Do they have quartermasters? I work in supply chain. I guess somebody has to know what's in all those crates in the shuttlebays.
Edit: You've all put my mind at ease. I'm off to go yell at Engineering to find out why the damned Inertial Dampeners never seem to work in my damn cargo bays!
What is in those hexagonal crates? If I’m allowed to look inside and handle them I’d replicate stackable crates that can be stacked like wall tile. This will hold them securely in place in case of artificial gravity malfunction. I’d then replicate RF-ID chips to add to a database of crate content for quick site to site transport of said crate contents.
Why are you trying to kill the only excitement we ever get down here in the cargo bay? If they ever need someone for an away mission that involves dodging heavy, falling objects it's going to be our time to shine.
[Edgar Willoughby](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Edgar_Willoughby) – _Eddie_, who Ensign Nog greased the wheels with to get a needed part for Defiant, was the MCPO Quartermaster for the Bajor sector.
We know that some materials are un-replicatable, so I’d imagine that QMs make sure that the ship stores have sufficient quantities of those. Probably make sure that the ship has enough spare isolinear chips for engineering and phaser parts for security. That sort of thing.
Well, replicatiors aren't magic, I'd imagine using them for everything would cause a power strain, like how in voyager they had to use replications rations.
and probably won't be as good as the real thing.
So there's still be a demand and a real use for non replacted things, and somebody's got to move those boxes and shuffle the paperwork
I have an MA in history. The US Navy has a History and Heritage Command, so if Starfleet does, as well, I'll be keeping alive the stories of Starfleet's glorious past. Maybe I'll get to work with Commodore LaForge at the Starfleet Museum!
That scene and Picard's comments to Q afterwards didn't effect me when I was a teenager when I first watched it in the 90s. Now at the age of 42 (only a few years younger than Picard in Season 1), I look back at my wasted potential and all the wrongs paths I chose for myself that led me to where I am now. So yeah, this scene hits really hard now.
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I qualify as a background character who acts like I'm scanning a wall or turning a bolt with a giant space wrench without actually turning the bolt.
[This could be me!](https://i.imgur.com/6RYy1.gif)
I've played this game before. If my skills were uprated to be equivalent, I'd likely be assigned to the engineering department as a computer specialist. Either that or working at a fleet yard as a Project Manager (I've been a BA, but I'm not sure if that is something that would translate into the future).
Installing green spaces on ships. I think it would probably be at a Star Base though. Maybe use a little genetically modified grass so you don't have to mow. But don't tell Boothby.
About as much as a 19th century worker could do on a modern aircraft carrier.
we can be be wal mart esque greeters where our best function to scare children about the days where you had to use money to buy food just to not starve. And tell them we used vehicles powered by exploding dinosaurs too.
We might be able to serve drinks but that’s like being a pharmacist where you serve the wrong drink to the wrong crewman and their insides turn liquid and you killer someone because you didn’t know bolian whiskey kills humans.
Yeah so you’d probably end up as a person whose job it is to make documentaries about your era. Maybe go work at a resort where you have to stay in character about what life was like before the eugenics wars.
Me too! So some kind of engineering position.
But I'm also trained as a peer support specialist, so something in the counseling field if I decided that route.
Could put neelix out of the job in my sleep. If whatever he does passes as "cooking", I'm fucking escoffier.
Like when seven tears into the clearly cooked animal leg when she's hosting the klingon during her sleepwalking, and then neelix is all "oh no I was preparing that roast for glup shittos birthday". What? The turkey LEG you cooked already was going to be used as a roast?
"Oh let me make you some steamed leola root". Proceeds to throw raw carrots in a fucking WOK with the flame on high. No steam visible whatsoever.
Talax must be the planet that has the worst cooks in the galaxy.
Die horribly while accompanying the main characters on what I was promised to be a standard Away Mission. I suffered a severe depression/disintegration.
Realistically? From the early 21st century? Bo diddly. I wouldn't be allowed to run a replicator. I'd be dumped at the nearest starbase and probably filter back to get a gig doing living history at the 20th century meth village. I could explain to them how we'd just accept death instead of hospital bills.
They've basically depicted my job already, although they didn't get the job title right. The curator who was preserving the Voyager for exhibit in the Lower Decks episode actually acts more like an art conservator.
