Nov 2, 2026, 4:04 AMI love Star Trek, but when watching Generations the other night I thought, how the hell does Star Fleet function of the crew of the Enterprise was essentially static for 9 seasons? None of the key officers were promoted or moved to new billets where they would grow and develop and eventually become captains or some such.
How is this a system for developing your officers?
It's not like they were out of contact or never in port, they just never promoted anyone.
Starfleet is…odd about that.
The Enterprise-D was like that, the Cerritos was like that, Sisko was a captain but commanded entire fleets, and they freaking *demoted* Kirk because he started sabotaging his own career after they promoted him out of the chair and they were like “okay okay FINE you can have your damn ship back jeez.”
@argv_minus_one @andy there are some promotions
I think Bashir and Dax both get promotions around when Sisko becomes captain
But also Harry gets to command the whole operations team and the night shift without a promotion so I don't know