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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] I just remembered a good example: Crewman Harren from Voyager's "Good Shepherd." He had signed aboard as an enlisted man for one year, simply because the College of Astronomy or whatever on Orion I required field experience. The interesting point is that Voyager was originally assigned as a troubleshooter, as a patrol ship. What's so grand about chasing down Maquis fighters or stuff like that? Nothing, really. He was just there to do a job. Also, it occurred to me that on most of the outlying member worlds and colonies, things are not nearly as "civilized" as on Earth, Vulcan, or Betazed. The colonies are often resource-poor, and require lots of work to maintain the system and get food. A small colony of a few thousand (or even more) isn't likely to have the umpteen-gigawatt power sources to allow them to replicate any little thing they need, for example. I never actually answered the original question before... Why would I personally join Starfleet? Though command sounds cool, I really don't think that's something that I'd want to do. I'd like to be in the science department, somewhere like Stellar Cartography. Although some division where I could get assigned to the occasional away mission would be nice too. (I'd only hope that "normal" Starfleet ships don't have a Redshirt Mortality Rate that's as high as the Enterprise... ;) ) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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