Topic: The $poiler-$trewn $tar Trek Movie Rumour Di$cu$$ion Thread (Did I mention $poiler$?)
Daniel Butler
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Wait, really? Antarctica? Naked Scully (don't see anything unfortunately...)? Well to be fair, when it came out you were...jeez, when *did* it come out...imdb...ah, only 10 years ago. But you were a wee bairn weren't ye?
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Lets see, 10 years ago, I was obsessed with transformers and power rangers, but I knew what X-files was. I was in like what, first or second grade.
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Is that first or second grade after kindergarten, or first/second grad in high school? I can never remember how it works in America.
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Okey dokey. In England & Wales it's prety much the same.
You start at age six (year 1) and stay in "Primary School" until 11 (year 6). Years 1-2 are sometimes called "primary school", and 4-6 "junior school". Anything before year 1 is called pre-school (imaginative, huh).
At 12 you get to go to big boys (or girls, or both - mixed here, not co-ed) school. Years 7-11 are "high school", or "secondary school", after which you used to be able to leave (at age 16). Previously optional, but now compulsary is "Sixth Form", years 12-13 (so named from when the current year 7 was called "first year" and so on), and you leave at 18.
As for the Trek World, when exactly are you supposed to go to the acadamy. Is it like a university thing, or do you start earlier? Did we ever nail down The Boy's age when he did the entrance test?
And come to think of it, do you'al suppose that the age for enlisting is lower for non officer ranks than officers? Will they distinguish between the two in the film?
Gene Roddenbery thought that all the people we saw were officers, so does that mean we'll only see officer cadets?
So many questions! But wait - what the hell are they all doing at a Village People theme party, and where is the cowboy, the indian, the cop, the biker or the sailor?
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Well, maybe the academy is like boot camp, and then there is some sort of OCS, or for pilots, flight school, or Tactical school and so on.
I know in France they cound grades down from kindergarten. So Senior year in High school ( around 17yrs old) is year 1. If I survive being a Sophmore, I'll be happy.
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quote:Gene Roddenbery thought that all the people we saw were officers, so does that mean we'll only see officer cadets?
Um. Cadets, almost by definition, are in training to become officers. Enlisted personnel don't go to service Academies.
All right smarty pants.
What I meant was, given that outside of the Kirk era films, we've only seen a handfull of crew from the other ranks, is just about everyone in starfleet an officer?
I can cope with the idea as it's a civillian organisation the jobs that men and other ranks do in todays militaries could be done by junior officers, but I'd just like some on-screen clarity.
Is the Acadamy only for officers, or all who work for SF?
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I don't think Natalie Portman will get stoned like Carrie Fisher did though.
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Daniel Butler
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Too bad.
I was wondering about the academy last night too. What I was thinking was, do they have a usable degree after they get out? Like, if they serve for a few years in Starfleet as a warp field specialist, presumably having studied warp mechanics in the academy, then decide to resign, can they go to work somewhere as a civilian doing something with warp mechanics? Like how if you go into the military today and study computer science or something, then after you leave the military you have an actual computer science degree.
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