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What's the deal with enlisted Starfleet ranks? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/startrek

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O'Brien is a "chief," Jonas and Cutler hold the rank of "Crewman," and I think those are the only enlisted personnel who have lines and appear in more than one episode. Starfleet seems ridiculously officer heavy.

Is the enlisted/officer distinction different in Starfleet from traditional armed forces? And where are all the warrant officers?

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[–] Bunnylux 35 points 11 months ago (15 children)

It's only seems officer heavy because the main characters are ranked officers. You rarely see the hundreds of grunts.

[–] DigitalTraveler42 15 points 11 months ago (13 children)

Enterprise D has a complement of 1000+ personnel, yet it seems like we only see like 50 of them the entire series.

It would be nice if the next Trek series does something to address this.

[–] Bunnylux 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah like a big all staff meeting in the loading dock aha

[–] DigitalTraveler42 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or just making the hallways seem fuller with different background characters rather than the same characters roaming the mostly empty hallways.

[–] JWBananas 3 points 11 months ago

The Galaxy class really is that big though. The Severance levels of isolation in the hallways would actually be reasonable for its size.

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