Loving all this info. I'll do as Eol did and type up a quick list of some NPCs in the flight control department. In the meantime, I'll try to keep up with the rapid-fire posting! This is probably one of the most productive, most fun, most committed games I've ever been a part of! It seems like years since Olan opened up an "interest-check" in the recruitment threads, saying that he wasn't sure if he had the time but wanted to see if there was interest. Well, we've come a long way and *sniff, sniff* I'm proud of you all!

Anyways, I'm really enjoying playing, and shocked at the commitment everyone's made to both game and character, everyone is so well-developed, interesting and supportive.

I guess that kind of turned into a bit of an inspirational speech. Well, just a couple thoughts from one player to the others, over to you coach.

-Dragonblood

It's not "canon" per se but the chatter and concept art for Star Trek Online is kind of hinting that "Cetacean Ops" might be located on Deck 7 of a Galaxy class. *shrugs* I reckon, though, what with ships being modular as they are, the Discovery's dolphin exchange could be most anywhere we see fit to put it, aye?

Check this link for some pretty cool concept art for the dolphin tank from Star Trek Online. Image 19 on the page.

Ohhh... pretty... do they like rock n' roll music? Should we find out?

Hmmm... having a fun image in my head of Callie sitting in the dolphin lounge playing her guitar to the dolphins... awww...

God I need to go to sleep.

Working on post in response to Mac coming up (down?) to the forward torpedo bay. Maybe up tomorrow... I'm too twitchy to finish it right now.

Asylum indeed!

M.

Dolphins? 0.0 I wanna see them!

lol...

Anyways, waiting for Dad to approve my next post

Ok Trekkie questions.

How long does it take to complete Star Fleet Academy?

Can a cadet change from command to operations?

Starfleet Academy is a four year program and is typically attended after college.

Also, cadets aren't assigned to a particular department (Command, Operations, Tactical, Science, etc), rather they are required to study all areas and, upon graduation, are typically assigned to a department in which they excelled on their first tour. So, technically, no a cadet can't switch from command to ops because they're not really in a particular dept to begin with. Can a person change career fields from Command to Ops while in service? Yes but it typically takes intervention of some sort from a superior.

I'd have thought whales, rather than dolphins. Humpbacks to be precise, just in case that probe shows up again...

...there are whales.

On pp. 44-45 of the ST:TNG Technical Manual, it is stated that guidance and navigation research is conducted by a cetacean crew of twelve Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus gilli), overseen by two Takaya's Whales (Orcinus orca takayai).

Don't tell Bob about the dolphins or whales. He'll be there trying to free them from captivity - dude!

...they're totally like crewmembers, dude. Shyaaaaaaaaa!

If they can't mambo with me on the Leto deck, they ain't free dude.Transparent aluminum walls are still a cage, you don't need to be a sage, and it fill me with rage dude.

Taking a step back...

Deck 7 sounds good to me.

See what playing Trek does to me!

Don't know what 'rank' they'd have, but I added a cetacean and a dolphin npc, as well as a cetacean 'linguist' to the science department

Oh, and Al, feel free to use Aqua or Merrows in a post, if you want to; I won't mind

...cool! Lt Flipper!

Not sure if the cetaceans actually get ranks or not... can't find it referenced anywhere, to be honest, just says that they're "crew"... Even if they don't get rank "officially", though, I don't suppose there's anything that says they can't get names like Lt Aqua, Petty Officer Sponge Bob, etc.