Yea I'm gonna go see about that proceedure Shax went through. I mean they didn't even have the body for Q's sake. Wha'd they use to revive him complete with memories?
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Because I'm only human and certain things shouldn't just be brushed aside, but healthily dealt with.
See Jean-Luc Picard considering leaving Starfleet after the Borg invasion, or Ben Sisko taking an extended leave after Jadzia's death. This is an issue that any writer's room worth their salt would have to deal with. Having to send Jack Crusher to his death clearly had an impact on Jean-Luc Picard. One can surmise that he took the "move forward and not deal with it approach" with Jack, given that he cut off contact with the Crusher family after returning his friend's body to them.
The Black Mountain and the Koala will provide.
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Possibly the first good friend who the captain has ordered to certain death, though.
Anybody who's watched any amount of movies or television knows that the moment that someone says that they're "two weeks away from retirement", that they're 13 days away from death.
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Cap: Admiralson? What are you doing here?
Admiraldson: The Chief, she knocked me out sir!
Cap: Dammit, Chief!
Doc: She's dead, Cap! No one could survive!
Mr. Sec: Odd reading in the plasma shaft, Cap.
Cap: What?
Mr. Sec: It's the Chief! She survived!!!!
Chief (over comms): You can't kill a tough ol' bird like me that easily!
Admiralson: But how? No one can survive venting plasma in the main shaft!
Chief: I recalled the tech and I teched the tech. A long shot, but it worked.
Cap: Good thing. Or you'd be one deep fried bird
All laugh.
And scene
Admiraldson: The Chief, she knocked me out sir!
Cap: Dammit, Chief!
Doc: She's dead, Cap! No one could survive!
Mr. Sec: Odd reading in the plasma shaft, Cap.
Cap: What?
Mr. Sec: It's the Chief! She survived!!!!
Chief (over comms): You can't kill a tough ol' bird like me that easily!
Admiralson: But how? No one can survive venting plasma in the main shaft!
Chief: I recalled the tech and I teched the tech. A long shot, but it worked.
Cap: Good thing. Or you'd be one deep fried bird
All laugh.
And scene
That's why there's all sorts of superstitions about not counting down the days...
Surely Thine Own Self taught us that, friend or not, it is the chief engineer’s job to go?
You can look at it both ways. Who has the best chance of succeeding the first time, or who would have a better chance of succeeding if the other (plan A) fails?
Maybe that is in fact what happens, and the chief engineer dies anyways on the way back home. But in-universe, I don’t know that. Based upon the limited information I have here, I cannot let the fact that the chief engineer's replacement is related to someone in the admiralty be a factor to not choose the admiral's son.
Based on the information i have, it's a dispassionate decision.
It taught us that bridge officers are expected to make difficult decisions that may cost lives.
We don’t know if she would have answered the same if Data was there in the simulation as an alternative option to Geordi instead of Worf.
I'd say the Chief Engineer goes, for 3 reasons:
1) It's his responsibility as Chief Engineer, more so than that of the newly assigned engineer (bit of the 'captain goes down with the ship' principle)
2) He probably has better odds of completing the mission (he should know the ship better)
3) The newly assigned engineer probably is significantly younger, so has more years of life left in him.
The fact that he's an Admiral's son shouldn't enter the equation. A good Admiral would know and accept this is one of those things that happens in the line of duty.
1) It's his responsibility as Chief Engineer, more so than that of the newly assigned engineer (bit of the 'captain goes down with the ship' principle)
2) He probably has better odds of completing the mission (he should know the ship better)
3) The newly assigned engineer probably is significantly younger, so has more years of life left in him.
The fact that he's an Admiral's son shouldn't enter the equation. A good Admiral would know and accept this is one of those things that happens in the line of duty.
