10-12-2016, 11:10 AM | #1 |
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Star Trek Constitution Class Crew
I invoke the forum to reality check me here. I'm wanting to suss out the crew of a typical Constitution Class heavy cruiser (i.e. TOS era Enterprise). Here is what I have so far:
EDITS and UPDATES: The crew complement has been updated.
(CMD) Command: 72 – from 1 in 6 seeming reasonable (ENG) Engineering: 117 – from half of what is left over after assigning CMD, SEC, ACD, CNS, MED (OPR) Operators: 117 – from half of what is left over after assigning CMD, SEC, ACD, CNS, MED (SEC) Security: 40 – from Starfleet Museum example of 340 total: 280 crew, 60 scientists or marine (ACD) Academics: 40 – from Starfleet Museum example of 340 total: 280 crew, 60 scientists or marine (CNS) Counseling: 22 – same as MED (MED) Medical: 22 – from 1/20 : physicians/patients at TL6 (B425) The Starfleet Museum is my campaign's canon source for Ship maps, so I'm happy to use their values as a basis for assigning scientist (my Academics Dept.) and marines (Security Dept.). I chose TL6 to determine the number of physicians because that is the tech level the physicians would operate at if they didn't have use of their high tech equipment. In any case, let me know if I'm unequivocally way off on any of these. If you believe they could be possible, but only based on certain campaign assumptions, feel free to question me to make sure I'm operating under correct campaign assumptions.
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10-12-2016, 11:18 AM | #2 |
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Re: Star Trek Constitution Class Crew
I don't understand what the 117 "Operators" that aren't assigned to a Department do. I also don't understand why Starfleet would assign medical personnel based on them operating without equipment (and why they would crosstrain them at TL6 for that event anyway, rather than just use Physician/TL11 at -5 for improvised equipment).
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10-12-2016, 11:35 AM | #3 | |
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Going with 1/50 physician/patient ratio of TL9 (campaigns medical tech level) just seemed like too few. I used TL6 simply as a safety margin. I should add that medical research is handled by the Medical Dept., not the Academics Dept., in my campaign. (From B425: …a TL6+ physician performs as though he were TL6 if he has to make do without the gadgetry to which he is accustomed…")
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10-12-2016, 11:44 AM | #5 |
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B425 puts TL11 physicians at 100 patients per, or about 5 total -- which isn't a bad match for the number of medical personnel we saw in TOS.
If they didn't have equipment, then the TL6 ratio of 20:1 would applym but that doesn't seem like the basis for normal staffing. I can imagine a risk-taking organization having redundant medics, just in case of poor facilities, unforeseen disasters, or just to have for all those calls to cure plagues on colony worlds with more than 430 inhabitants. So you might have more than the four or five minimum. Also, some of the "academics" might be biomedical researchers with the equivalent of MDs that could be pressed into service for emergencies. |
10-12-2016, 11:53 AM | #6 |
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Note that there are only 30 non-ensign officers aboard (SFTM, plus several Paramount approved sources). The other 400 are ensigns and/or enlisted.
72 command personnel — ship drivers and Gunnery Officers, essentially — is unreasonably high. USN & USCG, they're under 1/10. |
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Which personnel should be tripled? I'm not understanding because if they're all tripled, the relative numbers in each department won't change.
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10-12-2016, 02:44 PM | #9 |
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You have 430 personnel comprising three teams of 143. If each team needs, at TL9, 1 physician per 50, that's three doctors per shift (or more likely a doctor, a nurse, and a medic) and therefore you need nine total minimum. You can easily justify doubling this for training and redundancy, and get 18, which is pretty close to your 22 without mucking about with virtual TLs...
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10-12-2016, 02:48 PM | #10 | |
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At the heart of all this is figuring out what fraction of the crew are engaged in simply running the ship: command, engineers, operators, security; and what fraction are doing research-esque things: academics, counseling, medical. Crew Compliment: 430 – from Memory Alpha Command: 43 – from U.S. navy < 1/10, see post 6 Engineering: 132 – from half of what is left over after assigning CMD, SEC, ACD, CNS, MED Operators: 132 – from half of what is left over after assigning CMD, SEC, ACD, CNS, MED Security: 40 – from Starfleet Museum example of 340 total: 280 crew, 60 scientists or marine Academics: 40 – from Starfleet Museum example of 340 total: 280 crew, 60 scientists or marine Counseling: 22 – same as MED Medical: 22 – from 1/20 : physicians/patients at TL6 (B425) or twice TL9 minimums + 4 (post 9)
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