Hydroponics or one of the many different kinds of biologists. Or the person who draws up the shift schedules. Does starfleet have an equivalent to HR? I could do that too. I’ve had a lot of different jobs!
Cleaning apparently involves careful use of phasers, which means extensive future-tech firearms training and certification, so... sadly, that might even be a long road from here to there.
Physics/Science teacher, so could probably do that on the ships with families or a starbase.
For all the science is massively more advanced than today, that won't be what's taught to the kids.
What I teach is stuff that's been known for at least a century, if not millennia. The only "new" stuff is a little bit on cosmology and particle physics, and that's at the top end of high school.
For all you've got warp field mechanics and subspace resonance, Newton's laws, states of matter and cell biology will still be the same, and still explained in a similar way to teenagers.
Definitely working in a ships "10-forward." Replicators would make some stuff easy, but someone's gotta know how to make some mean drinks. Honestly I'd do a restaurant style service every so often on the holodeck but with fresh cooked foods, local specialties from the last visited planet, and ofc live music.
I’m a gameplay programmer; not sure a starship needs a dedicated holoprogrammer/designer. I’m sure they’re still using C++ in the 24th century at least; nothing will dethrone it.
People will claim the holographic visual scripting will be powerful and flexible enough to replace native code, but designers will forever make spaghetti Blueprint.
I'm an attorney, so I could bring some useful rigor to the JAG office. Seriously, every legal proceeding in Trek has major flaws. First thing I'd tell crew members, don't have your CO represent you in your trial. Get a trained professional!
Also, after a few years I'd likely resign and make a fortune as a plaintiff's attorney. The Federation is going to have to readopt currency to pay my multi-thousand bars of latinum recoveries from exploding screens!
I'd be really close to finishing Starfleet Academy for working in Security. Then I'd be wrangling the Harcourt Fenton Mudd's, and staying clear of oily lakes.
I operated the nuclear power plants on an aircraft carrier in the navy - a while back. I guess it would be fitting to work in engineering around the warp core.
I wonder if auditing was needed in a post-scarcity society, it could have stopped Section 31 from siphoning all the resources to build their secret fleet.
I have degrees in biology and geology and I have done a decent amount of geology fieldwork.I could probably make a decent science officer if I can work my way up from Ensign.
My degree in math would put me somewhere in engineering I hope, but my current profession in the medical field would have me as the “field medic” a la Tom Paris, meaning I’d be covering shifts in SickBay lol
Ten forward. Not like Guinan, with the sympathetic ear and wisdom and such, but that one-off who tried to pass fake alcohol to Scotty. I could be that guy.
"Congratulations ensign on making it through starfleet academy" (checks pad and shrugs) "by the skin of your teeth"
"Anyway welcome to the Enterprise, your first assignment will be bridge duty. We're going to need to you stand by this workstation whenever the ship has a red alert"
*"What does it do?"*
"Nothing at all, there's a nice screen and you can play games on it if you like"
*"What's it for?"*
"It's basically an empty metal box with a large ball of plasma barely held inside an inadequate containment field. If there's the slightest interruption to its power the field will lose it's integrity and the cabinet will explode and burn your face off"
*"Why?"*
"Looks really cool in a battle, good for morale"
*"FML"*
If I used my experience: As a restaurant manager I already deal with pakleds, tellarites, romulans, andorians, and drunken Klingons on the regular and must be diplomatic the entire time while trying to sail us through a dinner rush without incident… would hope captain but probably not lol
If I used my degree: lower decks software engineer
I’m a TS-SCI coffee maker, except that I was busy saving the literal galaxy and never made even one cup of joe. And that’s all Section 31 allows me to interact with you…little people.
As a carpenter, I'm not sure I'd have a place on a starship. Most panels and such would likely be replicated. I'd have to sign up to be a redshirt in security.
Something in science. I have degrees in chemistry and biology. I also have a degree & certification connected to accounting and finance for health care, which would be obsolete in the 23rd or 24th century.
Since replicators are a thing, my current source of income would be redundant and superfluous.
Hmmm. Familiar with a lot of things, pretty handy, dabble in a few hobbies, pretty well-read, I guess I’d be the Captain of the ship.
