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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Sands: [QB] Point taken about Tasha Yar, Woodside. I think you're right on further reflection. That would go for the chief medical officer too. That said, perhaps Worf should have been a Warrant Officer that first season. I agree that most people with doctorates would not be happy about being a warrant offcer, though the logic would stand for the non-leadership physicians. Although educational titles raises a whole different issue of how a society that advanced would entitle different levels of education. In law, it used to be the only thing you got was an LLB. Eventually that was changed to the JD. But now they have more levels, the LLM and the SJD. The people in the military I've talked to have said they'd be insane to boss around someone more learned than they are, even if they are enlisted. With ensigns pushing around warrant officers, I'm sure many would eventually catch on that it's in their interest to cultivate relationships with their specialists, treat them as more competent than they are, and defer to their opinions more often. Troi I never saw leading anyone until she became a bridge officer, so I think counselers could still be plausibly classified as such. As for the yeoman promotion problem, I actually asked this same question on this board's predecessor about 5 years ago. A yeoman is typically a chief petty officer who performs clerical duties. I think it's more a title, not a rank. In theory, officers could be yeoman too. There are plenty of O-5s in the Pentagon who are probably working many of the same functions for O-7s and above as part of their ticket-punching. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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