Timeline for How come there are no middle-aged senior officers on the Enterprise D other than Picard?
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| Feb 4, 2023 at 20:05 | comment | added | einpoklum | @Spencer: He was a lieutenant (junior-grade) in Tapestry. | |
| Feb 3, 2023 at 19:31 | comment | added | Spencer | I do remember one TNG episode with a middle-aged ensign...Jean-Luc Picard. | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 0:03 | history | edited | Andrew | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 5, 2020 at 19:11 | vote | accept | einpoklum | ||
| Jul 17, 2018 at 4:49 | answer | added | William Clint Moore | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 22:02 | answer | added | tbrookside | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 21:43 | answer | added | ThePopMachine | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 21:36 | comment | added | Schwern | I've added to my answer the only two instances I can think of in the TNG/DS9/VOY era explicitly dealing with promotion and career: Riker in Best Of Both Worlds and Barclay in Hollow Pursuits. These are different from someone simply being promoted as they are explicitly about how promotion is viewed in Starfleet. | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 21:16 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | @einpoklum: OK. Retracted. | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 21:15 | history | edited | einpoklum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2018 at 21:10 | comment | added | einpoklum | @ThePopMachine: It may be somewhat related, but really not a dupe, see edit. You could have also noticed the answer there doesn't address my question. | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 16:10 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | @NKCampbell, well, as we know, it doesn't matter what the question asks, it matters what it answers (even though I personally think this policy is folly). But I admit it's borderline, and I merely draw attention to the related question and voters should consider whether this question is answered there or not. | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 16:06 | comment | added | NKCampbell | seems to be asking the opposite @ThePopMachine as the proposed dupe - or do I misunderstand? | |
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| Jul 16, 2018 at 15:33 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | Possible duplicate of In Star Trek, are there any (named) low-ranking older officers? | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 15:19 | comment | added | Keith Morrison | @Steve-O: the main characters of TNG, not counting Data and Wesley, were in 2364 (year 1 of the series): Picard 59 (older than Patrick Stewart); Riker 29; La Forge 29; Crusher 40; Worf 24; Troi 28; Yar 27. | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 9:52 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | Starfleet doesn’t have many middle-aged men available, as they’re needed to fill the large number of Incompetent Interfering Admiral positions across the quadrant. | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 5:42 | answer | added | Schwern | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 15, 2018 at 22:25 | comment | added | einpoklum | @HamSandwich: Right you are. | |
| Jul 15, 2018 at 21:49 | history | edited | Ham Sandwich | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 15, 2018 at 21:48 | comment | added | Ham Sandwich | A cannon is a big gun, even bigger than the one that Kirk used to down the Gorn. | |
| Jul 15, 2018 at 21:32 | comment | added | einpoklum | @AzorAhai: That was in season 1 IIRC. | |
| Jul 15, 2018 at 18:46 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | Wasn't there a little subplot about him not wanting be promoted to Admiral? Maybe he just didn't leave | |
| S Jul 15, 2018 at 15:42 | history | suggested | Mike Harris | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 15, 2018 at 15:02 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1018511135866281985 | ||
| Jul 15, 2018 at 14:58 | answer | added | einpoklum | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jul 15, 2018 at 14:39 | comment | added | einpoklum | @Steve-O: I'm guesstimating based on appearance, behavior, and known personal histories. As for Picard - he was put in command of the Enterprise at age 50 or so, after a long tenure as captain of the Stargazer (although perhaps not all of it in the Captain rank). | |
| Jul 15, 2018 at 14:13 | comment | added | einpoklum | @Valorum: That sounds about right, which is why I said 45-50 or so. | |
| Jul 15, 2018 at 13:19 | answer | added | Mike Scott | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 15, 2018 at 13:00 | comment | added | Hans Olo | While this assertion is true for the main cast, in the show there are several unnamed background cast members who are equally as old as Picard. Scrolling through Memory Alpha might be a good idea | |
| Jul 15, 2018 at 12:45 | comment | added | Steve-O | Not to contradict, but just to confirm: I'm assuming there are canon sources for most of the main cast's character ages somewhere. Have we confirmed they are indeed mostly under 40, or are we just guessing based on the apparent age of the actors? Maybe advances in medical technology / health-awareness culture have lead to people looking younger than they really are, in general, and Picard and Pulaski are simply the exceptions to that rule? (I'm not enough of a Trekkie to know the answer to this myself, which is why I'm asking if it has been confirmed or not) | |
| Jul 15, 2018 at 11:54 | comment | added | Valorum | Beverly Crusher is 40 in the first season | |
| Jul 15, 2018 at 11:34 | history | edited | TheLethalCarrot♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 15, 2018 at 11:33 | history | asked | einpoklum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |