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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Darkwing: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Phoenix: [qb] Yes, I am staying in the reality of the show. Isn't that what we're meant to do? I am not trying to figure out what Paramount wanted it to be like. I am using the evidence in the show to come up with a plausible description of how the fictional Star Trek world works. Regarding the Senior Chief thing, it is perfectly possible that Starfleet's term for Technical Specialists (or any other grade for that matter) who are at my hypothetical WO grade is Senior Chief Technical Specialist (ie they were Technical Specialist at PO, Chief Technical Specialist at CPO, and when they become WOs, they get a "Senior" to show how important they are). I know its not how the US Navy works, but Starfleet is not the US Navy. Think how much different our naval ranks are to those of 400 years ago. The "Starfleet just must be identical to the US Navy or the universe will collapse" attitude, while it seems to be popular, is neither proven nor realistic. [/qb][/QUOTE]OK, you work out a rationale from within the show, whereas I see where the writers/producers were coming from when they did it. IMO, that's a more viable method of arriving at explanations, but there's nothing saying one approach or the other is the only one allowed. Yes, ranks changed a lot in 400 years, and will again, but Trek is not about what will happen then. It's about using then as a backdrop to tell morality tales about today, and therefore uses familiar elements to ease the viewer's transition, juxtaposed with alien elements to slip the moral past our defenses. SF was created with a US Navy structure in order to be more familiar to the viewer, and tampering with the rank structure then reduces the familiarity of the background, jolting suspension of disbelief. The universe wouldn't end if it changed, but it would interfere with telling the story. Therefore, I prefer not to mix systems, because that seems to be the most realistic attitude to me. Realistic in the sense of not rocking the boat over background. Save that for important plot points, like a crewman mutinying contrary to his apparent personality. Change too many details, and plot points get lost. We won't know when somebody's out-of-character, because we'll be used to reality shifting all the time. A show needs a solid foundation for it's backstory and background elements. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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