I'm certain it's in the technical manual, on account of me never having looked at any of these other books. (Except the encyclopedia, which I checked.)
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So, apparently it did. But then later in the same scene, Kasinski says he wants to be taken directly to the engine room. Riker says, "I'll have our chief engineer take you there."
Which seems to imply there is only one chief engineer.
(And when taken with the evidence from the remainder of TNG's run when we only had one chief engineer - LaForge - I think the evidence points to a high turnover among the engineering staff).
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In the case of Logan, since he was only a Lieutennant, is it possible he was filling in for someone who was on leave or something? When he became a problem, they got rid of him.
That seems to account for three of the four.
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Blame Roddenberry. The whole cast of TNG seems to have been assembled in a rather half-assed way, a far cry from the way it was done in later shows (where they could say "Right, we need an Engineer, a Medical Officer, a Science Officer, a Security Officer, etc., one of whom might - or might not - also be the Female Sex Appeal and/or the Fish Out of Water Alien Trying To Get Used To Human Customs"). So you end up with a situation where there are too many people on the Bridge, no Chief Engineer, and almost no Engineering set until they hastily added a scene set there in "EatF" to justify the budget to build one.
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The Japanese guy playing with Wesley in the engine room was an assistant engineer of some kind. IIRC, he was in overalls, not a regular uniform, though he was sitting in the CE's office at one point, I believe, and had access to alot of systems. The lady pretty clearly outranked him, though.
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MacDougall: "THESE are CONTROL chipsss!!!!"
And let's not forget engineer Singh, who has the distinction of being the first crew member actually killed on TNG.
I once remember a discussion where we had concluded that the four folks through the first year were there on rotation to work out various bugs in the engines - never a permenant assignment, though for some of them it may have had that potential.
La Forge spent some time in Engineering in "11001001", which showed the producers that the actor fit in well in the role. The original irony was that the blind guy would be flying the ship, after all.
In the non-canon "Vendetta" novel, Argyle is found to have been transferred to the Excelsior-class USS Repulse, with the inexplicably sex-changed Captain Taggert at the helm. Kind of a step down from working on the Enterprise, really.
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Which ep was Singh in? I remember him now that you mention him... but I can't remember what ep he was in...
Didn't Q freeze someone to death during EaFP? Some random helmsman who foolishly went for a phaser? Or did he survive?
The explanation of the position being a rotating assignment makes sense. It would also rectify the contradiction with Argyle being the "Chief Engineer" and "one of our chief engineers (or Chief Engineers)."
"But then later in the same scene, Kasinski says he wants to be taken directly to the engine room. Riker says, 'I'll have our chief engineer take you there.'
"Which seems to imply there is only one chief engineer."
Or, only one on duty at any given time.
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So was Geordi LaForge the Enterprise's actual Chief Engineer seasons two through seven, or did he just happen to be the on-duty Chief Engineer coincidentally when all the cool shit happened?
I think a more rational explanation is that Riker either mispoke or was making a dig at the fact that Picard had already gone through one engineer and might've been looking to go through a second.
quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: MacDougall: "THESE are CONTROL chipsss!!!!"
And let's not forget engineer Singh, who has the distinction of being the first crew member actually killed on TNG.
I once remember a discussion where we had concluded that the four folks through the first year were there on rotation to work out various bugs in the engines - never a permenant assignment, though for some of them it may have had that potential.
La Forge spent some time in Engineering in "11001001", which showed the producers that the actor fit in well in the role. The original irony was that the blind guy would be flying the ship, after all.
In the non-canon "Vendetta" novel, Argyle is found to have been transferred to the Excelsior-class USS Repulse, with the inexplicably sex-changed Captain Taggert at the helm. Kind of a step down from working on the Enterprise, really.
Mark
Perhaps Argyle saw how often the Enterprise got in trouble and opted to serve on a less doomed ship
As for Taggert, he didn't get a sex change, he had a daughter
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