Day 11 & 12 - Crew Position You Would Want / Not Want

[rivendellrose]

30 Days of Star Trek Day 11 - Crew Position You Would Want

If we go totally realistic and based on my current job, I'd love to be in communications/administration, handling paperwork and other bureaucratic minutiae, preferably aboard a science vessel.

If we go for "slightly dreamy but relatively reasonable based on my academic history and interests," I'd love to be a xeno-anthropologist. Not a first contact specialist like Burnham, because I can't handle that kind of stress, but someone who works on background and studies cultures that have already been contacted. I'd need some much better linguistics skills than I currently have, but that seems totally within reach assuming I'd started this path back when I started college in the real world.

Day 12 - Day 11 - Crew Position You Would Not Want

Command, security, or engineering. I could easily manage as low-level science or medical personnel (again, probably administrative), but I don't want anything to do with the decision-making part of running the ship, the keeping-it-safe-from-intruders, or the keeping-it-running parts.


Day 1 - Favorite Episode of TOS
Day 2 - Favorite Federation Race
Day 3 - Favorite Ship
Day 4 - Favorite Captain
Day 5 - Saddest Event
Day 6 - Happiest Event
Day 7 - Favorite TNG Episode
Day 8 - Favorite Federation Enemy
Day 9 - Favorite Character
Day 10 - Most Shocking Moment
Day 13 - Favorite DS9 Episode
Day 14 - Favorite Time Travel Episode
Day 15 - Favorite First Officer
Day 16 - Favorite Voyager Episode
Day 17 - Favorite Trek Novel
Day 18 - Favorite Non-Aligned Race
Day 19 - Favorite Enterprise Episode
Day 20 - Character You're Most Like
Day 21 - Least Favorite Character
Day 22 - Favorite Trek Film
Day 23 - Best Trek Tech
Day 24 - Best Overall Space Vessel
Day 25 - Favorite Discovery Episode
Day 26 - Planet You Would Most Like To Visit
Day 27 - Character You Would Date
Day 28 - Name Your Own Starship
Day 29 - Favorite Trek Quote
Day 30 - Favorite Trek Series

Comments

[nenya_kanadka]

Yup, it's fun to write stories about starship captains, but having that much life-or-death responsibility would do me in.

I like to imagine that I'd be a Jadzia-style scientist, but again probably all the lethal anomalies of the week would be too intense.

Realistically I'd probably be a civilian who worked in proximity to Starfleet (like Kasidy Yates or Neelix) but I want that fancy uniform, dammit. 😆

[rivendellrose]

Yuuuuup. For all that many of my favorite characters are female leaders, and I adore writing about them, I am soooooooo not a leader type myself. I like to be the second-in-command type person, supporting the leader and making things happen. But, y'know, without the responsibility that that kind of position means in terms of the Starfleet chain of command.

Starfleet scientists do seem to be high on the lethal anomalies and low on the laboratory research, don't they? Funny, that. XD

Kasidy is such an interesting character in terms of her job (as well as everything else), isn't she? We so rarely get civilians in general on Star Trek, but particularly civilians running ships and appearing / disappearing frequently on jobs.