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ST: TNG

ohtwell

ohtwell

Lifer
Here's my question:

Picard, Riker, Worf, Troi, LaForge, and Beverly Crusher always seem to be awake at the same time. When they go to sleep, which seems like it would be at the same time, who is in control of the ship? I though that maybe it would be Data but he can only be in one place at a time.




: ) Amanda
 
That's when the grunts are in control. The lower ranking officers get to do the "graveyard" shift.
 
They pull shifts. There's a bunch of junior officers that assume the positions while the senior staff is off duty.
 
Some episodes you see Riker and Picard trading off shifts.

But yeah, the Enterprise usually has a 3 shift rotation (except in the 2 parter where captain Edward Jelico takes over command he moves the enterprise to a 4 shift rotation).

So they have different crew members on duty at the same time. Picard, Riker, et al, just always seem to be on duty when the interesting stuff happens.

Apperently there are inter-planetary standards on which shifts have the most experienced crews, so everyone keeps all the interesting stuff to that shift. Thus there's nothing to film in the other shifts 😉
 
Girl.

Do not think about the Star Trek universe.

It is a way of life, a faith. Not something to be questioned.


Now go watch that, WWF, and Nascar and allow me to get back to drinking my Steel Reserve.

 
Oh! So then I have to assume the crew member that is Captain for the moment would be Data.




: ) Amanda
 
Originally posted by: Noriaki
Some episodes you see Riker and Picard trading off shifts.

But yeah, the Enterprise usually has a 3 shift rotation (except in the 2 parter where captain Edward Jelico takes over command he moves the enterprise to a 4 shift rotation).

So they have different crew members on duty at the same time. Picard, Riker, et al, just always seem to be on duty when the interesting stuff happens.

Apperently there are inter-planetary standards on which shifts have the most experienced crews, so everyone keeps all the interesting stuff to that shift. Thus there's nothing to film in the other shifts 😉
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I remember the episode with Captain Jelico. I didn't like him at all. It was a great episode though. 🙂




: ) Amanda
 
Originally posted by: LordJezo
Girl.

Do not think about the Star Trek universe.

It is a way of life, a faith. Not something to be questioned.


Now go watch that, WWF, and Nascar and allow me to get back to drinking my Steel Reserve.
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:|

I'll have you know that I am a woman.








😛




: ) Amanda
 
Originally posted by: ohtwell
Originally posted by: Noriaki
Some episodes you see Riker and Picard trading off shifts.

But yeah, the Enterprise usually has a 3 shift rotation (except in the 2 parter where captain Edward Jelico takes over command he moves the enterprise to a 4 shift rotation).

So they have different crew members on duty at the same time. Picard, Riker, et al, just always seem to be on duty when the interesting stuff happens.

Apperently there are inter-planetary standards on which shifts have the most experienced crews, so everyone keeps all the interesting stuff to that shift. Thus there's nothing to film in the other shifts 😉
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I remember the episode with Captain Jelico. I didn't like him at all. It was a great episode though. 🙂




: ) Amanda
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You're not suppose to like him 😉 He's suppose to be a jerk 🙂

And yes it is a very good episode. 🙂
 
Woman.

Do not think about the Star Trek universe.

It is a way of life, a faith. Not something to be questioned.


Now go watch that, WWF, and Nascar and allow me to get back to drinking my Steel Reserve.
 
Originally posted by: LordJezo
Woman.

Do not think about the Star Trek universe.

It is a way of life, a faith. Not something to be questioned.


Now go watch that, WWF, and Nascar and allow me to get back to drinking my Steel Reserve.
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Hahaha! Thank you! 🙂





: ) Amanda
 
Originally posted by: Noriaki
Some episodes you see Riker and Picard trading off shifts.

But yeah, the Enterprise usually has a 3 shift rotation (except in the 2 parter where captain Edward Jelico takes over command he moves the enterprise to a 4 shift rotation).
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I don't know what's worse, the fact that you said that or that I understand exactly what you are talking about.... 😉


Lethal

 
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
It is a TV show, they get paid so they are on screen.

Please don't dweeb out.
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Who are you talking to and what do you mean by "dweeb out"?




: ) Amanda
 
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
It is a TV show, they get paid so they are on screen.

Please don't dweeb out.
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Are you calling me a dweeb! I sir Evadian of the round table call you out!

 
Originally posted by: LethalWolfe
Originally posted by: Noriaki
Some episodes you see Riker and Picard trading off shifts.

But yeah, the Enterprise usually has a 3 shift rotation (except in the 2 parter where captain Edward Jelico takes over command he moves the enterprise to a 4 shift rotation).
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I don't know what's worse, the fact that you said that or that I understand exactly what you are talking about.... 😉


Lethal
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Hahahahah who cares really 😉

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
It is a TV show, they get paid so they are on screen.

Please don't dweeb out.
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Too late!!

*points dweeb-o-meter at self*
*dweeb-o-meter explodes*

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
It is a TV show, please dont show up in Las Vegas in make-up at the star trek convention. Please.
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Well okay...I'm not that bad. Maybe my dweeb-o-meter just went off the scale and didn't blow up.
I don't go to ST Cons....I just watch the show alot.
 
Did they ever do an episode from the perspective of the night shift? Babylon 5 did that once, in a way. They did an episode shot from the perspective of a maintenance crew, with crazy events going on around them as they do their job. TNG could have put together an outstanding episode like that.

One that comes to mind is the DS9 episode where the Defiant is thrown back in time into the TOS episode "The Trouble With Tribbles". One funny scene is when O'Brien and Bashir are working on some power coupling and manage to take out the lights on part of the deck. They also can't figure out the turbolift.. Classic stuff 😀
 
there was an episode that shows data doing the night watch. the lights dim and everything to simulate night.
 
Well, they said they were making another Star Trek series for television, perhaps it will be Enterprise-D: Graveyard Shift. 😉

In this week's exciting episode of Enterprise-D: Graveyard Shift, we see Ensign Bellweather cope with a potential interplanetary war after the janitor accidentally fires off a Photon Torpedo while cleaning the control panel, and obliterates a city on the planet they are orbiting.
 
Originally posted by: ohtwell
Originally posted by: Noriaki
Some episodes you see Riker and Picard trading off shifts.

But yeah, the Enterprise usually has a 3 shift rotation (except in the 2 parter where captain Edward Jelico takes over command he moves the enterprise to a 4 shift rotation).

So they have different crew members on duty at the same time. Picard, Riker, et al, just always seem to be on duty when the interesting stuff happens.

Apperently there are inter-planetary standards on which shifts have the most experienced crews, so everyone keeps all the interesting stuff to that shift. Thus there's nothing to film in the other shifts 😉
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I remember the episode with Captain Jelico. I didn't like him at all. It was a great episode though. 🙂




: ) Amanda
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