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To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)

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[X][RA] Rear Admiral Nyota Uhura
[X][FLT] Commodore Victoria Eaton
[X][GND] Commodore T'Lorel
 
Nash strikes me a a former tactical/helm officer as it is the most hands-on visceral way to interact with the ship, and she is all about ship. How the ship moves, how the ship sounds as she is getting pushed hard. How she feels eager under her hands, and dances in the stellar winds.


I need a cold shower now.
 
That sounds more like an engineer's thing, knowing everything about a ship and how it behaves, and how to coax every bit of performance out of it.
 
ClawClawBite said:
Nash strikes me a a former tactical/helm officer as it is the most hands-on visceral way to interact with the ship, and she is all about ship. How the ship moves, how the ship sounds as she is getting pushed hard. How she feels eager under her hands, and dances in the stellar winds.


I need a cold shower now.
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I AM 100000000000000000% SOLD ON HELM NOW.
 
@ClawClawBite: seriously considering that. ;)

Also, Nash joined Starfleet after the movie-era uniforms, but membership in the RSPS is about more than just the literal color of your shirt.

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Technically at this point all Starfleet officers are redshirts > : V

But more seriously, she probably was back as an Ensign or Lieutenant.
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You can't be a member of the Red Shirt Protective Society unless you meet the following conditions for RSPS affiliation

1) Participate in a certain number of away teams, security details, or other hazardous detached duties, while below the rank of lieutenant commander.
2) NOT be mentioned in dispatches or captain's logs during any of these hazardous detached duties, except in the context of having been somehow injured, mind-controlled, attacked, killed, or in some other way harmed.

(1) is waived for Starfleet enlisted and junior officers killed or seriously injured in the line of duty when the ship's captain or first officer is on the away team.

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EDITED VERSION REFLECTING 2313 RULES REVISION for clarification:

At the discretion of a panel of RSPS members in good standing with at least ten years' seniority, conditions (1) or (2) may be waived for:

a) Starfleet enlisted and junior officers who are killed or suffer a serious permanent injury in the line of duty.
b) Starfleet enlisted and junior officers who suffer an injury in the presence of the captain or the first officer.
c) Starfleet enlisted and junior officers injured as a result of an occasionally amended list of causes, including but not limited to:
c.i) malfunctioning prototype equipment,
c.ii) an incident in which a senior officer is mind-controlled, replaced with an evil opposite, or otherwise subverted,
c.iii) the activities of any type of energy being, cloud-form, metapsychic entity, or other sufficiently exotic form of life.
c.iv) the activities of a boarding party, escaping prisoner, or other dangerous being aboard the ship.


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Nash is almost certainly disqualified because I'm sure she stood out enough for doing cool heroic stuff that she got mentioned for doing heroic cool stuff sometimes. Like Chekov or Sulu. Although she might be admitted if anything sufficiently terrible happened to her when she beamed down to the planet as Ensign ka'Sharren along with the captain, the science officer, and the medical officer, because you just KNOW the ensign's gonna get it.

Incidentally, there's another RSPS legend that will be mentioned to Nash at a later time, but Leslie's going to have to pass that one on later.
 
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Oh absolutely. Honestly, Nash may have already gotten the Matthews-Rayburn* award before during her tenure; Enterprise's low casualty rates are widely appreciated by RSPS members who know it could be so very, very much worse.

But, with apologies to Nash, and without prejudice to her sterling efforts... the December 2309 meeting of the RSPS did give Thuir the somewhat more prestigious Kaplan-Mallory** Captain of the Decade award for his handling of the Ulith III incident back in '01.
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*Named for the first two redshirts to die on TOS, murdered by a giant android on a weird cave planet.

**Named for two redshirts who died especially randomly and horribly in a particular episode.
 
[X][RA] Rear Admiral Nyota Uhura
[X][FLT] Commodore Victoria Eaton
[X][GND] Commodore T'Lorel

I want Thuir for Starfleet Academy. I don't even care what his bonus is.
 
