Who was the best chief engineer

Discussion in 'General Trek Discussion' started by Gabriel, Dec 19, 2018.

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Who’s the best

Poll closed Jan 2, 2019.
  1. Commander Tucker (Trip)

    7.7%
  2. LT/LCDR Stamets

    1.5%
  3. LCDR/CMDR/CAPT Scott (Scotty)

    61.5%
  4. LT/LCDR La Forge

    7.7%
  5. Senior Chief petty officer O’Brien

    16.9%
  6. LT JG Torres

    4.6%
  1. Discofan

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    It's hard to believe that nearly three hundred years later, History wasn't corrected yet. I mean even the deepest state secrets have an expiration date.
     
  2. marlboro

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    That guy was so good, he was getting votes even before this thread was posted.
     
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  3. The Wormhole

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    Section 31 was involved.
     
  4. Discofan

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    So the attack of the pirates in TATV never happened?
     
  5. Mojochi

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    Scotty literally defeated death for 80 years with nothing but a pattern buffer. Everybody else lives in the shadow of his greatness
     
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  6. Discofan

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    I am not crazy about his pattern though...
     
  7. Nyotarules

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    He winked, plus it was a crap plot its the only thing that makes sense
     
  8. Nyotarules

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    In the future rank won't have any privileges
     
  9. The Wormhole

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    It was staged for the benefit of the rest of the crew.
     
  10. Nyotarules

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    Nope. As the books states, ten years after a major incident like the Romulan War, Earth's first interstellar war and no one moves up rank or changes ship??? That's too much Rikerisation
     
  11. Discofan

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    Which were nowhere to be found in the simulation.
     
  12. Farscape One

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    Not sure about that. When Picard promotes Wesley to full Ensign, he says something along the lines of having all the privileges and responsibilities of that rank.
     
  13. The Wormhole

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  14. Discofan

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    That could just be a pure formality, like when people say "don't let the door hit you on your way out" they don't really expect that to happen...
     
  15. Farscape One

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    So you are saying people will treat a captain the same way they will treat an ensign?

    Hogwash.
     
  16. Nyotarules

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    Which meant for Wesley, less people telling him to shut up
     
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  17. Nyotarules

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    How many sixteen year olds get to be acting ensigns in the navy with no training just cos they are genuises?
     
  18. Farscape One

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    Exactly.

    Even Kirk once said, "Rank has its privileges."
     
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  19. Gabriel

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    I disagree. If Frank had no privileges then we would I’m not have seen anybody get the demoted. Hence in voyager when Janeway to demotes Paris. Also rank does have meaning when in day of honor in voyager when Paris says to Torres “you can’t order me out because I out rank you.” That is true Paris did out rank her then. So rank does matter because basically helmsman is defying the chief engineer because he out ranks her
     
  20. Gabriel

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    Also guys this is chief engineer not ranks. If you want to talk about if ranks have privileges in the future that I’ll be happy to start a thread.