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Okay, lets see if we can come up with some sort of departmental staff breakdown that would be logical for the Enterprise-D. Even if we keep it basic... 10% officer, 10% security, 15% medical, etc (numbers not realistic).

What do we think?

I'll start off: No more than 30% officers, so 300 officers, 700 enlisted?
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Can't be. In all of 'Trek, I think I saw one current enlisted man and one retired.
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Well, I remember reading somewhere that Enterprise carried around 300 civilians. Picard once stated that Enterprise had 1,024 people aboard, so that would leave roughly seven hundred starfleet personel. I think my breakdown would be 50 officers of Lt Cmdr and above, 150 of the Ltjg and Lt grades, 100 or so ensigns (don't want TO many rookies in the same place) 50 or so seinor enlisted (to babysit) 200 midranked enlisted (to actually do the work) and around 150 junior enlisted, still learning proverbially not to pee into the wind.
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Mark wrote:Well, I remember reading somewhere that Enterprise carried around 300 civilians. Picard once stated that Enterprise had 1,024 people aboard, so that would leave roughly seven hundred starfleet personel. I think my breakdown would be 50 officers of Lt Cmdr and above, 150 of the Ltjg and Lt grades, 100 or so ensigns (don't want TO many rookies in the same place) 50 or so seinor enlisted (to babysit) 200 midranked enlisted (to actually do the work) and around 150 junior enlisted, still learning proverbially not to pee into the wind.
50 officers of Lt. Cmdr and above seems absurdly high!
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Mark wrote:Well, I remember reading somewhere that Enterprise carried around 300 civilians. Picard once stated that Enterprise had 1,024 people aboard, so that would leave roughly seven hundred starfleet personel. I think my breakdown would be 50 officers of Lt Cmdr and above, 150 of the Ltjg and Lt grades, 100 or so ensigns (don't want TO many rookies in the same place) 50 or so seinor enlisted (to babysit) 200 midranked enlisted (to actually do the work) and around 150 junior enlisted, still learning proverbially not to pee into the wind.
50 officers of Lt. Cmdr and above seems absurdly high!
Granted, I'm guessing, but with the exception of then Lieutenant Worf, each department head was a Lt Cmdr. I'm guessing that each science division had it's own dept head, (like the captains girlfriend). One for the marine biology dept, one for xenobiology, one for zoo ology, one for astrophysics, one for stellar cartagraphy, and so on and so forth. I don't feel that its unreasonable to guess at a ballpark of 25 or so different science teams, considering the main mission of the ship, so there are 25 Lt. Cmdrs right there. Factor in the main characters, again discounting Worf as a Lt, and never counting Wesley that brings the count up by 6 more to 31. Now, assuming Enterprise got some of the best doctors out there, we can most likely assume a couple more of equel rank (under the CMO of course) with specialties like alien medicine, pediatrics (kids aboard), and so on. To keep it even, let's say 4. Now we're up to 35. Then we have the thankless and gloryless tasks we would NEVER see on the show, like the poor schlubs in the admin section, like personel and so forth. Figure a few more trickeled in there, and it's not so absurd after all, don't you think?
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Star fleet seems to have an over large number of officers. I wouldnt be suprised if a GCS could have 50+ of them.
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You'd imagine they'd at least be refferenced in the show, though.

As far as I see it, we have about a dozen or so people of LT CMDR rank or higher, with large amounts of lower-ranking officers and a moderate amount of enlisted personel.
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Why would the head of marine exobiology need to be a Lt. Cmdr.? That kind of top-heavy organization is worse than the current US military.
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Exactly. Particularly considering that there'd probably be only about a dozen people under him.
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Some of the Science heads could be Civillians who have been given a nominal rank to allow them to function, likely under some sort of term contract...
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True, but I doubt those ranks would go as high as lieutenant commander. Simply lieutenant would do.
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Most likely yes, I was just saying that that type of thing should be taken into account when looking at Rank Distribution.
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Ah, right.
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Rochey wrote:True, but I doubt those ranks would go as high as lieutenant commander. Simply lieutenant would do.
Thats more what I was thinking. No more than 10 Lt. Commanders tops, I'd think. I always thought the Enterprise/Enterprise-A was silly by the movies. Captains Kirk, Spock, Scotty... Commanders Chekov, Uhura, McCoy, etc
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Rochey wrote:True, but I doubt those ranks would go as high as lieutenant commander. Simply lieutenant would do.
Thats more what I was thinking. No more than 10 Lt. Commanders tops, I'd think. I always thought the Enterprise/Enterprise-A was silly by the movies. Captains Kirk, Spock, Scotty... Commanders Chekov, Uhura, McCoy, etc
It worked as far as TMP thru IV. In TMP you had high ranking officers, true, but I did not think it was really out of hand. McCoy had retired and Chapel had logically stepped up as Doctor, Chekov was a lieutenant, the others I think either commanders or lieutenant commanders. And in II they were instructors so you would expect high rank due to seniority. V is sort of out there on it's own and I really do not want to touch it, but by VI everyone should have gone their seperate ways. Personally I would have loved to have seen Chekov as Sulu's XO and Chapel as his CMO, Uhura as Kirk's XO, Scotty working as an administrator at some shipyard and Spock resigned his commission to work with his father. Then the band gets back together for one last tour.

I think it would have been awesome to see Sulu dealing with Chekov and Chapel like Kirk did with McCoy and Spock. Have Chekov and Chapel agreeing all the time and Sulu saying how it just did not feel right. :)
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