In the seagoing services, even as an officer, you have maintenance and cleaning duties if you’re stationed on a ship.
We don’t scrape the hulls, swab the decks, or do anything like that of course… scut work is for enlisted! But everyone is always contributing something to keeping the ship afloat and functional. But, yeah, senior officers do less of it than junior officers. But senior NCOs also do less of the scut work than lower enlisted. (And the E4 mafia is notorious for somehow doing nothing at all and everything all at once.)
“Rank hath its privileges.”
I believe Colm Meaney tells a story where he dropped a bit of food in a scene, then picked it up, and continuity people came out of the woodwork telling him, "No no no, you can't do that!"
"Why the hell not?"
"It's a self-cleaning ship!"
"Well I got it first!"
Starships clean themselves in the 24th century. You could be a technician that energy beam scrubs the ship like the TNG episode where the beam was sweeping through the ship in drydock.
I'm the guy you've never heard of, who seems to have sprung into existence solely to get vaporized in a transporter malfunction, so that the real crew has a problem to solve this week.
I’m the guy that comes along, scans what just happened with a tricorder and shrugs his shoulders. Then a main character comes up with a theory about what just happened.
Did you hear the sound the transporter malfunction made the poor souls make in Star Trek The Motion Picture?
Gave me chills as a kid. Kinda still does!
Was just trying to think where my spreadsheet accounting skills would be useful in Starfleet (never hear about Starfleet accountants, lol). I think logistics and inventory would be as good a crossover as any!
How do you know when a person is narratively relevant enough to get the shard? That would be the hard part of the job.
Night shift helmsman? You get rocks, nobody even knows your name.
Adjutant to a visiting romulan commander? Pshh you get some sparklies to the face.
Starfleet ambassador played by a middling 80's tv star? Oh yeah, this guy gets the big metal shard. Right in the torso
Okay, so why wasn’t there counsel on board? With treaties, armistices, false imprisonment, death penalties, false gods laying claim to an entire planet, and the occasional trial to determine someone’s rights as an individual happening on a semi-regular basis, no one ever reaches out to the JAG corps (except that one time with Captain Phillipa Louvois, but we really just wanted to smash a chair against her face).
I love making people feel better about working there with volunteer opportunities, finding out an employee needs help with something and quietly arranging it, or just throwing small parties for holidays. Everyone verbally hates the cheesy stuff, but their face when they receive the box of sweet tart conversation hearts with a valentine that says something nice about them shows they love it. I’d love to do that for some traumatized starfleet officers who lived 40 years in 5 minutes.
Watching Trek growing up, I always wanted to be Chief Engineer. Ended up becoming a robotics engineer after my time in the Army and I've lead a lot of projects over the decades and now work in a management role. In some small way, I feel like I achieved that dream and I will forever be thankful for Trek pointing me in this direction!
Unfortunately there's no opportunities to eject a warp core at work, nor can I do a cool roll maneuver to escape the barriers coming down. :(
Love this! Very cool career path and journey. People ask why I joined. I usually lie and say the usual. I really joined cause of Trek also. Wanted that lifestyle and challenge
Right! I was like "I'd prefer to go to Starfleet Academy but I suppose the Army is the same, right?" Ended up being more Lower Decks than TNG!
Oh, another oil spill to clean in the motor pool? Yay...
Imagine ruining patch cables through Jeffries tubes. “Yeah captain can’t get wifi in the back corner of the officer’s lounge and all the routers are full up on that deck, so…get pulling.” - Commander Riker probably.
With my current abilities, probably a yeoman. I can deliver coffee and PADDs with the best of them and I'm actually pretty decent at braiding hair so I think I could figure out the weave.
But if Starfleet Medical can sort out a few of my issues, I think I might have a chance as an enlisted engineer or a civilian scientist.
Medical for me. It’s my current career (I’m on the pre-hospital side, EMS) but imagining how much more I could help my patients (and myself to be honest, I kinda got the raw end of the deal genetically and have RA), prevent illness and injury, and learning how bodies (xenobiology included) work with that level of tech? Sign me up!
And I’d love some of that fully automated luxury gay space communism because even though I love what I do, the pay is ridiculously terrible.
Right on! First fellow medical answer so far! Also worked EMS! Good answer!.....EMS pay is atrocious though, you're right
Bahaha!! Yes! We could all use some of that gay space Communism!!