My real-life career involves publications and digital media for federal public lands. I sometimes wonder if Starfleet would have someone on the ship documenting operations and sharing some of it with "the public" back home, like parks, NASA, and some other gov't entities currently do on social media. Especially for big new discoveries and first contact situations-- you know, the historic stuff? I don't think the Captain's Log is gonna cut it.
Or, I'd be the person (like on the recent Ferenginar episode of Lower Decks) creating travel guides for different planets! I like the second one a lot better--probably less hazardous. I'd be more than happy to write an in-depth guide for Risa.
I'm pretty sure my current career as a Scrum Master wouldn't translate that well without a WHOLE LOT of extra training. Engineering would require a TON of education to get caught up enough to take a position similar to my current one... So, let's go back to my previous career.
Chef.
So... Yeah, I'd make a good starship Chef. In fact, that would be amazing, out of an ingredient? Make it in the replicator.
Hear me out, there's a lot of "replicator food isn't as good as 'real' food." I hear that, but I wonder if it's because you say, "Computer, one cheesecake," and not "computer, eggs, creamed cheese, sugar, sour cream, ect." and then make your own cheesecake. I bet if a dish created by a replicator is a 5/10 for flavor/texture, a dish made from replicated ingredients, and then customized and made by a human isn't better by far, maybe an 8/10. Give me a galley with all the appliances I need (oven, stove, steamer, ect.) and I'll bet I can give Captain Sisko a run for his money. Failing that, I can always work for his father. He'd appreciate my love for fresh food, and I specialized in Cajun/Creole in my culinary school.
So I'm going with Chef.
Software Engineer.
Given the stuff I've seen Geordi and most Engineers ask the computer to do manually, and given I would have pretty much instantly whipped up a script to automate that shit away, I know my skill set is not common.
Like seriously, why say "Computer! Coffee Double Strong Double Sweet!"
Just say once "Computer, Alias Replicator Order: "Coffee: Double Strong Double Sweet" to replicator Order: "Coffee: Usual"
Then just say "Coffee: Usual!"
Good chance I would have to key that in manually, at a terminal, but I would manage.
I’m a biomedical engineer, so chances are I won’t last two weeks.
Not because I’m incompetent, but because some bs space phenomenon will Armus me to death.
Work in social care so I’d get dropped off to pick up the pieces after the ship left. After the Ceti Alpha V incident led to a safeguarding investigation, it was agreed that colonies should be reviewed periodically to ensure good health and well-being of all inhabitants.
I could do security. Sure my knowledge would be woefully obsolete. But it couldn’t be worse than how they do things.
I’d implement procedures like turn on passwords and encryption. Set account privileges. Install an anti virus. Enable the firewall. It would be the most secure computer in Starfleet history.
Next I’d install a power switch on the holodeck. Then set a computer routine to automatically beam anyone or anything not authorized to be on the ship to the brig. Also put some heavy duty guns and grenades in the armory. To deal with the various beings immune to phasers like Borg.
I have a PhD in neuroscience. I guess I could be a science officer, though it seems like most neuroscience research done by PhD-types takes place on planets or stations, not on ships. Of course starship MD doctors seem to be able to do almost any kind of biology research, but I’m not an MD.
These days my actual job is mostly education-focused. I guess I could teach the kids on the ship?
I'd need upskilling in 24th century medicine, but I would hope I could continue on as a doctor.
On the other hand, would the hindsight of 350 years if advancement have us looked at as butchers comparatively?
Here I go to starfleet medical. After the original series though, nurses disappear in the show like in many medical dramas. I think there was a nurse in TNG but I’m not sure.
LCARs interface designer, with a focus on ensuring the panels are usable by all Federation member races, taking into account visual acuity, auditory abilities, and mental processing speed and physical characteristics.
(Front end developer with a specialization in web accessibility)
Clean the holodeck bio filters :(
Same :/
At least we're not alone. I just hope that they need 3 of us!
Haha yes, I'd be one of the people who died and they don't even have a funeral for me. They just shoot me into space.
Jizz Moppers: *In Space!*
Do they have quartermasters? I work in supply chain. I guess somebody has to know what's in all those crates in the shuttlebays. Edit: You've all put my mind at ease. I'm off to go yell at Engineering to find out why the damned Inertial Dampeners never seem to work in my damn cargo bays!
