I really hope me posting the memes the past couple days hasn’t been a problem. I don’t want to spam. I just have over a thousand images saved on my phone. Combine that with the fact that I’ve been having a rough couple weeks and just looking to make others laugh so I can make myself smile.
Hope you all have a great day either way. Peace and long life. 🖖
It does blow my mind that we’ve NEVER seen main engineering in Discovery. Or anything from engineering really. Stamets lab is “Engineering Test Bay Alpha” but that’s as close as we’ve gotten. I mean Stamets isn’t even an engineer, he’s in science division, yet they have him doing engineering more than anyone else.
I love my little overworked gayboy. He’s my spirit animal.
I mean technically he kind of is their engine after a point.
Oh when it comes to the Spore Drive, absolutely. But anytime that major engineering problems crop up he’s still usually the one asked to deal with it somehow. Yet we know that there’s a chief engineer on board. Reno has a line in season 2 where she comes in saying that ‘The Chief’ sent her to check something out. That’s also where he line comes from about how she doesn’t know why that lab is considered propulsion. Also the ‘pick mushrooms off my pizza’ bits. I may have seen Discovery too much recently.
So we’ve got Commander Jett Reno in Engineering who works under a CEO. We’ve at least met the CMO on Discovery. She doesn’t get a whole lot of screentime but she exists. I really wanna know who the engineer was on Discovery throughout all the shit of the last 4 seasons and I really want that Engineer to show up on the Bridge in Season 5 just bitching. Having a whole monologue about how they’ve had to deal with tons of shit from the past and how no one has checked in on them. Burnham then with a look on her face like “Fuck. Shit. Fuck shit fuck.” Saru standing in the corner equally as embarrassed.
Edit: Thinking about it… Chief Engineer is the only Chief we’ve know nothing about.
Chief Medical Officer - Tracy Pollard not Hugh Culber. Memory Alpha is inaccurate on this front. Not sure why but they’ve labeled her as head nurse and Hugh as CMO. In Season 1 she’s the one giving orders to Hugh and everyone else. I’m also 90% sure there’s a line about Hugh saying she’s his boss. In Season 2 she’s also the one to allow Saru and Culber to return to active duty. Culber was also going to transfer to Enterprise, and was allowed, at the end of Discovery Season 2. No chance in hell that the CMO is just going to bounce around with no problem.
Chief Science Officer - Numerous. We’ve seen a few people hold this role over the show. Both Saru and Burnham have held this role throughout the show. I think Tilly may have as well during Season 4 before going to Starfleet Academy but I’m not entirely sure on that front.
Chief Security Officer - Numerous. Started with Landry before being handed over to Tyler. Season 2 didn’t really have an obvious one around but Na’an stepped in to fill the role over all until she departed. At the moment we don’t know who fills that role. Maybe Rhys considering he’s the tactical officer but who knows.
Chief Engineering Officer - We have only ever seen two references to a Chief Engineer on Discovery and one was a joke. There’s the one I mentioned before with Reno but there’s also a joke in Season 1. When they first land in the Mirror Universe, Lorca is about to answer the hail before Burnham stops him saying that he’s not the captain. Tilly takes over and hands it over to her ‘chief Engineer’. Lorca then starts speaking with a fake Scottish accent.
Chief engineer shows up on the bridge: it’s Pelia, somehow.
I am genuinely kind of hoping for this. I haven’t seen all of Season 2 of SNW yet (I’m watching it with a friend who’s slow as fuck, we only just finished episode 2) so I’ve got no idea what’s happening with her. But in the first 30 seconds of meeting her I fell in love. Finding out she’s apparently effectively immortal? Please please please please. She’s too hysterical. I want more of her.
I mean, different shows focus on different officers, besides captain no position is truly sacred. As important as Spock was, the TNG crew didn’t highlight their Chief Science Officer.
Data was their chief science officer, which is basically cheating.
You’re not wrong in practice, but on paper Data worked Ops.
Everyone on the Enterprise D was a freaking scientist, they all appeared to know everything
Oh absolutely. I am not saying that as a complaint for the record. It’s more of a ‘Huh. That’s interesting’ sort of comment. I knew we never talked about the CEO on Discovery but I hadn’t quite picked out that they’re the ONLY Chief officer we know nothing about.
Laughs in Bev Crusher.
To be fair she was at least transferred to Starfleet Medical in a peaceful-ish time. Culber is being yeeted into death, yoinked from it, bitch slapped with 84 varieties of PTSD and is now considering transferring while the galaxy is on the precipice of being hatefucked into extinction by a robot with a hentai addiction.