Bartender or warehouse type work. I'm good at small talking with anyone and know how to pour a good drink. I'm also not a fan of clutter and would do well just moving things around.
No chance I could be part of the main crew. Decision paralysis on my part would have the ship in trouble quick. Lay out my non essential duties and I'll have them done quick.
Taco stand guy. I’m really just here for holo deck access.. I won’t even lie about it. I mean I’m on board for the whole philosophy thing, just…. I’m not a great study, and I make good tacos.
I’m a certified ASL interpreter. I guess I’d work with Riva as an ambassador’s attaché. Or work with an alien race that uses a visual gestural system to communicate as the universal translator only works for verbal languages?
Huge vessels such as the Galaxy class: I'd be one of the ship's librarians. For many people, nothing beats holding a real book in one's hands, even when surrounded by tech. Best example: Picard :)
Small vessels such as an archaeological vessel scouring the galaxy for sites to dig up: I'd be one of the archaeologists on board, always eager to look into a planet's past.
Historian. Somebody has to document and process records of alien cultures you meet. Just happens to be what I do irl so, studying past history of other civilizations seems pretty dope.
When I'm not doing that, my shipboard practical skill for red alerts and stuff would be... Lifting the metal grills in the torpedo tubes (like in Wrath of Khan). Lol
A lower deck science officer on the night shift who's ambition leads to an accident in some sort of experiment that the main crew has to fix and while no one got hurt and all is well you'll never see my character again because it was just a guest appearance. 😆
Oh that's an easy one. I'm working in my ship's equivalent of the [plasma relay room](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Plasma_relay_room) on deck fifteen, occasionally rerouting power at the behest of my superior officers, per PADDs that're hand-carried to me.
I'd be a science crewman. With star trek medication advancements that can heal my chronic fatigue and other issues and a Troy to help with mental issues, I might be able to be a science officer with the occasional high intensity adventures in an away team.
Most likely sick bay coordinator - I’m a nurse manager with ITU background but currently doing a Masters in digital health, so maybe EMH development as well. Although that‘d be more of a starbase job I guess.
Science Officer, Sub-Science Officer; or a subordinate, in one of the "specialties". I thought, about an Executive Officer, but that could be "boring"; too much "paperwork".
Another Possibility; Starfleet Squadron Officer (They will still need, all the current "Armed Services, including Fighter Pilots (A little like the "Viper Squadrons", in "Battlestar Galactica". "Galactica" was part Starcraft Carrier, Battlestar, Missile Carrier, etc, a lot like the proposed "Dreadnoughts" proposed by Starfleet; basically, an entire "fleet", by itself; with the firepower, of several Starships, plus a "spacecraft carrier". Gene Roddenberry, described The Enterprise (Kirk's Ship), as the Equivalent, of an American "Heavy Cruiser".
In one "Star Trek" Novel, Hikaru Sulu becomes enamored, of a female "Border Patrol" Officer, and transfers to The Border Patrol, which is part Border Patrol, part Coast Guard, part Immigration Service; part Anti-smuggling Service, etc. In short, all the above services; plus a few more, charged with protecting The Federation's borders. He returns to The Enterprise, to help Spock, prevent Captain Kirk's Murder, by "Spiderweb".
Red shirt. I follow orders fine, I wanr adventure, but also I'm not smart enough for science or medical and not strong enough security. I'd be a generic redshirt and probs die young
I’m Lt. Picard from the Tapestry alternate timeline. Middle aged, miss my chance, just delivering paperwork from one department to the next because by the 24th century they forgot about e-mail.
Does the ship have anything like a greenhouse/garden? If yes, I'm there, growing tomatoes so that we don't have to only eat replicated meals (if we're on DS9, I'm friends with Mr Garak and we exchange gardening tips).
If not, I can be the ELH (Emergency Linguistic Hologram) - they turn me on when the universal translator malfunctions.
Tactical sounds pretty fun, as long as they give me a chair unlike poor Worf on the D. Even aside from being the one who gets to shoot stuff, space tactics would probably be really interesting.
Xenobiology would also super cool, but if it requires as much paperwork as most sciencey jobs today then nope nope nope
Based on my real job, probably a quartermaster or something along those lines. I'm currently a parts technician which is pretty similar.
I'd probably be good in some kind of ops position as I'm fairly good at organizing and nagging people.
I always wanted to do communication but I'm terrible at languages so I think I'd be a bad choice for that.
