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Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: "A Ship of Fools"???????????
Message-ID: <1278@unm-cvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Sep-84 12:56:39 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 22 12:56:39 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 05:53:49 EDT
Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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>Subject: Re: Ships complement (ie. Blueprints) - (nf)
>From: elb@hou5e.UUCP
>Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
>Date: Fri, 29-Jun-84 07:14:17 MDT

>I'm a little surprise that there are 93 engineering specialists
>and only 74 science technicians.  Isn't the mission of the enterprise
>such as to require significant numbers of scientists?? and only 4
>lead scienctists (I forget what they were labeled) ?

>Am I the only one who thinks this is strange?

>Ellen Bart
 

     I don't think Ellen is the only one who thinks it's strange, that is if
they did not understand logistics very well!  There would be no scientific
mission if the ship did not function right.  Usually, the supply & support
needs (logistics) are larger than those of the mission.  The ratio is more like
426 for support to 4 lead scientist and these 4 are, they have to be, the tops
in their fields.  If another scientist was added, the ship used would have to be
larger than it is now and that design may have been unfeasible.  On the other
hand, a special case might warrant adding one or more other scientist.  eg., an
all vulcan crew could have five or six scientist without effecting the ship's
efficiency, however an all tellarite crew could only have two or three scientist
on board without causing problems.




                                  Chris Wayne @ UNM