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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I would imagine that the people who represent "academic training" in Starfleet, like doctors and science officers and possibly clergymen, get their promotions more easily than red- or yellowshirts. They would basically be staff officers, their rank somewhat "honorary" but their powers and responsibilities lower than those of red- or yellowshirts of equal or even lesser rank. Blueshirts could take special courses in command-related areas to slowly work their way into the command structure, though, like the doctors of the E-D seem to have done. Bashir probably took the command courses in the Academy already (he could afford to, with his superintellect), and thus has always had more command duties than the other doctors. Still, Cmdr is the highest blueshirt rank explicitly seen so far, if one excludes McCoy's flag rank. And Lt.Cmdr is the highest yellowshirt one in the TNG era. But I wouldn't think of these as any sort of ceiling or anything - it's just that we don't visit facilities where high-ranking blueshirts would work, and by coincidence we haven't spotted any of those thousands of Security Cmdrs and Captains yet. As for Eddington saying a yellowshirt can't make Captain, I thought Sisko just said to him that he couldn't become a starship captain without changing the color of his shirt. He could probably become a Security or Engineering officer of Captain rank or higher, but would not be allowed to command a starship. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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