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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MarianLH: [QB] Pardon me for resurrecting an old thread, but this has on my mind lately. (On the other hand, I've also been down with the flu this week, so maybe it's just delirium.) As I expand my breakdown of officers on the TMP-ST VI [i]Enterprise[/i] to include enlisted crew, I've run into some more questions that have me stumped. Once again I'd like to "think out loud" and see what other minds and fresh perspectives can come up with. [QUOTE]Quoth me: [i]Do you think Starfleet ships have bosuns?[/i][/QUOTE]What exactly do bosuns do? Why is it not enough, from a standpoint of personnel management, to have enlisted personnel report to the officer in charge of whatever section they're assigned to? For example, say there's a transporter operator, Petty Officer Skirn. He has a superior in the form of whatever junior officer is in charge of the transporter rooms. Junior reports, in turn, to the Chief Engineer, who reports to the First Officer. So what does the bosun do for PO Skirn that Junior can't? Also, the [i]term[/i] "bosun" seems out of place in Starfleet, even in the company of "yeoman" and "midshipman" et al. I'm at a loss to come up with an alternative term. Another puzzle is machinist's mates. Presumable, someone has the job of providing routine maintainance and minor repair (as opposed to damage control) on various systems. [URL=http://www.st-spike.org/pages/uniforms/2278-2350/divisions.htm]Bob Fletcher's chart[/URL] included an entry for "machinist's mates" in the Engineering department. Up until now what I've been doing is assigning one or more machinist's mates to each department, as part of their normal watch. For example, a phaser room watch consists of an NCO in charge, two gunner's mates, and a machinist's mate. But that's starting to look wrong to me. It would take them out of Engineering and put them in whatever department they're assigned to--unless they stay in Engineering, in which case they aren't under the command of the officer in charge of their department. Which sounds awkward at best. I'm up to 143 crew so far, incidentally. Transporter Control is the biggest so far, with 18 NCOs and 19 enlisted, plus the two officers on my old breakdown. Marian [/QB][/QUOTE]
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