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Poor Mayweather and Hoshi...still ensigns after 10 years. Advancement in Starfleet is shit. After 10 years they ought to be LT or even LCDR's. Typically after 2 years an ENS is promoted to LTJG, 2 years later to LT.
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10 years as Ensigns is just weird. My friend in the Navy is 33 and a LCDR (actually made it at 32) and was chief operations officer and then xo of a cruiser for a while. And that's pretty much how it usually goes. If he's ahead of the curve it isn't by too much. They should at least be LTs. And Reed should at least be a LCDR. Of course, it all depends if there are slots available for people of those ranks. Modern militaries don't promote if there isn't a position for that person to move into where that rank is appropriate.
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Um, yes... Mim posted that link on the last page But it does renew my curiosity as to exactly how prominently the Ent D will be displayed. I mean, what is this... and episode of The Next Generation?
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Ah, my bad. But yes, it IS an epsiode of TNG. Manny Coto recently went on record that he considers the current Demons / Terra Prime story as the "real" finale, while TATV is more of a finale to the current era of television.
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So I hear that now that some people have seen the actual episode, they are not quite so harsh on it as they were before.
Anyway, one problem I think I have with it is that, while the Federation's formation might be important to Star Trek, we haven't been given any reason to think its important to these particular characters. I mean, the audience knows that this is the logical endpoint of the series, but none of the characters do. This will only be the second or third mention of anything like the Federation by characters who aren't from the future, and the first one just appeared last week.
In other words, it has the feel of something imposed by the weight of the franchise, rather than a story developed out of this show and these characters.
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Right. Had the series gone on for another few years and the whole political alliance thing continued to build, this would have been a whole lot more resonant. As is, the finale should probably have focused on the end of the temporal cold war... too bad they already did away with that.
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I guess they also wanted to show that the 24th century did indeed know about the NX-01's missions.
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But it does renew my curiosity as to exactly how prominently the Ent D will be displayed. I mean, what is this... and episode of The Next Generation?
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