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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] A couple of arguments, both recycled and new (to this week's discussion anyway, although they probably are reruns from last summer): 1) People in the 24th century may try out flying in a stupid tin can because they have already tried out everything else. Starfleet could be one career out of the twenty-two an average long-lived and thoroughly trained no-worries citizen of the UFP is going to pursue during a normal lifetime (Bashir Sr. was just living a variant of that, aiming for 239 careers per lifetime the rate he was going). Only a minuscule portion of these people actually stick with Starfleet for more than a few years. Those who do get to go to the cool exploration cruises. And the fact that Our Heroes enlisted at 18 or so is just a statistical illusion. Many others join at 32 or 68, explaining the multitude of low-ranking officers of age aboard the Enterprises. 2) Personnel in Starfleet are extensively rotated, so you don't get stuck with polishing the doorknobs of a depot ship. Only the more eccentric of the top officers insist on staying aboard a given assignment for any length of time. 3) People enlisting in Starfleet may just happen to have a death wish. Out of trillions, you will easily find a few million suicidees to fill your ships with - that's what personnel management databases were invented for. 4) Finding volunteers may not be a problem even without using such a search engine. If boredom is the greatest threat they have ever faced, their values will be skewed accordingly. Ending up with a menial job is not objectionable when compared with the boredom of no job at all. Nor is dying in the hands of an Alphabetan Bugomite. Those are alien experiences and thus do not appear nearly as threatening as the Devil They Know. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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