Who was the original chief science officer on Voyager?
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Or the desire of Janeway to give a "baptism of fire" to her newest officer.
It doesn't seem as if others joined the ship at DS9 besides Paris (who was apparently shuttled over from some other starship that had delivered him from New Zealand) and Kim (who was aboard the station but had not yet met either Paris or the Voyager crew). Janeway could well have been giving extra attention to the new junior officer, while allowing the Chief of Ops to sleep in - and thus supposedly perish in his or her sleep.
Timo Saloniemi
It doesn't seem as if others joined the ship at DS9 besides Paris (who was apparently shuttled over from some other starship that had delivered him from New Zealand) and Kim (who was aboard the station but had not yet met either Paris or the Voyager crew). Janeway could well have been giving extra attention to the new junior officer, while allowing the Chief of Ops to sleep in - and thus supposedly perish in his or her sleep.
Timo Saloniemi
Well, it would be Kim's station even if he were the most junior of all Ops personnel aboard.
This could go either way, since none of the dialogue is conclusive. Say, the CMO greets Kim as "a" new Ops officer, not "the"...
Of course everybody likes the new kid, all the more because he is rather apparently the only new kid to come aboard. Similarly, everybody hates Paris. The two are the center of attention no matter what their rank and position... But only the position of Paris is verbally established in an unambiguous manner, placing him safely at the very bottom of the barrel.
Could Ensigns be department heads? Supposedly Doctors Bashir and Lense got to pick their first major assignments thanks to doing well at the Academy, but we never meet them at their CMO positions before they have earned their second pips. And possibly LaForge or Worf could hold some sort of departmental top position during the first season of TNG, but they are already Lieutenants (j.g.) when we first meet them on the E-D.
Chekov is our only other Ensign character of note, and he was never established as chief of anything, either. To the contrary, people who outrank him are frequently seen in his chair. Sulu and Uhura are likelier candidates for department heads, but again there is no direct proof, and again they no longer are Ensigns.
Timo Saloniemi
This could go either way, since none of the dialogue is conclusive. Say, the CMO greets Kim as "a" new Ops officer, not "the"...
Of course everybody likes the new kid, all the more because he is rather apparently the only new kid to come aboard. Similarly, everybody hates Paris. The two are the center of attention no matter what their rank and position... But only the position of Paris is verbally established in an unambiguous manner, placing him safely at the very bottom of the barrel.
Could Ensigns be department heads? Supposedly Doctors Bashir and Lense got to pick their first major assignments thanks to doing well at the Academy, but we never meet them at their CMO positions before they have earned their second pips. And possibly LaForge or Worf could hold some sort of departmental top position during the first season of TNG, but they are already Lieutenants (j.g.) when we first meet them on the E-D.
Chekov is our only other Ensign character of note, and he was never established as chief of anything, either. To the contrary, people who outrank him are frequently seen in his chair. Sulu and Uhura are likelier candidates for department heads, but again there is no direct proof, and again they no longer are Ensigns.
Timo Saloniemi
Or he couldn't :P
But wouldn't you want someone familiar with these sort of things manning the science station instead of, you know...your chief of security?
He wasn't chief of security until he came onboard 
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