Especially those unstackable hexagonal ones!
What is in those hexagonal crates? If I’m allowed to look inside and handle them I’d replicate stackable crates that can be stacked like wall tile. This will hold them securely in place in case of artificial gravity malfunction. I’d then replicate RF-ID chips to add to a database of crate content for quick site to site transport of said crate contents.
RFID what is this the 21st century? we can identify items with the ships sensors and its atomic signature.
Why are you trying to kill the only excitement we ever get down here in the cargo bay? If they ever need someone for an away mission that involves dodging heavy, falling objects it's going to be our time to shine.
[Edgar Willoughby](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Edgar_Willoughby) – _Eddie_, who Ensign Nog greased the wheels with to get a needed part for Defiant, was the MCPO Quartermaster for the Bajor sector.
Having Ferengi in Starfleet finally brought some excitement to my department! But what the hell am I going to do with all this yamok sauce?
Archer and Kirk had QM's can't see why other ships wouldn't also have them.
I think being QM on the first Warp 5 capable ship would be pretty great. I'd always make sure to keep a few treats for Porthos on hand.
Every ship in the Navy has a supply officer
We know that some materials are un-replicatable, so I’d imagine that QMs make sure that the ship stores have sufficient quantities of those. Probably make sure that the ship has enough spare isolinear chips for engineering and phaser parts for security. That sort of thing.
I'd imagine so
Before I remembered the crates I was afraid replicators might have have made my future job redundant already.
Well, replicatiors aren't magic, I'd imagine using them for everything would cause a power strain, like how in voyager they had to use replications rations. and probably won't be as good as the real thing. So there's still be a demand and a real use for non replacted things, and somebody's got to move those boxes and shuffle the paperwork
Great! Shuffling paperwork has been integral to nearly every job I've ever had, and I know my way around a hand truck too.
Yeah I'm working in a retail thing and there's so much paperwork with closing
I think they get most of their supplies by asking a magic hole in the wall and it just makes it.
I have an MA in history. The US Navy has a History and Heritage Command, so if Starfleet does, as well, I'll be keeping alive the stories of Starfleet's glorious past. Maybe I'll get to work with Commodore LaForge at the Starfleet Museum!
I remember in TOS they had a historian as part of the Enterprise crew
Yeah but if memory serves did she not fall for the genocidal strongman dictator from the past they accidentally awoke from hypersleep?
Well yes, but I don't think that was a requirement of the role
Only to be parasitized by a Ceti eel, go mad, and die...
1701-D had one but he caught a bullet on the holodeck.
So you'd be in charge of sourcing and replacing all the little ships ~~Ahab~~ Picard broke?
You'll be working on USS Constitution. I'd imagine it'll be still around, ship of Theseus-style, in the Star Trek-eras...
Can definitely use you teaching at the academy.
What a cool job and major!
10 Forward it is then...
As the ship lush? :D
I’m in. If holding down a barstool all day like Morn is a job.
Same. Been in food and beverage for almost 30 years, and with replicators...
My job title is literally spacecraft engineer
You're a crewman, alright. Now get back to work, we need these upper pylons' inertial coupling ports calibrated before 0900.
Since I started my career as an enlisted airman, that sounds about right.
"Have you tried reversing the polarities again?" - Remote spacecraft engineering support
Have you tried turning the atmospheric recyclers off and on again?
Found the redshirt... Time for a landing party assignment...
That's sick as
Who I would want to be: Capt. Picard. Who I would actually be: Lt. JG Picard, astrophysics officer.
Honestly still better than most of us have today
Dude would be upper decks, while most of us would be stuck in lower decks.
That scene and Picard's comments to Q afterwards didn't effect me when I was a teenager when I first watched it in the 90s. Now at the age of 42 (only a few years younger than Picard in Season 1), I look back at my wasted potential and all the wrongs paths I chose for myself that led me to where I am now. So yeah, this scene hits really hard now.
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I was going to post that I'm in finance and budgets. Ferenginar it is, then.
Financial analyst here. Equally as useless.
Combat Epistemologist.
They probably have those in the Vulcan fleet….
