granvold@tymix.UUCP (Tom Granvold) (05/25/84)
- Why not point out a new wrinkle to the Startrek universe and the question of chain of command? In addition to the T.V. series, motion pictures, books, comic books and T.V. cartoons, there is now (actually has been for about nine months) another source of Startrek material. This is Startrek, The Role Playing Game by FASA Corp. They recieved a license from Paramont Pictures to do the game. They have produced a very good game (somewhat expensive though). They have gone to great lenghts to remain true to the 'Startrek Universe'. Due to the nature of role playing games, they have been forced to add many details that are not covered otherwise. This brings me to the question of chain of command. In the basic rulebook, page 90, they list the chain of command as: Captain, First Offices, Chief Engineer, Chief Navigator, Chief Helmsman, Chief Communications Officer. The obvious (spelling?) thing about this list, is that the Chief Medical Officer (McCoy) is not on it. But, on page 33 it states that the Chief Medical Officer does go to the Star Fleet Academy and Command School as do all the others in the list above. Has anyone seen the boardgame, Star Fleet Battles? This is a large and complicated game detailing battles between starships. In the few years it has been around, they have added a lot of material to the 'Startrek Universe'. All of this material centers around spaceships, but does include some new alien races not seen elsewhere. By the way this games is produces by Task Force Games. Tom Granvold Tymshare Cupertino, Calif. decvax!ucbvax!oliveb!tymix!granvold
merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) (05/27/84)
{ Belch } David Gerrold's book on Star Trek, during his interview with Nichelle Nichols, stated that Uhura was supposedly reasonably well up there in the chain of command. However, the network balked at the idea of having a woman in charge of such a complex thing as a starship...a black woman, in fact! So they wrote her out of it.
mnw@trwrba.UUCP (Michael N. Washington) (05/29/84)
That is exactly the way that I understood the chain of command originally set up by Roddenberry. Michael N. Washington TRW E&DS Redondo Beach, Calif. 90278 trwrba!mnw