Star Trek question: Are there any Enlisted Personnel?

[yvr girl]

I've never noticed anyone below an ensign.

[LeftyMom]

1. yeah, but the only one we ever really see is Miles O'Brien on TNG and DS9

[philosophie_en_rose]

2. I think so. There was Chief O'Brien.

[LostinVA]

14. Chief's aren't enlisted -- he's an NCO

They've shown them before, but very, very rarely as a "real" character. I believe Picard was one in his "alternative life" plot. Wasn't Reg Enlisted, too?

[Benfea]

15. Meh, NCOs have more in common with enlisteds than brass. -NT

[sarge43]

16. Nope, Reg was a lieutenant as was Picard when Q played the switch

on him.

[sarge43]

17. Noncommissioned officers are enlisted

Now, chiefs can eat lieutenants and ensigns for breakfast, but guess who salutes first.

[Bassic]

20. Actually, at one point in DS9

O'Brien actually says he is enlsited personnel while talking to Bashir (I think)

Yes I know I'm a total geek.

[sarge43]

24. I remember that

I believe Worf's dad also spoke the classic "Don't call me sir; I work for a living."

Complete geek here.

[Bassic]

27. Glad to know I'm not alone

[sarge43]

30. Hardly

Trekkers have to have their own table over in the Geek Corner.

[Bassic]

31. True.

But I think I'm just one big all around geek, cause I like almost anything that's even remotely geeky.

[petronius]

3. They're pretty rare - the ratio seems to be around 10 officers to

every crewman (made-up estimate). I think those yellow-shirted security guys who follow Worf around are enlisted personnel, and maybe some of Geordi's peons are...

[sarge43]

13. Yeah, I've often wondered who did the scut work

ie who cleaned up after all those officers.

[kay1864]

4. Yes, according to the Star Trek Blueprints

It's just that we always saw the bridge, transporter room, and other happenin' places on the ship, so we saw mostly officers.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Yeah, but they all get killed

Every time there's a landing party to investigate something, it always has two nameless enlisted crewmen who get attacked by a flying gob of Gumby shit or something and die.

You'd think they'd catch on, wouldn't you?

And why is it the ship's top officers are always in a landing party and outnumber the plebes three to one?







"Right, how many did we lose?"

"Gawain..."

"Ector..."

"And Bors. That's five."

"Three, sir."

"Three."

[edbermac]

6. How about Private Bush and Corporal Rice?

[Ikonoklast]

7. Are they on the Starship Clueless?

Condi--"Captain, everyone has abandoned ship after we ran it into that asteroid on purpose! Who could've foreseen that?"

Capt. Oblivious--"Ah'm hungry. When's the pig gonna be ready?"

[eyesroll]

8. There were "crewmen" on Voyager, and I think on Enterprise-D.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

9. Yes there are

They were more noticeable on TOS. There were the ranks of Crewman, Yeoman and Chief Petty Officer.

[trogdor]

33. They wore those "hospital scrubs"

Really nasty orange uniforms. Bad, very bad. You could tell on TV they were sewn together by the lowest bidder.

[Parche]

10. star trek

Yeoman Rand??

[TheMightyFavog]

11. You mean Kirk's main source of sexual pleasure?

Come on, Everybody knows there was something going on between the two.

[sarge43]

12. Chief O'Brien is enlisted

Also, Worf's foster father, Sergi Rezjenko(sp)

Yeoman Rand

[ContraBass Black]

18. Crewman Suter from Voyager had his own story arc.

And then, there were those three "lost sheep" from Deck 15.

[Darth_Kitten]

19. The Captain's "Girl"

I thought every gal wanted to play this part. I mean, you get to work with THE William Shatner.



sorry.

[TheMightyFavog]

21. Didn't Shat and Angie Dickinson have a sex scene in some 70s movie?

[pokerfan]

22. Nine Reasons Why a Starfleet Education Won't Prepare You for the Real Navy

Reason #1: Unlike Starfleet, where the ratio of officers to enlisted personnel is roughly 100:1, and where the only apparent purpose of enlisted personnel is to provide anonymous crew members to be killed by alien life forms, the Navy is highly dependent on the expertise, skills and efforts of its enlisted members.

http://www.lukeswartz.com/mccomas.html

[sarge43]

25. Something for the "I kid you not" file

When I was a TI (recruit wrangler), we had one eager young space cadet tell us she enlisted because she wanted to live just like they did on Star Trek.

[ComerPerro]

23. that's because, like all enlisted men, they are unimportant and expendable

in the eyes of their officers.

[genie_weenie]

26. Only officers can be heros,

save the galaxy, defeat the Borg, stop the warp core from exploding, make the sexy aliens succumb to their charms...

[sarge43]

29. Well, that's what we tell 'em anyway

[LibertyLover]

28. Yeoman Janice Rand

from the original series should count as enlisted personnel.

[LaraMN]

32. Yvr! Hi sweetie!

How are you doing?!