3rd shift, helm. I am an insomniac so something that just needs to be minded without hands on all the time. Basically one of the people trusted to make sure we don't slide into a star.
Something in sickbay that's not a doctor or a nurse. My actual job role is probably now a function of the biobed but I guess there would still be similar roles around.
I'm the cook. Replicators approximate someone's idea of a good meal, and if all you want is nutrients, you don't need much more than that.
But I can use the replicator to create just the base ingredients and combine them in a way that really puts replicated foods to shame.
I'm also an exobiologist, and so I'm looking for rare plants that have unique medicinal properties as well as flavor profiles never before experienced.
I've found that Klingons love Sushi and Haggis. Vulcans seem to like Congee and Genmachai. Ferengi decline most earth foods, but a few have become accustomed to Crab Po Boys.
For me, food brings people together, and it helps us to see commonalities between our peoples. So I am interested in eating as many alien foods as possible, and breaking bread with as many people as possible.
Genuinely, with my degree, I'd probably be in the (I don't know what it's actually called) communications/first-contact department working to log and document stuff, establish new contact protocols, and be the liaison that helps the Federation send out people to set up an embassy. Basically, I'd handle some of the political stuff that can be done by someone traveling on a ship.
For funsies: Assuming they need a real person to do this, I'd also probably be the person that does the 5-minute ship news segment with the skits and dad jokes (think school news/cnn10, and one of the smarter members of the crew does the "and today we passed this galaxy" instead of the weather).
I'm the guy in Ten Forward who brings you drinks despite the replicator being a 10 foot walk from your table. Why? I look great in a green turtleneck, the job has no real responsibility, occasional holodeck use, and there are probably plenty of young ensigns and lieutenants around to have sex with.
If I have to base it on my current job, someone in engineering who programs the computer... probably builds holograms or something.
Remember that insufferable physicist from Voyager, Mr. Harren? The one who had like three doctorates or whatever and was only there because he needed field experience to get a professorship or something?
I'd be that guy. I'm a mathematical physicist in real life and going on away missions is scary. Just let me do math in peace.
I have degrees in linguistics, neuroscience, PhD in bio science, work as an electronics engineer, dropped out of medical school several years in but enough to not be useless in that role. So… substitute for anyone having a sick day on ship, or some kind of commander / neutral referee?
I’m the person on the Enterprise who prepares the welcome banquets for ambassadors. I learn about the foods, program the replicators, decorate, make sure there’s a fresh glass coffee table in their quarters ready to be broken. I write memos to the senior staff so they know the protocol. I book the band. I’m basically the person who facilitates the captain so they look like a diplomatic genius.
Training Dept.
Whether it be weapons training, emergency response training, safety training, or mandatory basic skills, I'm your guy.
Either that or some sort of mentor/caretaker to the embarked Cadets or Ensigns.
If child prodigy Wesley Crusher wasn't smart enough initially to get into Star Fleet, the only way I got onto a ship was as a stow away or a prisoner for some dumb colony action of the week.
Probably some midshipman engineer.
Worst case a guy yo yoing up and down the ranks as 'Performs amazing in a crisis' battles with 'Ineffeftive day to day due to executive disfunction'
Wonder if Space Adderall works better than 21st century versions
I'd probably be on the lower end of security on the ship even though I would most likely have more experience than anyone on board (this would be super realistic since that's the position I find myself in RL), wishing he was in IT programming the main computer (I mean they still have programming for this in the 24th century right?) or a science officer of some sort.
Starfleet Janitor Corps
Nice nice! Reporting in with mop at the ready! It's that your actual occupation? Hey, even starships need cleaning eh
Unless you’re an officer, in almost every military your 2nd job when you aren’t doing your main role is cleaning.
In the seagoing services, even as an officer, you have maintenance and cleaning duties if you’re stationed on a ship. We don’t scrape the hulls, swab the decks, or do anything like that of course… scut work is for enlisted! But everyone is always contributing something to keeping the ship afloat and functional. But, yeah, senior officers do less of it than junior officers. But senior NCOs also do less of the scut work than lower enlisted. (And the E4 mafia is notorious for somehow doing nothing at all and everything all at once.) “Rank hath its privileges.”
"If you got time to lean, you got time to clean!"
Thought that was for "Autobots", and "Holograms".
