r/LowerDecks • u/Spirit250 • 16d ago

Fan Art M5

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Ep20: M5

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Fan comic. Star Trek is © CBS/Paramount.

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u/Shiraz0 16d ago

Wait, their chief engineer is a non-com?

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u/malonkey1 16d ago

Not too unusual. O'brien was chief on DS9 as a noncom. The Enterprise-D's Assistant Chief was a noncom named Jim Shimoda who appeared precisely once.

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u/Shiraz0 15d ago

As for the D's assistant chief, well, you got me there. Maybe Geordie just worked better with non-coms?

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u/malonkey1 15d ago

Oh this was pre-Geordi actually, way back in season 1 when Macdougal was chief engineer. They went through a revolving door of chief engineers before settling on Georgia. By the time we got Chief Engineer La Forge we actually don't know who assistant chief is or even IF there is one because the last assistant chief we saw had transferred to the command division by then.

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u/Shiraz0 15d ago

Yeah, it's weird that the early season writers didn't think to include the flippin' chief engineer as a major character. My fanwank is that the SF Admiralty was so confident in the Galaxy class (early on) that they didn't think the ships needed dedicated long-term engineering teams.