this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
269 points (99.6% liked)
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name
3708 readers
571 users here now
/c/TenFoward: Your home-away-from-home for all things Star Trek!
Re-route power to the shields, emit a tachyon pulse through the deflector, and post all the nonsense you want. Within reason of course.
~ 1. No bigotry. This is a Star Trek community. Remember that diversity and coexistence are Star Trek values. Any post/comments that are racist, anti-LGBT, or generally "othering" of a group will result in removal/ban.
~ 2. Keep it civil. Disagreements will happen both on lore and preferences. That's okay! Just don't let it make you forget that the person you are talking to is also a person.
~ 3. Use spoiler tags. This applies to any episodes that have dropped within 3 months prior of your posting. After that it's free game.
~ 4. Keep it Trek related. This one is kind of a gimme but keep as on topic as possible.
~ 5. Keep posts to a limit. We all love Star Trek stuff but 3-4 posts in an hour is plenty enough.
~ 6. Try to not repost. Mistakes happen, we get it! But try to not repost anything from within the past 1-2 months.
~ 7. No General AI Art. Posts of simple AI art do not 'inspire jamaharon'
~ **8. Political commentary is allowed, but please keep discussions civil. Read here for our community's expectations.
Fun will now commence.
Sister Communities:
Want your community to be added to the sidebar? Just ask one of our mods!
Honorary Badbitch:
@jawa21@startrek.website for realizing that the line used to be "want to be added to the sidebar?" and capitalized on it. Congratulations and welcome to the sidebar. Stamets is both ashamed and proud.
Creator Resources:
Looking for a Star Trek screencap? (TrekCore)
Looking for the right Star Trek typeface/font for your meme? (Thank you @kellyaster for putting this together!)
founded 10 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I've always wondered: who is in charge of the ship while the Captain and their Number One are asleep?
Like, wouldn't a starship realistically need a rotating staff and be manned at all times?
Edit: Doody shifts. Hehehehehehe.
There's one episode where Data takes over for night watch.
Yes, Beverly Crusher, too.
Crusher actually took the Bridge Officers test solely so she could stand watch.
Wasn't there an episode where Troy took that test and kept failing it?
And he ordered everyone to bed.
I'm pretty sure I've seen Star Trek episodes where they wake the captain because something happened during one of the other shifts.
Edit: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Duty_shift
edit: spelling
What a yutz!
[clarinet noises]
The night crew, of course.
NIGHT CREEEEEEW!!!
Beer me!
There are officers in chatge of different watches on naval vessels. You don't want someone equal to the captain running things, potentially undermining each other. A senior officer would oversee the night watch while the captain sleeps.
They have duty shifts, each will have an officer in command. In a three-shift system (i.e. where each shift lasts 8 hours), you might have the captain commanding the day shift, the first officer the second shift, and another more junior officer on the night shift. Other times (like when Jellico commanded the Enterprise) there can be a four-shift system. If something important happens when the captain is off duty or asleep then the shift commander can always wake the captain - but the vast majority of the time (i.e. all the days in between episodes, which we never see) then nothing eventful happens during the night shift.
On the Enterprise D, Data often commanded the night shift since he didn't need any sleep, but in principle any officer (even at Lt Junior Grade or Ensign) could be put in command.
I ended reading up a load on this for a Star Trek Adventures game.
Ensign Harry Kim
Picard ran the ship with the shifts per day. Jellico tried moving to a four shift rotation, there was some resistance from the senior staff.