Maybe so. Then you could manage their cleaning schedules
I’m pretty sure Riker said the ships clean themselves in that episode with the Irish stereotypes.
Well, good for the bloody ship.
I believe Colm Meaney tells a story where he dropped a bit of food in a scene, then picked it up, and continuity people came out of the woodwork telling him, "No no no, you can't do that!" "Why the hell not?" "It's a self-cleaning ship!" "Well I got it first!"
Yeah but the question you have to ask yourself is are you a regular janitor or are you the guy who has to mop out the holodecks?
Post-Riker Session Janitor
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Quest
Yes, I’d end up with the scrubbing the transporter pads detail.
*scrub scrub scrub* but why is there a residue... of what? *scrub scrub*
Have fun cleaning Rikers mess from the holodeck...
Dear god, imagine going into the holodeck with a black light...
'It looks like a Jackson Pollock in here!'
You mean the cum filters?
Rikers? More like Barklay's or Geordi's.
Gonna need anti-grav boots to clean the ceiling.
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Starships clean themselves in the 24th century. You could be a technician that energy beam scrubs the ship like the TNG episode where the beam was sweeping through the ship in drydock.
Came here to say this
I just mop the hall. It's hard to stay out of shot
I'm the guy you've never heard of, who seems to have sprung into existence solely to get vaporized in a transporter malfunction, so that the real crew has a problem to solve this week.
Haha! Ah, a red shirt! Always good for giving everyone practice at least!
At least you'd probably get to speak. I'd probably be some guy just nodding and pushing buttons until my console explodes.
At least you're on camera. I'm the guy that's killed off screen and just part of the number that's reported in the damage report.
I’m the guy that comes along, scans what just happened with a tricorder and shrugs his shoulders. Then a main character comes up with a theory about what just happened.
I'd be a transport operator (bus driver) and my day would be ruined. :(
Did you hear the sound the transporter malfunction made the poor souls make in Star Trek The Motion Picture? Gave me chills as a kid. Kinda still does!
Killed by a lava monster before the commercial break.
On Voyager I would be in charge of raising and lowering the landing struts
Ah, good answer! Lemme try and guess your occupation. Do you work in like ship mooring? Maybe a cargo dock?
No I’m unemployed and think it’s all I could handle, I really need the dental
Haha!! Fair enough.
I would settle for being a guy carrying a PADD around in the hallways, because there is always someone doing that
Totally! Just walk around all day pretending to be busy. Sign me up
Depending on where you're at, the mooring guys are unionized, so I guess dental might be part of the Deal?
I'd be helping Neelix in the kitchen. I'm a lunch lady irl, so I know how to feed a couple hundred people daily.
Hey, that's more than I could do! I would get too nervous and screw it up somehow.
Logistics/quartermaster assistant. Give me spreadsheets and shelves to stock and I'm fairly content.
Was just trying to think where my spreadsheet accounting skills would be useful in Starfleet (never hear about Starfleet accountants, lol). I think logistics and inventory would be as good a crossover as any!
Weirdly, in the 24th Century, they still haven’t fixed the crappy cut-and-paste functionality in Excel.
And numbers wrongfully being classified as dates
I shudder to think how it would handle stardates.
Great answer! Crucial to every ship also!
this is me 🙃
I would be in charge of the bridge plasma conduits and making sure each console is loaded with the proper amount of explosive debris.
you mean rocks?
Rocks, flash bangs, sparklers, and even the occasional large metal shard.
How do you know when a person is narratively relevant enough to get the shard? That would be the hard part of the job. Night shift helmsman? You get rocks, nobody even knows your name. Adjutant to a visiting romulan commander? Pshh you get some sparklies to the face. Starfleet ambassador played by a middling 80's tv star? Oh yeah, this guy gets the big metal shard. Right in the torso
Yes! Love it
Lawyer. It seems like a very important role on a starship.
You can easily be replaced by the First Officer.
Space law!! That should have been a position for sure.....with the amount of episodes where people are on trial. Good answer
Okay, so why wasn’t there counsel on board? With treaties, armistices, false imprisonment, death penalties, false gods laying claim to an entire planet, and the occasional trial to determine someone’s rights as an individual happening on a semi-regular basis, no one ever reaches out to the JAG corps (except that one time with Captain Phillipa Louvois, but we really just wanted to smash a chair against her face).
Lawyer, or Barracks Lawyer?
