qualified command officers might have been seriously low after Wolf 359. they had to rebuild a fleet. Maybe the Sisko had some rare certification in station management and there just weren't many others who did.
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My headcanon has him as the commander of Starfleet's Utopia Planitia facility
I could picture him as a commander at Starfleet's Utopia Planitia, commanding a project there, not as the commander of Utopia Planitia. I would expect that to be someone of much higher rank, a vice admiral at least. Unless it is actually only a minor shipyard.
It's a big place. No doubt the head honcho is an Admiral. Maybe Sisko runs R&D.
Worf's dad refers to O'Brien as a "chief petty officer" in Family, which was two years before Realm of Fear.
You're correct. Maybe I should have phrased it better. At a macro-level, MacArthur oversaw 430,000 troops in post war Japan.
But at the micro-level, I'm sure there were soldiers/sailors like Sisko in parts of Japan that had little experience in Japanese culture who felt they were in over their heads and thought that they were stationed in some back water provence with a hostile/resentful populace and little, to no, support from the higher ups.
But at the micro-level, I'm sure there were soldiers/sailors like Sisko in parts of Japan that had little experience in Japanese culture who felt they were in over their heads and thought that they were stationed in some back water provence with a hostile/resentful populace and little, to no, support from the higher ups.
Okay. I went a pulled my copy of 'Emissary' off the shelves and read through the first couple of chapters.
In summary, immediately after Wolf 359, Sisko requested an Earth based assignment, but was given a position at Utopia Plantia overseeing the reconstruction of the Fleet. When he was told he was being transferred to Deep Space Nine, he protested, but was told by Starfleet that his career had stalled at Utopia Plantia, so they were presenting him with a promotion and a challenge. Sisko didn't care about the promotion or career advancement and he thought about resigning and taking up a civilian job on Earth, but none of his inquiries had panned out, so he resigned himself to the fact that he was going to be stuck on Deep Space Nine for the forseeable future and would try to make the best of it.
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Also, I just found out that Miles O'Brien took the assignment on Deep Space Nine because it represented a promotion from noncom to Ensign.
And, according to the novelization, the Cardassians occupied Bajor for over one hundred years, not the fifty or so mentioned in the series.
In summary, immediately after Wolf 359, Sisko requested an Earth based assignment, but was given a position at Utopia Plantia overseeing the reconstruction of the Fleet. When he was told he was being transferred to Deep Space Nine, he protested, but was told by Starfleet that his career had stalled at Utopia Plantia, so they were presenting him with a promotion and a challenge. Sisko didn't care about the promotion or career advancement and he thought about resigning and taking up a civilian job on Earth, but none of his inquiries had panned out, so he resigned himself to the fact that he was going to be stuck on Deep Space Nine for the forseeable future and would try to make the best of it.
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Also, I just found out that Miles O'Brien took the assignment on Deep Space Nine because it represented a promotion from noncom to Ensign.
And, according to the novelization, the Cardassians occupied Bajor for over one hundred years, not the fifty or so mentioned in the series.
I imagined him being attached to the task force that Shelby was assigned to to get the fleet back up to strength at the end of The Best of Both Worlds part 2 and under her command.
Yes, but even when that reference was made, he still wore the pips of a lieutenant. That was not changed until "Realm of Fear."
Those weren't pips, that was corn.
Where was this "you must be promoted and challenged" attitude when Riker was refusing promotion on TNG?
They were never serious about giving him a command.
Now the What If? portion of my brain has come up with the query: What if Frakes/Riker was offered the lead in DS9?
Bajor was resource depleted after being strip-mined.
My guess is they put a Starfleet officer with an engineering background in charge in order to oversee and coordinate various public works projects meant to get Bajor back on its feet.
Also, in Sisko's backstory, he was mentored by Curzon Dax, who was a highly-regarded ambassador. So I would assume there's at least some diplomatic experience based on that friendship.
Which is funny because the chain of command was always pretty vague for the lower ranks, I don't think anyone would have batted an eye at Lt. Barclay giving Lt. O'Brien an order.
Or even walked into the Transporter Room and told O'Brien that he was under orders from the Captain to find an answer and was instructed to tell O'Brien to follow his orders until the mission was finished. "Chief, I know we're of equal rank but Captain Picard gave me explicit instructions to get this thing solved. You're to help me with whatever I need."
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