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It's basically the Stargazer bridge which is more reason to just use the Stargazer.

The Shenzhou's main problem is it's upside down.

On Seven's rank do we know how long it's been since season two? Pulling a Kurk or Riker and getting to Commander in about five years isn't unheard of. There's even Captains with less time in Starfleet than Voyager season six Harry Kim.

Rikers was a commander though.

She was never even an ensign. She would have to pull a Tilly Riker double.

If it's been a few years since season two it wouldn't be unheard of that she's gone from ensign to commander in that time. That or Fenris has joined the Federation and she got in as part of absorbing the Fenrisian Rangers. That was one of the hurdles with Bajor joining the Federation, integrating the Bajoran Militia into Starfleet.

US military has doctors as commissioned officers but the rank they join at after their training varies based on their medical experience, we also have some of the higher positions in law enforcement coming from outside (Ireland included).

As with medicine, the same could be said to apply for other fields in starfleet. Seven could have raked up a load of doctorates or maybe without and done the same.

They wouldn't have had to even incorporate the Fenrisian Rangers for her to join and be granted that rank.

It really bothered me that the used the supernova as an excuse to turn the Romulans into a bunch of space nomads overnight. The Romulan empire would be in disarray for sure, but the leadership should have survived(given the fact that the Romulans had enough time to go ask Spock for help), and presumably the Romulan empire includes multiple star systems, they’d be a pretty stupid race to not have a backup location.

I always thought a story about Picard as an admiral leading the aid efforts to the Romulan Empire after the supernova(kind of like how it showed him doing) , before being swept in to a conspiracy about the actual cause of the event and what it would mean for the galaxy would be a good one.

It would keep the series based in Starfleet while giving us a series centered on the last great adversary of the galaxy. Picard never had any tolerance for institutionalised secrets anyway so you would imagine he’d be determined to get to the truth regardless of who it affected.

But I suppose then that would have limited the opportunity for Brent Spiner to come back as yet another Noonien Soong🙄

The Romulan situation annoys me too but there might be another factor to it. Shinzon killed the entire government a few years earlier leaving no real successor, and the Romulan Star Empire doesn't seem like the most stable nation at the best of times, so they could have been fractured or barely holding together before the lost their home system to the supernova.

This doesn't excuse the warrior space nuns, absolute candor, real fake doors, throuple marriages, and all the other definitely-canon-but-not-depicted-on-screen-for-some-reason fanfiction the original showrunner published.

I was thinking the same about Shinzon.

Trek has always had an annoying problem too where when it suits the writers the Klingon Empire (Praxis), the Romulans or the Federation are suddenly boiled down to 1 planet.

But when the Praetor dies after he's killed all the Senators, probably some senior Tal'Shiar and admirals who takes over with no clear successor? It's kind of a recipe for civil war that probably would be interesting to see unfold, if given to someone competent.

I never got around to STO and since I got a little too into Neverwinter for a few months I don't do MMOs.

Would take you a long time to visit all those ships and that station.