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Earlier than that. When Troi was taking that test, Crusher mentioned she'd taken it and passed it. And she was left in command in "Descent 1"
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That reminds me of a little conflict of interest bith medical staff in the military that's been bothering me...I'm going to start a new thread...
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And you had that ep where they ran into a cosmic string, or something - Troi was ranking officer on the bridge, but just happened to be there, wasn't on duty - and you had the conflict with the actual bridge crew over whether she as a non-bridge officer could outrank/overrule them.
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Medical can be "OOD" on a "warship" - just not actually be the commanding officer. (and no, I don't mean to start an arguement about SF and warships, but they do have guns)
So, Crusher could stand a watch while getting her "quals" (the navy would call it a surface warfare qualification in current terms) and would then likely have the option of remaining on the watch bill.
Troi was the only officer on the bridge right? In which case she'd have the conn - though would be well served to have simply said "carry on chief" in most cases. (of course that is almost always a good idea )
USN doesn't have doctors in charge of their hospital ships either. They have a (usually civilian) ship's master that runs the ship and a doctor that runs the hospital. I question that any one person would have enough time to become a specialist in both fields.
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No, Troi was not the only officer on the bridge during "Disaster". The helmsman was the duty watch officer and she was a Lt. JG, but she was killed. The duty Ops officer was an Ensign. He survived. O'Brien was still wearing the Lieutenant pips, but we'll call him a CPO at this time as well. Then Ro came in and she was an Ensign. By all means none had command experience, but Ro and the duty Ops officer had more knowledge of ship operations so they would have made for a better temp commander in that situation.
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