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[wook77]

Canon questions. Do we know winona's last name? Do we know what track George followed? Pilot or navigator? So I know that Jim was command track but if he'd ended up first officer, what would he have been? Like Spock is the science officer so what would kirk have been?

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[midnitemaraud-r.livejournal.com]

You mean if he had been first officer? Or are you talking about when Pike promoted him in the movie?

You don't normally go from cadet to high command (first officer or captain). After graduating the academy, Kirk would have been a lieutenant. I don't think he would have been a science officer either though - it just doesn't suit him. I mean, Picard? Science officer material. Jim was brilliant, but he strikes me as someone who would have felt that analysis is boring. :-P

George could have also been a navigator or weapons officer, but he could also have been a science officer. I don't think there's any canon about that - at least at the time of Jim's birth. Hell, according to Trek doctrine, married couples (and I think siblings as well) never served on the same ships at that time, so George and Winona being on the same ship in the movie total went against Trek canon.

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

Helm usually doubles as tactical (firing weapons). There wasn't a seperate tactical station on the bridge until TNG era ships, I think? There's an engineering station, science station, comms station, helm, navigation, and command chair standard on Pike and Kirk's bridges, but we rarely saw otehr ships besides Enterprise, and there may well be other stations that are there, just not identified (in AOS, for example, there are a half dozen other stations manned by unnamed officers from sciences and operations along the back wall of the bridge, on either side of Science Station and Communications).

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

There were married coupels on the same starships in TOS. Kirk performas a wedding of two command division officers in "Balance of Terror (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Balance_of_Terror_(episode))". And in fanon, Captain Robert April served with his wife, Sarah Poole, who was CMO.

There just aren't children/families on starships in the 23rd century, or civilians unless they're being couriered to someplace or on special assignment.