is the first aired episode with "exploration".
One of the ingenious things about STAR TREK is that the format is broad enough to accommodate any number of types of missions. You can do exploration stories, you can do war stories, you can do spy stories, you can do political stories, etc.
Just think how limiting it would be if every episode began with them beaming down to a previously unexplored planet or randomly bumping into some new outer-space oddity!
(It dawns on me that I've written at least twenty STAR TREK books or stories and I don't think I've ever written a straight "exploration" story. There's almost always a diplomatic mission or a distress signal or something to kick off the plot.)
Just think how limiting it would be if every episode began with them beaming down to a previously unexplored planet or randomly bumping into some new outer-space oddity!
(It dawns on me that I've written at least twenty STAR TREK books or stories and I don't think I've ever written a straight "exploration" story. There's almost always a diplomatic mission or a distress signal or something to kick off the plot.)
Well, "Space the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. It's five year mission, to drop off supplies and provide healthcare for researchers. To boldly provide transport for people needing a lift." doesn't sound as good.