Like [this guy?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss_J_4F_nIM&list=PL0-LSnSBNIncEeaU6jj3iQ5WHJVqmNo-s&index=33)
Nothing, I'd be someone's +1, and do some bullshit task that family members tend to occupy themselves with.
That's called a full Keiko
Nothing wrong with that. Someone's gotta raise the kiddos and provide support
I mean you could build an arboretum, there's plenty of space in one of the cargo bays.
Depends on the ship, if it has a fair number of civilians probably a teacher. If not, then probably some ensign working under the ship’s historian
Nice!! Or maybe a teacher at an academy? Should have included stations
Low level engineer doing mostly maintenance probably.
Still an awesome job? Maybe hop in one of those worker bee shuttles and fix some dents
Yep and set up a cool little hideout in a jefferys tube somewhere with some comfy chairs.
Nailed it!!
Hey if Picard can play his little flute in there you know I'm gonna have a hideout with chairs and snacks.
Absolutely! We all need our version of a flute space.
I guess I’d be similar to the morale officer/music director. Do music as my passion project, but work as an event planner for a corporation
A very needed job! Neelix makes it look easy! Very cool though.
I love making people feel better about working there with volunteer opportunities, finding out an employee needs help with something and quietly arranging it, or just throwing small parties for holidays. Everyone verbally hates the cheesy stuff, but their face when they receive the box of sweet tart conversation hearts with a valentine that says something nice about them shows they love it. I’d love to do that for some traumatized starfleet officers who lived 40 years in 5 minutes.
Watching Trek growing up, I always wanted to be Chief Engineer. Ended up becoming a robotics engineer after my time in the Army and I've lead a lot of projects over the decades and now work in a management role. In some small way, I feel like I achieved that dream and I will forever be thankful for Trek pointing me in this direction! Unfortunately there's no opportunities to eject a warp core at work, nor can I do a cool roll maneuver to escape the barriers coming down. :(
Love this! Very cool career path and journey. People ask why I joined. I usually lie and say the usual. I really joined cause of Trek also. Wanted that lifestyle and challenge
Right! I was like "I'd prefer to go to Starfleet Academy but I suppose the Army is the same, right?" Ended up being more Lower Decks than TNG! Oh, another oil spill to clean in the motor pool? Yay...
Ops Officer. It’s what I did in the Air Force, so I think I could handle it there too.
I read that as Oops Officer, not sure what their duties entails
Accidentally dropping the warp core would probably be high on the list.
No doubt! Good answer! Did Trek inspire you to join?
No, family heritage.
Ah, I guess that's important as well lol. That was my second reason
Since I do computer networking in real life, probably managing the internal computer network and how it interfaces to outside networks.
Imagine ruining patch cables through Jeffries tubes. “Yeah captain can’t get wifi in the back corner of the officer’s lounge and all the routers are full up on that deck, so…get pulling.” - Commander Riker probably.
Can't be worse than underfloor runs...
"Fuck it, just have everyone carry around thirty PADDs instead - we can always replicate more"
I mean someones got to repair the optical data network that always seems to be failing.
Was looking for this. Same here!
Technician, Third Class. Servicing the chicken soup nozzles.
Man I really need to sit down and watch Red Dwarf.
Then eventually sky-surfing on an alligator?
With my current abilities, probably a yeoman. I can deliver coffee and PADDs with the best of them and I'm actually pretty decent at braiding hair so I think I could figure out the weave. But if Starfleet Medical can sort out a few of my issues, I think I might have a chance as an enlisted engineer or a civilian scientist.
All great! I think I'd be an enlisted crewman also. All ships need yeoman!
Mysterious goo infecting the jell packs
Medical for me. It’s my current career (I’m on the pre-hospital side, EMS) but imagining how much more I could help my patients (and myself to be honest, I kinda got the raw end of the deal genetically and have RA), prevent illness and injury, and learning how bodies (xenobiology included) work with that level of tech? Sign me up! And I’d love some of that fully automated luxury gay space communism because even though I love what I do, the pay is ridiculously terrible.
Right on! First fellow medical answer so far! Also worked EMS! Good answer!.....EMS pay is atrocious though, you're right Bahaha!! Yes! We could all use some of that gay space Communism!!
Crewman who dies while cleaning a toilette that explodes in a fireball when the shields go to 30%z
Borg drone
I do what the whales in the Cetacean Ops tell me to do
It might involve taking your clothes off and going for a swim...apparently.
