So, I'm watching ST:TNG

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Lt. Barclay.

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Something I can state for this show is that it has aged well. It doesn't seem as though it was created in the late eighties, and I suppose that has to do with the futuristic aspect.

Very few shows age well that are worth repeated watching, that is probably why this series is the highest rated in the Star Trek Universe.

Which reminds me, I probably should give Buffy the Vampire Slayer a rewatch.

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Data robot-napped.

Plus, Saul Rubinek

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I thought I recognized a young Rocco Sisto

The tall Vulcan on the left.

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It is the scent that first speaks of love. ~ Lt. Worf

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I had a question along the lines of In Star Trek, they must sleep sometimes. Who is manning the bridge as the ship flies through space?

The answer

The concept of ‘duty watches’ aboard a starship didn’t get a lot of attention on Star Trek until TNG dealt with it in episodes like ‘Data’s Day’ and the ‘Chain of Command’ two-parter.

The way duty watches typically work on a normal US Navy warship is along the lines of a three-shift day. The ship’s captain might typically be on the bridge for the first watch as the commanding officer, then the first officer might typically take the conn on the second watch, and the second officer would be on the bridge for the third watch (Sometimes these officers may then delegate command to junior officers for various reasons). Each watch would have enough crew members assigned to perform the ship’s routine ship-handling, engineering, communications, and other necessary tasks, All watches report for duty during battlestations or similar drills.

Star Trek is consistent with the Navy way of doing things, to a point. When a yellow or red alert is declared, we tend to see reinforcement crewmembers arriving on the bridge; when a bridge crewman is selected for an away team, a replacement is dispatched to the bridge.

Where it diverges is in the tendency to have the show’s cast of characters generally focus on the ship’s (or station’s) senior officers, resulting in the narrative’s demand to have the captain and first officer in the same control room week after week. Thus, Captain Pike’s first officer doubled as the Chief Helmsman to keep both characters on the Enterprise’s bridge; Kirk’s first officer doubled as the ship’s chief science officer for the same purpose. Picard’s first officer had no secondary role, but was still at his captain’s side each week. If Star Trek duty shifts and chain of command worked like the Navy, you would never see Kirk and Spock in the same place except at watch relief / shift change. During the Enterprise’s non-alert posture, Spock would be in charge of the second watch, and would also not be trying to do two vital jobs at once. During alert posture, Spock would be manning the Auxiliary Control Room in case the Bridge gets put out of action somehow. Scotty wouldn’t be third in command - that role should have been filled by a gold-shirted command-branch Chief Navigator or Chief Tactical Officer with the rank of lieutenant commander. Riker should have been in the Enterprise-D’s Battle Bridge, ready for the Battle Section to operate independently after ship separation…

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It is the scent that first speaks of love.  ~ Lt. Worf

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I had a question along the lines of In Star Trek, they must sleep sometimes. Who is manning the bridge as the ship flies through space?

The answer

The concept of ‘duty watches’ aboard a starship didn’t get a lot of attention on Star Trek until TNG dealt with it in episodes like ‘Data’s Day’ and the ‘Chain of Command’ two-parter.

The way duty watches typically work on a normal US Navy warship is along the lines of a three-shift day. The ship’s captain might typically be on the bridge for the first watch as the commanding officer, then the first officer might typically take the conn on the second watch, and the second officer would be on the bridge for the third watch (Sometimes these officers may then delegate command to junior officers for various reasons). Each watch would have enough crew members assigned to perform the ship’s routine ship-handling, engineering, communications, and other necessary tasks, All watches report for duty during battlestations or similar drills.

Star Trek is consistent with the Navy way of doing things, to a point. When a yellow or red alert is declared, we tend to see reinforcement crewmembers arriving on the bridge; when a bridge crewman is selected for an away team, a replacement is dispatched to the bridge.

Where it diverges is in the tendency to have the show’s cast of characters generally focus on the ship’s (or station’s) senior officers, resulting in the narrative’s demand to have the captain and first officer in the same control room week after week. Thus, Captain Pike’s first officer doubled as the Chief Helmsman to keep both characters on the Enterprise’s bridge; Kirk’s first officer doubled as the ship’s chief science officer for the same purpose. Picard’s first officer had no secondary role, but was still at his captain’s side each week. If Star Trek duty shifts and chain of command worked like the Navy, you would never see Kirk and Spock in the same place except at watch relief / shift change. During the Enterprise’s non-alert posture, Spock would be in charge of the second watch, and would also not be trying to do two vital jobs at once. During alert posture, Spock would be manning the Auxiliary Control Room in case the Bridge gets put out of action somehow. Scotty wouldn’t be third in command - that role should have been filled by a gold-shirted command-branch Chief Navigator or Chief Tactical Officer with the rank of lieutenant commander. Riker should have been in the Enterprise-D’s Battle Bridge, ready for the Battle Section to operate independently after ship separation…

Three section duty on a ship is rare in my experience.

2 section - port and starboard duty sections - were more the norm- meaning 12 hour shifts....

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She certainly put Riker in his place. Honestly, he is getting on my nerves anyway. Either he's dying soon, he's taking command of his own ship as he should, or he's going to annoy me more by remaining on the Enterprise.

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Well, I did see it coming.

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Data robot-napped.

Plus, Saul Rubinek

And to make the performance even more amazing, Rubinek was a last minute stand-in after filming of the episode began.

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All those ships coming to fight The Borg alongside The Enterprise.

Clearly, Picard was well loved.

Yet, none of those ships were used in any way. Lame.

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Suddenly, in season four, Wesley is super tan. Where'd his ghostly pallor go?

But, Wesley has brown eyes and both his parents have blue eyes.

Momma cheated.