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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Darkwing: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [qb] Possibly the closest example I can think of right now is the USS Valiant, where the sickbay was apparently staffed by Chief Collins. Given that "Captain" Watters was such a stickler for the Starfleet ideal (hell, he promoted his XO to the rare FULL commander rank), I think that he'd have staffed his sickbay with a regular doctor or team thereof if the Valiant would regularly have one. After all, Julian was more often found on the bridge than in sickbay... Mark [/qb][/QUOTE]Don't get me started. "full" commander is simply commander, as opposed to lieutenant commander, frequently abbreviated to commander. But Valiant was a big mistake. Midshipmen are not in the military and have no commission to give them authority, and a captain has no legal authority to make them such. That's reserved for the federation council (or congress today). As an actually commissioned officer, Nog outranked any jumped-up cadet and was obligated to take command. Hell, as an E-5 in a deck rate, [i]I[/i] would have had the authority and obligation to do so in that situation. Had the writers decided to have Nog assert his authority and be rejected by the cadets out of a misguided sense of duty, or better yet, to accept the law, and then mutiny when he decided to take the valian home (as opposed to their desire to assault the Jemmie battleship), that would have made a stronger story. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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