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But he wasn't drifting. He spent the interim at Utopia Plantia overseeing the development of the Defiant as a Lieutenant Commander. His former commanding officer, Leyton, recommended Sisko for promotion to Commander and a posting on Deep Space Nine.
The promotion to DS9 always felt so odd to me. It is one thing to oversee engineers working on a project, quite another to prepare a foreign culture to become Federation members.
General Douglas MacArthur went from commanding US troops in the Pacific to overseeing the reconstruction of Japan post World War 2.
And was basically the viceroy and ruler of Japan until the country regained its independence in 1952.
Yes, a general that had commanded tens of thousands of troops and already had experience working in that theater of operations and was part of the peace negotiations.
Probably a ruse to keep him in Starfleet since Sisko planned to leave.
Did anyone know he was planning on leaving before his conversation with Picard in "Emissary"?
It's certainly possible for an XO to be a Lt. Cmdr. Riker was a Lt. Cmdr. when he was XO of the Hood. (Picard mentions Shelby sounded like a 'young Lt. Cmdr. I took on as First Officer' in "The Best of Both Worlds" when he was talking to Riker about captaining the Melbourne.) Probably with the older ships or smaller ones, Lt. Cmdr. is the typical rank for XO.
And Sisko wasn't drifting between Wolf 359 and DS9. He was at Utopia Planitia.
I would assume they would've moved onto Black ShuttleCraft & Black StarShips.
For anyone who doesn't know, the real world reason for O'Brien's change from officer to enlisted in TNG is the episode "Realm of Fear." Brannon Braga said that he wanted Barclay to be able to give O'Brien an order and, thus, the change. But I believe the producers also thought that it suited his character well to be enlisted.
IIRC, I remember hearing stories that, despite some nationalistic views and obvious bad blood the Japanese held towards the Americans at the time, they still credit MacArthur with spearheading the post-war rebuild of the country, leading it into the modern age as a technological juggernaut. Some even went so far as referring to him as "Emperor MacArthur", and not necessarily in a negative context.
We will never know, but if he was close to Leyton he might have mentioned it. After the traumatic events of Wolf 359, a lot of survivors might have left the fleet.
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If you ignore his costume and just pay attention to the lines that the writers wrote, they're a bit more consistent. (Costumer: Hey, we're supposed to put that transporter dude in a uniform and he's an NCO! They need to film it in three hours! We don't have any NCO insignia! Other costumer: Just put a single ring. No one will know the difference.)
Shows was a low priority Bajor was to the Federation.
It still felt odd. Especially considering they didn't send him with any kind of experts in assimilating a culture into the Federation.
I like Sisko, my youngest is named Benjamin, but it always felt like a very odd backstory.
Well he should have been a Captain, even at a backwater post like DS9. And maybe an Admiral/Commodore by the midpoint of the series.
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