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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 844179" data-attributes="member: 710">I might have missed that, if they really explained it somewhere. But it makes no real sense, because Paris was promoted.In "modern" days there is a reason why certain officers are not promoted: It does cost to much. (This is especially true for the German Police - if an police officer has some additional education in new police techniques, and is going to be certified for it, there are only a limited number of As (usually none), Bs (very few) and so on... they can distribiute among the officers!)But there would be no problem to do this in Starfleet, because they don`t need money to pay them (especially not on the Voyager). And for commanding purposes: there is a difference between rank and position. The Captain of a ship does not need to have the rank "Captain" (we saw this on Deep Space Nine, where Sisko was the longest time "only" Commander), he could be anything from Ensign to Admiral, though their might still be some limitations due to special education for this job. If Commander Sisko is Captain of the USS Defiant, and Captain Picard beams aboard, Picard does not suddenly become the Captain of the Defiant, and he could not automatically get this position just because he has a higher rank. (But special circumstances might still allow him to overtake control...)Well, at least that how "modern day" command structures work (though often they use other names for the ranks...)Well, but this is not the topic of this thread, so back to your regular scheduled Enterprise critics <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Mustrum Ridcully</blockquote>

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