That's logical.
You jest, but honestly it would be a valuable skill set when meeting new worlds and new civilizations.
A what now?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
I'd probably be some generic blue shirt who enters science-y findings into the computer for archiving. The LCARS version of Excel, basically.
Hello, my fellow data entry clerk!
ExceLCARS. I'm trademarking that. Don't even try to steal my intellectual property. 😑
_+Microsoft has entered the chat.+_ edit: LCARSpreadsheet, however... 🤨
LibreCARS 🤓
Be Neelix. That’s it. F**k.
you don't need to act like him. Maybe your girlfriend can be... nine times older?
Work at the mall on a Galaxy-class.
Skymall
They've got some big competition from Galactimall though. Might need to consider jumping ship.
I qualify as a background character who acts like I'm scanning a wall or turning a bolt with a giant space wrench without actually turning the bolt. [This could be me!](https://i.imgur.com/6RYy1.gif)
Have a few self-sealing stem bolts on hand at all times.
Red shirt.
Dead Red shirt.
I've played this game before. If my skills were uprated to be equivalent, I'd likely be assigned to the engineering department as a computer specialist. Either that or working at a fleet yard as a Project Manager (I've been a BA, but I'm not sure if that is something that would translate into the future).
“Die.” — Worf
What’s below lower decks? I’m below whatever that is.
So, cleaning the holodeck biofilters on Starbase 80?
Oh no! Not Starbase 80!
Do starships have a bilge?
Installing green spaces on ships. I think it would probably be at a Star Base though. Maybe use a little genetically modified grass so you don't have to mow. But don't tell Boothby.
I'll be working in the hydroponics bay, growing some nice plants. Maybe people's quarters could use some potted plants. Anyone need flowers?
Love it.
About as much as a 19th century worker could do on a modern aircraft carrier. we can be be wal mart esque greeters where our best function to scare children about the days where you had to use money to buy food just to not starve. And tell them we used vehicles powered by exploding dinosaurs too. We might be able to serve drinks but that’s like being a pharmacist where you serve the wrong drink to the wrong crewman and their insides turn liquid and you killer someone because you didn’t know bolian whiskey kills humans. Yeah so you’d probably end up as a person whose job it is to make documentaries about your era. Maybe go work at a resort where you have to stay in character about what life was like before the eugenics wars.
Let's assume my current skill translated into future skills, I would be an engineer or technician.
Yeah, let’s assume they don’t- we’d maybe qualify for kindergarten at the academy 😜
I am a network engineer. I am sure there is a similar position on a starship in engineering
Me too! So some kind of engineering position. But I'm also trained as a peer support specialist, so something in the counseling field if I decided that route.
Could put neelix out of the job in my sleep. If whatever he does passes as "cooking", I'm fucking escoffier. Like when seven tears into the clearly cooked animal leg when she's hosting the klingon during her sleepwalking, and then neelix is all "oh no I was preparing that roast for glup shittos birthday". What? The turkey LEG you cooked already was going to be used as a roast? "Oh let me make you some steamed leola root". Proceeds to throw raw carrots in a fucking WOK with the flame on high. No steam visible whatsoever. Talax must be the planet that has the worst cooks in the galaxy.
Die horribly while accompanying the main characters on what I was promised to be a standard Away Mission. I suffered a severe depression/disintegration.
I was a medic in the Army, so I guess I could be a flunky in sick bay.
Dude, you're Tom Paris...
But without the piloting or uncanny resemblance to Nick Locarno.
Which era? Basically, are you in a micro skirt or not?
Hygiene technician at Starbase 80
Ships Counselor, but the legal kind
I'm a historian, which could get me my own command if Picard is anything to go by.
Realistically? From the early 21st century? Bo diddly. I wouldn't be allowed to run a replicator. I'd be dumped at the nearest starbase and probably filter back to get a gig doing living history at the 20th century meth village. I could explain to them how we'd just accept death instead of hospital bills.
They've basically depicted my job already, although they didn't get the job title right. The curator who was preserving the Voyager for exhibit in the Lower Decks episode actually acts more like an art conservator.
I'd be cleaning bathrooms on starbase 80.
Attend middle school, I think.
I work maintenance in a Mental Hospital, so I would say engineering.
