That’s just alpha shift. We only ever see Star Trek shows from their viewpoint (with some episodes and lower decks as exceptions). AFAIK there’s three or four shifts on board those vessels?
Well back in the day it’d be every important officer plus the captain. So that’s progress I suppose.
Well, at least we know they will return. Imagine the transporter was full of uncredited redshirts…
Tasha Yarr would like a word.
And the word is “Fully functional?”
Maybe Star Trek Captains have a sort of Meta knowledge?
They know when they send important characters, they will most likely all come back.
So by not sending redshirts, the captain is just looking out for the crew!
Well, at least we know they will return.
Unless one of their contracts is up for renegotiation.
“Hey now, they didn’t send Troi down! She’ll be able to do something to help on the ship… probably.”
“The away mission is to save Troi.”
“Well shit.”
Given that the transporter guy is still wearing the first version of the uniform, it’s safe to assume that the Enterprise’s yet-undiscovered MVP, Miles O’Brien is still on board. He’ll be able to fix whatever pops up in the absence of the senior staff.
“Hey now, they didn’t send Troi down! She’ll be able to do something to help on the ship… probably.”
She might uh… bring the ship to them.
It may have been before his decommissioning. He started as a Lieutenant.
I mean, there were clearly only 20, maybe 30 people on the ship. So it makes sense.
There wasn’t anyone besides Beverly Crusher.
According to memory alpha a Galaxy-class starship such as the USS Enterprise-D normally had a complement of approximately 1,000-6,000 crewmembers, including civilian residents and families.
That’s all well and good, but I’m using evidence from the show as canon
And it was pretty clear that they only staffed with 20-30 people.
Gosh!
Lol did you “uhm, ackshully” in a joke thread about joking to a joke
The rest being “red shirts” so who cares.
Picard will be fine manning the ship alone.
Remember the Star Gazer and Wolf 359?
Don’t forget “Starship Mine”, aka the Die Hard episode.
“I was going to enjoy some shore leave, but these terrorists attacked, and now I’m stuck in the Jeffrey’s Tubes doing a Die Hard. I’ve never even seen the historical drama it is named after!”
Picard? Crusher was the only one on that ship.
How many officers died during those dangerous missions? Maybe this decision isn’t that stupid?
It reminds me of when I send my A-team on a mission in XCOM: it’s devastating if they die, but they’re also the ones most likely to succeed.
XCOM A-Team in theory: They’re the best, they can solve any problem.
XCOM A-Team in practice: It’s March and we just spotted a Snakeman on this terror mission so our soldiers will spend their remaining time units running back to the Skyranger while screaming like little girls.
There was one where Picard died.
Direct intervention by Q is the only thing that saved him.
If I had a nickel for every time that happened! Well…I guess I would have ten cents. But you have to admit, it’s weird that it happened twice.
Well yeah, have you seen how small their budget for extras is???
Contributes to my theory that Star Trek is in reality an existentialist dystopia with everyone on the Enterprise competing to get onboard for the chance at a meaningful death.
The Klingons are starting to sound more and more reasonable.
“Glory? No thanks. I just want to die.”