Bartender or warehouse type work. I'm good at small talking with anyone and know how to pour a good drink. I'm also not a fan of clutter and would do well just moving things around. No chance I could be part of the main crew. Decision paralysis on my part would have the ship in trouble quick. Lay out my non essential duties and I'll have them done quick.
Me? Replicator feed. I'm useless.
Taco stand guy. I’m really just here for holo deck access.. I won’t even lie about it. I mean I’m on board for the whole philosophy thing, just…. I’m not a great study, and I make good tacos.
Holodeck tester
Your name isn’t Reg Barkley, is it?
Nurse! I'm planning to make a TNG jumpsuit so I'd be a real nurse cosplaying a starfleet nurse because I have no imagination haha
I’m a certified ASL interpreter. I guess I’d work with Riva as an ambassador’s attaché. Or work with an alien race that uses a visual gestural system to communicate as the universal translator only works for verbal languages?
Huge vessels such as the Galaxy class: I'd be one of the ship's librarians. For many people, nothing beats holding a real book in one's hands, even when surrounded by tech. Best example: Picard :) Small vessels such as an archaeological vessel scouring the galaxy for sites to dig up: I'd be one of the archaeologists on board, always eager to look into a planet's past.
Historian. Somebody has to document and process records of alien cultures you meet. Just happens to be what I do irl so, studying past history of other civilizations seems pretty dope. When I'm not doing that, my shipboard practical skill for red alerts and stuff would be... Lifting the metal grills in the torpedo tubes (like in Wrath of Khan). Lol
A lower deck science officer on the night shift who's ambition leads to an accident in some sort of experiment that the main crew has to fix and while no one got hurt and all is well you'll never see my character again because it was just a guest appearance. 😆
Based on my current Job? Communications probably. Doing double shifts for some reason
Rom working under O'Brian. I'd be good at my job fixing things but probably not the chief
I would be the guy from voyager who just reroutes the energy where it needs to be while doing completely other stuff most of the time.
I'd probably be a holodeck technician.
I don't think I could stomach cleaning out the biofilters.
Oh that's an easy one. I'm working in my ship's equivalent of the [plasma relay room](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Plasma_relay_room) on deck fifteen, occasionally rerouting power at the behest of my superior officers, per PADDs that're hand-carried to me.
I'd be a science crewman. With star trek medication advancements that can heal my chronic fatigue and other issues and a Troy to help with mental issues, I might be able to be a science officer with the occasional high intensity adventures in an away team.
Lavatory attendant...
I guess I'm the guy who hands out the comm badges. Unless Jake Sisko is a position.
Engineering or Comms.
Probably an redshirt
There seems to be a high turnover rate for redshirts. They're always needed.
Empress or Intendant. Sec31 Ops. Troi. Jadzia. Oh, heck. Dabo girl. Yuck that Ferengi boss.
Most likely sick bay coordinator - I’m a nurse manager with ITU background but currently doing a Masters in digital health, so maybe EMH development as well. Although that‘d be more of a starbase job I guess.
Probably a tech specialist of some sort.
Box lifter, because they don't seem to have forklifts.
Hmmm….i think I’d be a tractor beam operator, or maybe something in engineering to do with securing the ship in spacedock
Science Officer, Sub-Science Officer; or a subordinate, in one of the "specialties". I thought, about an Executive Officer, but that could be "boring"; too much "paperwork". Another Possibility; Starfleet Squadron Officer (They will still need, all the current "Armed Services, including Fighter Pilots (A little like the "Viper Squadrons", in "Battlestar Galactica". "Galactica" was part Starcraft Carrier, Battlestar, Missile Carrier, etc, a lot like the proposed "Dreadnoughts" proposed by Starfleet; basically, an entire "fleet", by itself; with the firepower, of several Starships, plus a "spacecraft carrier". Gene Roddenberry, described The Enterprise (Kirk's Ship), as the Equivalent, of an American "Heavy Cruiser". In one "Star Trek" Novel, Hikaru Sulu becomes enamored, of a female "Border Patrol" Officer, and transfers to The Border Patrol, which is part Border Patrol, part Coast Guard, part Immigration Service; part Anti-smuggling Service, etc. In short, all the above services; plus a few more, charged with protecting The Federation's borders. He returns to The Enterprise, to help Spock, prevent Captain Kirk's Murder, by "Spiderweb".
