How long have we had "weekends"? I'm sure our distant ancestors didn't take two days off a week from hunting, farming or gather so I doubt the "weekend" is something humans need.
Weekends in Starfleet
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I doubt they get days off every week. But in down periods when a full compliment isn't necessary when somebody has had a crushing workload for a long period of time, maybe they're given extra shifts off for their sanity. We've seen that happen, when Bashir ordered Kira to take time off.
Captain Archer likes to give the crew time off to "get in touch with their feelings."
On overseas bases (I lived on those growing up) you get a couple of days off a week, outside of war zones.
The life on the Enterprise (imo) would be more like living on a modern day base, rather than being deployed on a ship at sea. Again you're actually living on the starship for years, it's not a temporary assignment, it's your residence.
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Sure, after a particularly traumatic incident, like slowly vanishing after being transported, or being held prisoner by a nasty alien, you know, the stuff that just keeps happening to them on a weekly basis for some obscure reason
But all in all, i'd think the NX would a less, erm, relaxation-friendly place than the ent-D, the ship being far more primitive and having a crew complement of only 83...
Well, the necessities for a weekend would be primary religious. But as Gene "eliminated" religions in Star Trek this becomes moot.
Other think to ponder is how many hours a person works in a week. If it is 40 hours then they already have a weekend.
Or may be the weekend days are transfered into vacation days and in the end a person has some 130 vacation days per year.
Think about it.
Other think to ponder is how many hours a person works in a week. If it is 40 hours then they already have a weekend.
Or may be the weekend days are transfered into vacation days and in the end a person has some 130 vacation days per year.
Think about it.
That's how it was in my experience, though that was 25 years ago now. At sea, you work every day and tend to forget what day it is, except on Sundays you usually had "holiday routine" where there wasn't much off-watch work or drills. You still pulled watches, though. No "days off" till Liberty Call in port. Which was no big deal because a ship at sea is pretty boring if you don't have something to do, so might as well work.
In the US, about 100 years.
Except the writers apparently didn't get the memo, so religion is alive and well in the Trek future.
That's not really an issue, even today parents have to juggle child care when it comes to childcare.
1.>One of the parents might be a civillian so could look after children when the partner who is in starfleet is on duty
2.>On a ship such as the Ent-D you would expect there to be care centres where children could be looked after
There's also no indication that crew work 24 hours a day. All indications seem to be that having three shifts is the standard. You're off the rest of the day unless there's a red alert.
And it's reasonable to think there might be adjustments in the shift hours based on how long your race's day is.
Weekends might have had a religious origin but even the religious reasons for taking a day off had a pragmatic component. Humans under high stress situations with constant work and no break slowly wear down and become less effective.
And it's reasonable to think there might be adjustments in the shift hours based on how long your race's day is.
Weekends might have had a religious origin but even the religious reasons for taking a day off had a pragmatic component. Humans under high stress situations with constant work and no break slowly wear down and become less effective.
We do occasionally hear someone comment that they have a massive amount of leave coming to them -- Picard, for example, having about 10 months' worth accrued by INS -- so that's possible.
What did Picard do between losing the Enterprise D and getting the Enterprise E?
I would imagine that Starfleet officers have days off worked into their schedules, but there's probably no such thing as a weekend when a vessel is on a mission. A particular crew member may not have any shifts scheduled for a particular day but would still be expected on the bridge in the event of an emergency ("All senior officers to the bridge! Romulan vessel off port bow!").
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Board of inquiry regarding the Enterprise D's destruction?
Also, in The Way of the Warrior we learn Worf had been on an extended leave of absence following the Enterprise's destruction. Presumably, all the D's senior staff got this, only they stayed on leave until the Enterprise E was ready, and Worf got called back early.
But Picard wasn't on the ship when it was destroyed. Riker was the acting captain. So wouldn't it be Riker who faces the court-martial? (If they had one, that is)
Technically, Kirk wasn't on the Enterprise when she went down over Genesis, but as her (acting) CO--who had taken her out of dock without authorization--he was responsible for her. Riker may have been keeping Picard's chair warm, but it was still Picard's chair. As the ship was clearly not neglected by her captain, I doubt if anything came of the court martial, other than a brief notation in Picard's service record, as it was clearly a different situation than what transpired after he lost the Stargazer.
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^ Then again, a court martial might inquire as to why it was so easy for Lursa and B'etor to steal the ship's shield frequencies and thus punch a torpedo through it...you wouldn't count that as neglect?
I wouldn't. To me, neglect implies a failure to account for reasonable and predictable problems or outcomes. The idea that someone would use Geordi's visor to steal classified information (like a shield frequency) isn't something that would occur to most Starfleet officers (even someone with Riker's experience and reputation); it's been a while since I've watched Generations, but I don't remember the Enterprise crew ever figuring out how the Klingons breached their shields.
Another thought: given that the Duras Sisters were fugitives from Klingon justice, any protracted legal proceedings against Picard and his crew may have embarrassed Gowron and the High Council, as they'd been unable to track the two renegades down.
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Another thought: given that the Duras Sisters were fugitives from Klingon justice, any protracted legal proceedings against Picard and his crew may have embarrassed Gowron and the High Council, as they'd been unable to track the two renegades down.
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^Perhaps, but if the enemy is firing through your shields why not have the computer randomly rotate through the shield frequencies such as we've seen them do when fighting the Borg?
And lets be fair the Ent-D didn't put up much of a fight, it could easily have fired off a few dozen photon torpedeos.
And lets be fair the Ent-D didn't put up much of a fight, it could easily have fired off a few dozen photon torpedeos.
^ And the idea that Geordi's visor could constitute a security risk, is not all that farfetched. Any device that isn't permanently implanted, can be stolen and used against him.
Indeed, in one of the Slings and Arrows e-books, this is exactly what happens - an Admiral orders Geordi to either have surgery for ocular implants, or transfer to a less sensitive posting, because the visor is considered a risk to security. This is why Geordi has the implants in ST:FC.
Besides, Geordi was a captive of the Klingons, and surely remembers his visor being taken away and experimented on. I'm sure Geordi spilled the beans as to how he was treated on their ship...the Ent-D crew must have figured it out eventually.
Indeed, in one of the Slings and Arrows e-books, this is exactly what happens - an Admiral orders Geordi to either have surgery for ocular implants, or transfer to a less sensitive posting, because the visor is considered a risk to security. This is why Geordi has the implants in ST:FC.
Besides, Geordi was a captive of the Klingons, and surely remembers his visor being taken away and experimented on. I'm sure Geordi spilled the beans as to how he was treated on their ship...the Ent-D crew must have figured it out eventually.
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