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[x][FLT] Commodore Victoria Eaton
No. of Votes: 24
Ato
aeqnai
AKuz
anon_user
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Cornuthaum
Derek58
Erandil
Gadjo
Gingganz
Iron Wolf
Katsuragi
lbmaian
Leila Hann
Muramasa
Nervos Belli
Night
Night_stalker
Questara
Simon_Jester
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Theunderbolt
tryrar
Winged One
[x][FLT] Commodore Michel Thuir
No. of Votes: 20
UbeOne
Aeondrac
AlphaDelta
Artemis1992
ClawClawBite
drake_azathoth
Finagle007
Gear
Japanime
JesseJ
Mr Tebbs
Muer'ci
NHO
Nix
NullVoid
PauliExklusor
pheonix89
Random Member
Steven Kodaly
Void Stalker
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[x][GND] Commodore T'Lorel
No. of Votes: 41
UbeOne
Aeondrac
aeqnai
AKuz
AlphaDelta
anon_user
Artemis1992
Briefvoice
ClawClawBite
Cornuthaum
Derek58
drake_azathoth
Erandil
Finagle007
Gadjo
Gear
Gingganz
Iron Wolf
Japanime
JesseJ
lbmaian
Leila Hann
Mr Tebbs
Muer'ci
Muramasa
NHO
Night
Night_stalker
Nix
NullVoid
PauliExklusor
pheonix89
Questara
Random Member
Simon_Jester
Steven Kodaly
SynchronizedWritersBlock
Theunderbolt
tryrar
Void Stalker
Winged One
[x][GND] Commodore Nash ka'Sharren
No. of Votes: 2
Ato
Katsuragi
[X][GND] Commodore Rachel Ainsworth
No. of Votes: 1
Nervos Belli
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[x][RA] Rear Admiral Nyota Uhura
No. of Votes: 39
UbeOne
Aeondrac
aeqnai
AKuz
anon_user
Artemis1992
Briefvoice
ClawClawBite
Derek58
drake_azathoth
Finagle007
Gadjo
Gear
Gingganz
Iron Wolf
Japanime
Katsuragi
lbmaian
Leila Hann
Mr Tebbs
Muramasa
Nervos Belli
NHO
Night
Night_stalker
Nix
NullVoid
PauliExklusor
pheonix89
Questara
Random Member
Simon_Jester
Steven Kodaly
SynchronizedWritersBlock
Theunderbolt
tryrar
Void Stalker
Winged One
wootius
[X][RA] Rear Admiral Shey ch'Tharvasse
No. of Votes: 4
Erandil
Cornuthaum
JesseJ
Muer'ci
[x][RA] Rear Admiral Patricia Chen
No. of Votes: 2
Ato
AlphaDelta
Total No. of Voters: 45

Vicky's pulled ahead of Michel a little now
 
[x][RA] Rear Admiral Nyota Uhura
[x][FLT] Commodore Michel Thuir
[x][GND] Commodore T'Lorel
 
The main problem with using Uhura is that it denies the opportunity for a younger character with less accomplishments to make their bones. But alas, it's more important to navigate this crisis successfully than it to give ch'Tharvasse a chance to show how awesome he is.
 
One thing to remember is that if something goes wrong, whoever's in charge may end up eating a spread of anti-reputation torpedos. High reward, high risk.

So ch'Tharvasse might get a chance to show how awesome he is... or he might end up screwing it up somehow due to insufficient aggression or excessive rule-stickling and wind up sinking his career.

It's not doing an officer a favor to give them a position like this if we're not sure they're the right person for the job at the moment we assign it to them. That's almost the only reason I didn't vote Nash for ground forces- I think she'd perform spectacularly, but there's a very real danger of her weaknesses coming back to bite her. And if they do it could destroy her otherwise promising prospects of serving for 20-30 years as a very talented flag officer.

Uhura, potentially, has similar weaknesses to Nash... but if this is her last assignment because of something going wrong, we (probably) haven't lost as much.

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Hm.

With Uhura being assigned to do this, there's an opening in Starfleet Tactical. We're going to have to bump someone to serve as Sulu's next chief of staff (for that matter, we're going to have to replace Sulu himself soon if he's our next admiral). That will in turn open up a commodore slot (or two) in Tactical, which we can give to Nash!

Seriously, I think a year or two in Tactical would be good for her. It's an area where she's an obvious, acknowledged expert, one of the most accomplished single-ship duelists in the galaxy even. So she's not being flung out into the cold the way she'd be in, oh, Shipyard Operations. But at the same time, it also forces her to learn to cope with bureaucracy, albeit under some of the most favorable possible conditions.

Plus we may get Kuznetsova/ka'Sharren crossovers again! :)

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Given that she's fought Cardassian battlecruisers like 27 times courtesy of time-loop save scumming, I wonder if we get a bonus to research on anti-Cardassian tactics from her. :V
 
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[x][RA] Rear Admiral Nyota Uhura
[x][FLT] Commodore Victoria Eaton
[x][GND] Commodore T'Lorel
 
[X][RA] Rear Admiral Nyota Uhura
[X][FLT] Commodore Victoria Eaton
[X][GND] Commodore T'Lorel
 
Briefvoice said:
The main problem with using Uhura is that it denies the opportunity for a younger character with less accomplishments to make their bones. But alas, it's more important to navigate this crisis successfully than it to give ch'Tharvasse a chance to show how awesome he is.
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To be fair Uhura was probably one of the least utilized of the original bridge cast, so I think it's fair she gets to be put front and center later in her career.

(Does Chekov have it worse? I'm not sure. Certainly Scotty and Sulu get some big moments.)

I mean Sulu's stealing the show but like, how could he not.

EDIT: Note I'm working on the context of the TOS Cast movies, I haven't seen a large amount of the show.
 
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