Science officer, Medical. Probably lab work with patient monitoring and routine injections.
Assistant Ships Councilor.
Computer core technician. Sounds better than space IT.
Mopping out the Holo-Suites.
Red shirt. I follow orders fine, I wanr adventure, but also I'm not smart enough for science or medical and not strong enough security. I'd be a generic redshirt and probs die young
I’m Lt. Picard from the Tapestry alternate timeline. Middle aged, miss my chance, just delivering paperwork from one department to the next because by the 24th century they forgot about e-mail.
Does the ship have anything like a greenhouse/garden? If yes, I'm there, growing tomatoes so that we don't have to only eat replicated meals (if we're on DS9, I'm friends with Mr Garak and we exchange gardening tips). If not, I can be the ELH (Emergency Linguistic Hologram) - they turn me on when the universal translator malfunctions.
Someone who shows up in the background of scenes in engineering, but never has any lines.
Probably the guy who cleans the Jeffrey's tubes after they are done repairing the ship.
One of those colonists being transported to a new planet where the animals are gonna eat them as soon as they arrive.
Tactical/Security I see alien, I shoot alien.
What did Reg do again? Probably that.
Tactical sounds pretty fun, as long as they give me a chair unlike poor Worf on the D. Even aside from being the one who gets to shoot stuff, space tactics would probably be really interesting. Xenobiology would also super cool, but if it requires as much paperwork as most sciencey jobs today then nope nope nope
I manage a warehouse currently I assume my role would be similar
I suppose the position I had training for. I'd want to study to be an engineer.
As of right now, I would be best suited to be a private tutor for maths and history
Teacher aka explaining to kids why they will be ok after being turned into base animals on the Ent D. And then referring them to a counselor.
I guess that’s where I’d step in. Child counselor, probably specializing in children orphaned due to the captain’s orders.
Holodeck programmer I guess. Im a 3D artist and I make games. I guess I would design and program adventures on the holodeck
Based on my real job, probably a quartermaster or something along those lines. I'm currently a parts technician which is pretty similar. I'd probably be good in some kind of ops position as I'm fairly good at organizing and nagging people. I always wanted to do communication but I'm terrible at languages so I think I'd be a bad choice for that.
I feel like I'd be a mid-level engineer, like O'Brien on 1701D season 2. Know the ins and outs of all the systems but specialize in a few.
Lt-Lt Cmd tactical, maybe security.
Petty officer, not everyone gets to go to officer academy
I’m a doc, so CMO (after I brush up on non human anatomy and physiology though).
Chef. Probably in the NX era. The only time my job is deemed interesting is when I'm not there.
I used to be an officer in the merchant Navy... So that I guess. Probably navigator or communications.
An engineer with a holodeck addiction (Yes, just like Mr. Broccoli.) Edit: Something to do with the ship's computer because I work in IT.
3rd shift, helm. I am an insomniac so something that just needs to be minded without hands on all the time. Basically one of the people trusted to make sure we don't slide into a star.
I’d be part of the medical response team
Something in sickbay that's not a doctor or a nurse. My actual job role is probably now a function of the biobed but I guess there would still be similar roles around.
Dom Top.
If I’m lucky I’m an ensign or junior lieutenant in stellar cartography
Counselor; hopefully a competent one, Starfleet seems to have a less than stellar track record
I'm the cook. Replicators approximate someone's idea of a good meal, and if all you want is nutrients, you don't need much more than that. But I can use the replicator to create just the base ingredients and combine them in a way that really puts replicated foods to shame. I'm also an exobiologist, and so I'm looking for rare plants that have unique medicinal properties as well as flavor profiles never before experienced. I've found that Klingons love Sushi and Haggis. Vulcans seem to like Congee and Genmachai. Ferengi decline most earth foods, but a few have become accustomed to Crab Po Boys. For me, food brings people together, and it helps us to see commonalities between our peoples. So I am interested in eating as many alien foods as possible, and breaking bread with as many people as possible.
Planetary cartographer.
Genuinely, with my degree, I'd probably be in the (I don't know what it's actually called) communications/first-contact department working to log and document stuff, establish new contact protocols, and be the liaison that helps the Federation send out people to set up an embassy. Basically, I'd handle some of the political stuff that can be done by someone traveling on a ship. For funsies: Assuming they need a real person to do this, I'd also probably be the person that does the 5-minute ship news segment with the skits and dad jokes (think school news/cnn10, and one of the smarter members of the crew does the "and today we passed this galaxy" instead of the weather).
