Regaining a rank is still, should be considered still a promotion and it coming just a year and a half later does feel really soon and unearned.
Why Didn't Harry Get Promoted?
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Regaining a rank is still, should be considered still a promotion and it coming just a year and a half later does feel really soon and unearned.
Plus, they kinda missed an opportunity there. When Harry visited Tom in "Thirty Days", he could have had Tom's rank pip. After all, the ship was down a lieutenant, and had an extra ensign. But reversing their ranks would have brought a new wrinkle to their friendship.
Worf was married to the love of his life. Not for as long as would have been nice, but at least Worf had that experience; plenty of people never do.
Still waiting for Lieutenant
We don't really know that they didn't. It's possible that they had other assignments during the war (like Sisko and Dax in DS9 Season 6, or Worf in Season 7), but returned to the Enterprise by the time of Insurrection.
Well, we know they didn't get promotions. All their ranks stayed the same until the end of Nemesis.
Now now, maybe they did a Reverse Tom Paris(tm).
With Picard and Riker, that made sense. They refused promotion to higher-ranking jobs.
With Data and Geordi, it did not. If Deanna and Beverly could be full commanders, so could they. And certainly the second officer and chief engineer of the frickin' flagship deserved to have a rank befitting their status.
With Worf, it did... but only because he messed up in "Change of Heart", which might have slowed his advancement.
Well...that would be drama and we can't have that with Harry and Tom on Voyager of all places.
Geordi did all right on the promotions front, he went from JG to LCDR in two years, which was the rank held by all the other E-D ChEngs, so I'd say that him stalling at LCDR makes a certain amount of sense given that he kept the same function and arguably even gave up a "seniority point" as he appears to have dropped below Worf in the "chain of command" after becoming ChEng.
Final ranks were as follows, if I remember right:
Picard: Admiral
Riker: Captain (staying put really did hurt his career)
Geordi: Commodore
Worf: Captain
Data: Lt. Commander (frocked for Commander, but died before Riker could get around to leaving)
Not sure if Beverly or Deanna rose any higher.
Picard: Admiral
Riker: Captain (staying put really did hurt his career)
Geordi: Commodore
Worf: Captain
Data: Lt. Commander (frocked for Commander, but died before Riker could get around to leaving)
Not sure if Beverly or Deanna rose any higher.
^^Beverly made Admiral at the end of the finale.
Was referred to as Admiral in dialogue, but wore the insignia of a Commodore.
Assuming she is both the head of Starfleet medical organisation (aka the Starfleet Surgeon General) and the Head of Starfleet Medical (Annex/Academy), then her being a full flag officer (IRL even the British equivalent is a 2-star and the US Armed Forces have several 3-stars in equivalent roles).
Ranks on Trek are screwy that way. Given the size of the fleet Sisko was commanding, he should have been a RADM at the very least.
Either that or he should have remained as Ross' Chief of Staff/Fleet Captain and Ross should have commanded the fleet.
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