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10-23-2006, 02:34 AM
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Which branch of Starfleet?
Here's a new (I think
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10-23-2006, 03:25 AM
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My chosen field (chemistry) would seem to indicate the Sciences, but there actually isn't a lot of fieldwork on the final frontier, except for environmental chemistry, which we won't discuss. It's so hard to get chemicals, equipment and funding when you're under attack every other week.
I'd go with command. I've got delusions of leadership (call it a Hornblower complex), and that centre chair looks rather comfy.
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10-23-2006, 03:52 AM
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Just every other week? So you're never attacked this week. This isn't any OTHER week, you know.
Whose Line points for anyone who gets the subtle literary reference! I wonder if Hornblower and Kirk really have any simularities. So you're a "re not er" fan. I'm on the fence. I'm enough of a twit to say that a place with a stage is a theatre and a place with a screen is a theater. But then again, not so much of a fan of centre and so on. Which captain's chair? Not Kirks, I hope. The back's too low and I never really did get into leather upholstery. If it's too cold you can feel it all too easily, and if it's too hot it sticks to your thighs. Hey, I'm sure any field you can major in at Starfleet Academy can have missions associated with it. We just never see them because sloshing chemicals from one flask to another is kinda McCoy's schick, and we don't want to be stepping on his toes, do we? Besides, how dramatic is "boldly going" to the lab? 
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10-23-2006, 04:29 AM
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Well, I've always thought the Ops officer has a cool job. Just make sure the engineers don't fix something they can't bypass and that the sciences share the sensors, and you get a bridge chair and a senior officer role. Not bad.
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10-23-2006, 10:13 AM
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...Intelligence.
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10-23-2006, 12:36 PM
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I don't think I actually have any talents useful to Starfleet. Unless they need people with a foot in both history and archaeology. Would that indicate sciences?
Ideally, I'd go for Intelligence...
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