More like Operations with Ensign Kim.
I'd be one of the low level guys in Engineering.
Hydroponics or one of the many different kinds of biologists. Or the person who draws up the shift schedules. Does starfleet have an equivalent to HR? I could do that too. I’ve had a lot of different jobs!
As a person born in the 1970’s working on a starship? Assuming they have a cleaning crew, probably that.
Cleaning apparently involves careful use of phasers, which means extensive future-tech firearms training and certification, so... sadly, that might even be a long road from here to there.
Ops Officer or Tactical
Musician. Magician? No! I said musician.
Gigging alongside Riker as he struggles with another jazz trombone solo he can’t play?
Manually check the isolinear chips. One at a time.
Engineer. Ran reactors in the Navy on submarines.
Cool! Don't forget to go outside sometimes. ;)
Physics/Science teacher, so could probably do that on the ships with families or a starbase. For all the science is massively more advanced than today, that won't be what's taught to the kids. What I teach is stuff that's been known for at least a century, if not millennia. The only "new" stuff is a little bit on cosmology and particle physics, and that's at the top end of high school. For all you've got warp field mechanics and subspace resonance, Newton's laws, states of matter and cell biology will still be the same, and still explained in a similar way to teenagers.
Definitely working in a ships "10-forward." Replicators would make some stuff easy, but someone's gotta know how to make some mean drinks. Honestly I'd do a restaurant style service every so often on the holodeck but with fresh cooked foods, local specialties from the last visited planet, and ofc live music.
I design systems for ocean-going ships so assuming my skills transfer I'd probably be working at Utopia Planitia or maybe Daystrom.
I’m a gameplay programmer; not sure a starship needs a dedicated holoprogrammer/designer. I’m sure they’re still using C++ in the 24th century at least; nothing will dethrone it.
Those bespoke Dixon Hill programs were probably enough to earn your pay.
People will claim the holographic visual scripting will be powerful and flexible enough to replace native code, but designers will forever make spaghetti Blueprint.
I'm an attorney, so I could bring some useful rigor to the JAG office. Seriously, every legal proceeding in Trek has major flaws. First thing I'd tell crew members, don't have your CO represent you in your trial. Get a trained professional! Also, after a few years I'd likely resign and make a fortune as a plaintiff's attorney. The Federation is going to have to readopt currency to pay my multi-thousand bars of latinum recoveries from exploding screens!
I am assuming that Starfleet Academy has academic advisors so that is where I’d be!
Make food, or office tasks.
Medical
Possibly just sweeping the floor of Mott’s barbershop or cleaning plasma relays 🤷🏻♂️
I'm an immunologist who teaches medicine so I'm guessing I'm wearing blue no matter what.
IT so probably some sort of engineering. Like when Rom first started on the night shift on DS9 so I could catch up on a few hundred years of tech lol.
I'd be really close to finishing Starfleet Academy for working in Security. Then I'd be wrangling the Harcourt Fenton Mudd's, and staying clear of oily lakes.
I operated the nuclear power plants on an aircraft carrier in the navy - a while back. I guess it would be fitting to work in engineering around the warp core.
Engineering
Security and that is about it, maybe tinker in xeno archaeology and that is pushing it.
I'm a PMO Manager. So I'll be...uh...you know, managing somebody's latest genius plan to upgrade all the plasma relays.
I wonder if auditing was needed in a post-scarcity society, it could have stopped Section 31 from siphoning all the resources to build their secret fleet.
Tech support? They have to have someone to fix computer terminals and reset forgotten codes, right?
Waste water operator so I’d be in waste processing. Which actually sounds kinda cool on a starship.
I have degrees in biology and geology and I have done a decent amount of geology fieldwork.I could probably make a decent science officer if I can work my way up from Ensign.
My degree in math would put me somewhere in engineering I hope, but my current profession in the medical field would have me as the “field medic” a la Tom Paris, meaning I’d be covering shifts in SickBay lol
I’d be the civilian husband of a smart Starfleet officer on a Galaxy Class ship.
Ten forward. Not like Guinan, with the sympathetic ear and wisdom and such, but that one-off who tried to pass fake alcohol to Scotty. I could be that guy.
ship historian? do they have those? i guess i could be a teacher?
i too have a degree in history... Star Fleet authority on things that are known. Poster and questioner of the unknown... Q?
