Friday DE

[angry_friendship_wolf]

So, every ship in Star Trek has a ten person senior crew, each one fulfilling a different role. Those are:

Captain: Commanding officer
Executive Officer: Second in command and principle advisor to the Captain.
Science Officer: Coordinates scientific analysis, explains new phenomenon.
Tactical Officer: Handles external threats.
Communications Officer: Handles ship communications and alien linguistic contact.
Operations Management Officer: Mans the Ops station. Liaison between science, engineering, comms, and security.
Chief Engineer: Watches the Warp Core and resident miracle worker.
Head of Security: Handles internal threats.
Chief Medical Officer: Maintains health of crew.
Helm: Pilots vessel.

If your character were a Star Trek character, which position would they hold?

Comments

[have_no_mercy]

As much as Tess wants to be Science Officer, she’s the Executive Officer most of the time.

Kylo is the Captain.

Creed would be Head of Security if he played this game.

Wanda is a tough one, but I’m leaning toward Tactical Officer.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato is the Executive Officer to Taichi's Captain, and then there's Sora as both Comms and Ops, Koushiro as Science, Mimi on Helm, Jyou as Medical Officer, and then Takeru and Hikari as lower ranked officers in Medical and Comms respectively.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka is the captain. She is the most level-headed yet dynamic.

Sabine is Tactical Officer, like she'd be anything else.

Jessica...I'm going with the Head of Security. Seems the best fit.

Viv is a hard choice. I can see her at Comms or as Chief Engineer. I think I will go with Comms as that fits her role in Champians best.

Tybalt is the Executive Officer. It was tempting to have him be captain but he is king more out of duty than desire in canon.

Wen Qing is Chief Medical Officer and follows the book of McCoy

Ben Hargreeves is Operations Management Officer.

Alustin could be Science Officer or Communications. His approach to magic tends towards more scientific or creative than book bound and he knows a lot of languages. If he takes Comms that would free up Viv to be Chief Engineer.

So I guess I'm flying without a Science Officer or a Helm.

[alongfallfromgrace]

Wei Wuxian: Chief Engineer (though everyone thought he was going to be Executive Officer on the Lotus Pier, oops). Last seen sheepishly trying to explain why Ensign Decker was helping to fix some engine component when Ensign Decker died last year. Look, it worked, okay? And he really wanted to. What, was he supposed to say no?

Jonathan Sims: Science Officer. No one knows why, including him - look, he trained to work in a lab, on a stationary base. He has no idea why he's here, you have no idea why he's here, the captain might know but good luck asking him, and he's pretty sure the Head of Security wants to throw him out an airlock. So. There's that.

Klaus: Chief Medical Officer. He's good with medicines. >.> And needles. >.>
He may have also had something to do with the whole Ensign Decker thing. >.>

Cecil: Chief Communications Officer. Biggest difficulty is staying on task, he's told everyone in the quadrant about his new boyfriend. He's also been narrating the Ensign Decker situation, he thinks it's hilarious, and shows good civic pride on Decker's part.

[star_bespangled]

Gaster is Chief Engineer, since that was basically his job pre-accident.

Urania is Science Officer, natch.

Phoenix...nothing here particularly fits him, but considering that he ends up shepherding a bunch of kids at any given time in the series, I'll say he's a Captain.

Lup is part of a spaceship crew already, but she deals with magic stuff, which isn't in Star Trek (not really, anyway), so I'll say Operations Management Officer, since it's the closest thing.

Bonus All-Skate: Snufkin is one of the aliens they find.

[chanter1944]

Sariel: Er-- *giggling, a touch shyly*

XD I had to.

[canttrickmeanymore]

Peter: Science Officer or Chief Engineer - he builds things and likes figuring stuff out

Harry: Tactical Officer - let him blow stuff up!

[takethatnature]

Thurlow has significantly more leadership experience than any of the others, including captaining a ship on the Unterzee once in a while, so they strike me as the best choice for captain.

Wilson is the Science Officer, mainly because Thurlow can't be in two places at once. He's not that great at the 'explaining new phenomena' part but if you can get him to wait until he actually has a decent amount of data instead of making stuff up based on one initial observation and wishful thinking he does an alright job. (Second choice: Chief Medical Officer, based mainly on his role in the Forge where his special talent turns out to be stuffing people's souls back into their bodies and thus he often gets to be the healer. But he really wants to be the Science Officer.)

Everybody in the room looks at Bastion when the Head of Security position comes up and Bastion hands it off to Aradia and goes off to sign up for Chief Engineer. (They might also be decent at Chief Medical Officer due to knowing a fair amount about human anatomy for the same reason the Terminator does, but it wouldn't be their first thought.)

Cirava is the Communications Officer by virtue of being good at handling social media and chill about befriending aliens.

Wormwood is a little harder to place because they don't excel at any of the more specialised jobs, and their poor fluency in speaking English (with not much to fall back on so the universal translator wouldn't really help) would make Executive Officer or Ops difficult. I'm tempted to put them on Tactical Officer just for the heck of it, but they honestly seem more like they'd be some kind of botanical specialist on a larger ship with more room for nonessential niche jobs like that.

I notice that I don't have anyone who can fly the ship, so I'm bringing in the Impostor from my All-Skate roster, who has at least been up in a spaceship before, even though I'm not sure if the impossibility of doing piloting-related tasks as them in-game is because they can't or because they don't want to. I'm sure this will go well and not at all end with any of the other crewmates getting murdered and/or eaten. Yochelm can come too, he'd make a decent Executive Officer and keep the crew in stylish hats at all times.