Star Trek

The way I'm acustomed to it being used is more like how Martak became Klingon high ruler, meaning he wasnt after the job in asny way.

From how I remember Torres, she wanted the job, but didnt want to try out for it becasuse she felt Janeway would never ackowlide her skills.

What I mean was O'Brien Could've said No or Yes.... B'Lanna I mean She could say no but it wasn't really a choice..... That's what i meant by Fosited

No No It's my Fault For not Having Explained what I said a little bit Better..... 

The Acadamy wasn't around for Tripp to go through and Scotty, as evidenced through the New Star Trek movie, was a natural born engineer light years ahead of his instructors. She was a compitent and talented engineer, but she was not the best. She was not even close.

Hiero Give us Some exxamples Of B'lanna's Inaptitude For engineering? Please?

Dunno actually! I have a hard time deciding between...well all the engineers. Scotty has to be my favorite, so no I wouldn't say B'Elanna is the BEST engineer. (close, though.)

I recall Scotty say at some point "Ha do not bother with the safety-protcols,... I wrote the manual."... Because what they were doing (dont recall what), they had to bypassed the safety margin that was in the manual.

Overall, I think Chief Obrien is the best engineer. Partly because he is a selfmade man! He did repair a communication-array during the Border-wars with the Cardies,... eventhough he at that time was not an engineer yet, but an infantry soldier.

So Obrien will get my vote.

ummm, you do realise that Maquis ships are just old fedaration ships right?