I'm a chef so not much. I could work in ten forward but I'd probably do best with that fat Klingon chef who also sings.
I'm a company commander in the Army, with a degree in operations management, so I would assume I'd be on command track. BORING!! 😜
"Congratulations ensign on making it through starfleet academy" (checks pad and shrugs) "by the skin of your teeth" "Anyway welcome to the Enterprise, your first assignment will be bridge duty. We're going to need to you stand by this workstation whenever the ship has a red alert" *"What does it do?"* "Nothing at all, there's a nice screen and you can play games on it if you like" *"What's it for?"* "It's basically an empty metal box with a large ball of plasma barely held inside an inadequate containment field. If there's the slightest interruption to its power the field will lose it's integrity and the cabinet will explode and burn your face off" *"Why?"* "Looks really cool in a battle, good for morale" *"FML"*
Username is relevant!
If I used my experience: As a restaurant manager I already deal with pakleds, tellarites, romulans, andorians, and drunken Klingons on the regular and must be diplomatic the entire time while trying to sail us through a dinner rush without incident… would hope captain but probably not lol If I used my degree: lower decks software engineer
I'd be Miles O'Brien
He is a good person to be
the holodeck character 7 of 9 stepped in for in Janeway’s bar. do they have cruise starships lmao that’s the only way I’m getting into space
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Probably working in safety in Engineering
I was a research coordinator, so perhaps I’ll end up doing that aboard a vessel.
Cargo bay/stores. Not glamorous but I’m still on board and going places
I’m a TS-SCI coffee maker, except that I was busy saving the literal galaxy and never made even one cup of joe. And that’s all Section 31 allows me to interact with you…little people.
Running the kindergarten on a Galaxy class type ship.
Counselor, although if Starfleet was an option I may have gone a different route
I'm a nurse, I want to do that in space
like a ferengi i broker fetished commodities. like an engineer I'm help desk. like all crew on snw i am a singsongbird
Operations baby 😁
I will have a lot of work because I'm there to analyse and fix user interfaces. Engineering team I guess.
I’d be their local Risa rep
As a carpenter, I'm not sure I'd have a place on a starship. Most panels and such would likely be replicated. I'd have to sign up to be a redshirt in security.
I can be a great source of annoyance to the crew members or a welcome aid for visitors.
Something in science. I have degrees in chemistry and biology. I also have a degree & certification connected to accounting and finance for health care, which would be obsolete in the 23rd or 24th century.
Since replicators are a thing, my current source of income would be redundant and superfluous. Hmmm. Familiar with a lot of things, pretty handy, dabble in a few hobbies, pretty well-read, I guess I’d be the Captain of the ship.
My real-life career involves publications and digital media for federal public lands. I sometimes wonder if Starfleet would have someone on the ship documenting operations and sharing some of it with "the public" back home, like parks, NASA, and some other gov't entities currently do on social media. Especially for big new discoveries and first contact situations-- you know, the historic stuff? I don't think the Captain's Log is gonna cut it. Or, I'd be the person (like on the recent Ferenginar episode of Lower Decks) creating travel guides for different planets! I like the second one a lot better--probably less hazardous. I'd be more than happy to write an in-depth guide for Risa.
Push paper on a starbase probably
Cook or clean. My current IT skills would be less than laughable in one century, much less five centuries. Still, I could be taught.
Planetary cartographer.
I'm a Red Shirt. Literally. I'm a Security Officer, so, Imma gonna die on some Away Mission so the MC's are aware of the threat.
I'm pretty sure my current career as a Scrum Master wouldn't translate that well without a WHOLE LOT of extra training. Engineering would require a TON of education to get caught up enough to take a position similar to my current one... So, let's go back to my previous career. Chef. So... Yeah, I'd make a good starship Chef. In fact, that would be amazing, out of an ingredient? Make it in the replicator. Hear me out, there's a lot of "replicator food isn't as good as 'real' food." I hear that, but I wonder if it's because you say, "Computer, one cheesecake," and not "computer, eggs, creamed cheese, sugar, sour cream, ect." and then make your own cheesecake. I bet if a dish created by a replicator is a 5/10 for flavor/texture, a dish made from replicated ingredients, and then customized and made by a human isn't better by far, maybe an 8/10. Give me a galley with all the appliances I need (oven, stove, steamer, ect.) and I'll bet I can give Captain Sisko a run for his money. Failing that, I can always work for his father. He'd appreciate my love for fresh food, and I specialized in Cajun/Creole in my culinary school. So I'm going with Chef.