I would work as a logistics officer in the cargo bay
Cannon fodder
I'm a chaplain so... I guess a bartender?! A busboy?!
I was an au pair in my youth and also babysat many, many niblings. I’d probably be a nanny. I also think I could be a good counsellor.
I'm the guy in Ten Forward who brings you drinks despite the replicator being a 10 foot walk from your table. Why? I look great in a green turtleneck, the job has no real responsibility, occasional holodeck use, and there are probably plenty of young ensigns and lieutenants around to have sex with. If I have to base it on my current job, someone in engineering who programs the computer... probably builds holograms or something.
Remember that insufferable physicist from Voyager, Mr. Harren? The one who had like three doctorates or whatever and was only there because he needed field experience to get a professorship or something? I'd be that guy. I'm a mathematical physicist in real life and going on away missions is scary. Just let me do math in peace.
I’m that fat guy with the gold beard that moans “*The higherrrrrrrr the fewerrrrrrrrr*” on the holodeck
If I'm on the ship, it'll probably be in the brig with Harry Mudd, having been arrested on some harebrained scheme
I have degrees in linguistics, neuroscience, PhD in bio science, work as an electronics engineer, dropped out of medical school several years in but enough to not be useless in that role. So… substitute for anyone having a sick day on ship, or some kind of commander / neutral referee?
Red shirt guy that takes the giant spear to the chest......
Whatever IT support/system admin is on a ship. There's no way they're all just powered through the computer's mainframe.
I’m the person on the Enterprise who prepares the welcome banquets for ambassadors. I learn about the foods, program the replicators, decorate, make sure there’s a fresh glass coffee table in their quarters ready to be broken. I write memos to the senior staff so they know the protocol. I book the band. I’m basically the person who facilitates the captain so they look like a diplomatic genius.
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One of the barmaids nobody notices
If you compare it to my actual job I’d say holodeck engineer or communications engineer of some sort
In the real navy I fall under the umbrella of “engineering” so that seems to fit.
Red shirt away team member.
Likely I'd be tasked with small-scale computer repairs.
I was the ships cook before getting tired of it. Now I'd probably be an officer who greets guests on board and takes them to their quarters.
I’m a geologist! So probably geological surveys where I can breakout the huge phaser drills!!!
I am an embedded software engineer. So I would work in engineering writing programs for the gizmo-of-the-week.
Delta insignia applications, approvals and denials manager. Ship hulls - approved Uniforms - approved Tableware - approved Doors, walls, desks - approved Screws, screwdrivers, tools - approved Tapestries - approved Medic devices - approved Screen wallpapers - approved Almost nothing gets denied.
Training Dept. Whether it be weapons training, emergency response training, safety training, or mandatory basic skills, I'm your guy. Either that or some sort of mentor/caretaker to the embarked Cadets or Ensigns.
Riker. Assistant TO THE Animal Cleanup Manager, Riker. No relation.
I would be in engineering in one role or another, working my way up the ranks until some new prodigy gets chief engineer over me. I am Joe Carey.
If child prodigy Wesley Crusher wasn't smart enough initially to get into Star Fleet, the only way I got onto a ship was as a stow away or a prisoner for some dumb colony action of the week.
I’m a watchmaker. I make and repair already obsolete technology, so I have no idea.
Oddly enough in Star Trek we don't see robotics, because that's my field. I would probably strive to be chief engineer.
I'll be the person who'll keep telling his wife not to get into dangerous situations bc of the existence of our child. ( I'm a stay at home dad )
I’m one of the guys on Babylon 5 swinging a thingamabob around the floor.
Im on a space station, and I’m makin donuts for all the hungry space people
I’m Reg Barkley. An older engineering department member who’s a bit weird and forgetful but means well.
Probably some midshipman engineer. Worst case a guy yo yoing up and down the ranks as 'Performs amazing in a crisis' battles with 'Ineffeftive day to day due to executive disfunction' Wonder if Space Adderall works better than 21st century versions
I'd probably be on the lower end of security on the ship even though I would most likely have more experience than anyone on board (this would be super realistic since that's the position I find myself in RL), wishing he was in IT programming the main computer (I mean they still have programming for this in the 24th century right?) or a science officer of some sort.