T'Pol on Enterprise was before STXI, lol. She was also Vulcan and a science officer though, which I imagine is because SMRT Vulcans are being stereotyped as scientists. But she too was not actually in Starfleet, since she was an observer from the Vulcan High Command's Science Counsel. And at the time of Enterprise and XI, humans dominated Starfleet to such a degree that aliens were kind of... affirmative-action placed. Sort of thing. None of the other first officers I have seen from Enterprise served any other roles.
Number One from the original pilot was not a science officer, though idk what she was. This dude was XO and navigator. So.
Eh, I figure command structure wouldn't change that much. It's all based on naval command structure anyway, probably mostly British from the Napoleonic War even. Gene Roddenberry apparently described Star Trek as "Horatio Hornblower in space," lol. And it's been the same through Enterprise - Voyager, and is the same in ~future episodes~ so.
Poolboy sounds like a good idea... though where do they keep the pool on the spaceship?!?
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Date: 2009-07-08 12:16 am (UTC)Number One from the original pilot was not a science officer, though idk what she was. This dude was XO and navigator. So.
Eh, I figure command structure wouldn't change that much. It's all based on naval command structure anyway, probably mostly British from the Napoleonic War even. Gene Roddenberry apparently described Star Trek as "Horatio Hornblower in space," lol. And it's been the same through Enterprise - Voyager, and is the same in ~future episodes~ so.
Poolboy sounds like a good idea... though where do they keep the pool on the spaceship?!?