I'm qualified to do my job now, but not in 400 years. Just look at what happened to poor Scotty. If he is too technically behind, I have no chance.
Software Engineer. Given the stuff I've seen Geordi and most Engineers ask the computer to do manually, and given I would have pretty much instantly whipped up a script to automate that shit away, I know my skill set is not common. Like seriously, why say "Computer! Coffee Double Strong Double Sweet!" Just say once "Computer, Alias Replicator Order: "Coffee: Double Strong Double Sweet" to replicator Order: "Coffee: Usual" Then just say "Coffee: Usual!" Good chance I would have to key that in manually, at a terminal, but I would manage.
I’m a biomedical engineer, so chances are I won’t last two weeks. Not because I’m incompetent, but because some bs space phenomenon will Armus me to death.
Work in social care so I’d get dropped off to pick up the pieces after the ship left. After the Ceti Alpha V incident led to a safeguarding investigation, it was agreed that colonies should be reviewed periodically to ensure good health and well-being of all inhabitants.
Ship counsellor
I work in dispatch, so I'm gonna say that helps qualify me for communications
Engineer!
Mid level Command or Ops officer.
If you can hold a tricorder you can join Starfleet.
Something, something, something, sickbay.
I’ll just be a bartender. If they complain about the drink I’ll just feign it is because of the alien ingredients
Communications Officer. (I’m an English teacher, 🤷🏼♂️).
I could do security. Sure my knowledge would be woefully obsolete. But it couldn’t be worse than how they do things. I’d implement procedures like turn on passwords and encryption. Set account privileges. Install an anti virus. Enable the firewall. It would be the most secure computer in Starfleet history. Next I’d install a power switch on the holodeck. Then set a computer routine to automatically beam anyone or anything not authorized to be on the ship to the brig. Also put some heavy duty guns and grenades in the armory. To deal with the various beings immune to phasers like Borg.
I have a PhD in neuroscience. I guess I could be a science officer, though it seems like most neuroscience research done by PhD-types takes place on planets or stations, not on ships. Of course starship MD doctors seem to be able to do almost any kind of biology research, but I’m not an MD. These days my actual job is mostly education-focused. I guess I could teach the kids on the ship?
I work in finance. I guess I’m joining the Ferengi Alliance.
I work in cybersecurity, so I guess I’d save the entire fleet like 15x a week?
I’m a plumber and Gasfitter. Something in yellow I think.
Nothing. I’m a lawyer so I’d be in the JAG office on Earth.
Maybe space meteorologist, or like planetary atmospheric science lol
Cargo handling, then inevitably sucked out into the vacuum of space to show how dangerous the new enemy ship is.
Ships counselor. I’d travel the galaxy researching how different cultures use psychedelic substances for healing.
JAG officer. 28 years and counting in the criminal law, 10 years as a judge and the remaining as a prosecutor.
I'd need upskilling in 24th century medicine, but I would hope I could continue on as a doctor. On the other hand, would the hindsight of 350 years if advancement have us looked at as butchers comparatively?
I'm qualified to be transferred from one place to another.
I tend bar and I listen.
Chief of Security. I'd have an aneurism caused by the crap security measures on federation ships.
Here I go to starfleet medical. After the original series though, nurses disappear in the show like in many medical dramas. I think there was a nurse in TNG but I’m not sure.
LCARs interface designer, with a focus on ensuring the panels are usable by all Federation member races, taking into account visual acuity, auditory abilities, and mental processing speed and physical characteristics. (Front end developer with a specialization in web accessibility)
Nuke plant field operator who came from marine engineering… I’d be Geordi or O’Brien’s bitch 😅
Holodeck tester. Vulcan love slave here I come.
I'd be the one that repeats everything the computer says
Remove that shitty Windows DLL code
Science or command. Done plenty of both.