Ah, Jeez. Old chum, you're going fire me up on my usual sidebar about how many TOS people were veterans (Doohan!). I was reminded recently that Roddenberry was a Pan Am flight crewmember, was one of the crew on a crash in ... 1947? or something. Yeah, even "The Cage" pilot (or especially) had LOTS of naval and military grounding in it.
Wish I could remember which epi has Scotty tell Kirk "Special space detail set, Captain." Very quick, during the "tag" scene. Blink and you'll miss it. But s*** yeah, the NCC-1701 has crewmen manning stations and stuff when they break orbit, because ... they're breaking orbit (leaving port) and preparing for warp speed (hitting the open seas). Of course. (snap) And Jeffries knew his aviation stuff, so you had all that. I think the original bridge, as abstract as it was, reflected a knowledge of multiengine cockpit design. Flight control quadrant here, nav radios there, comms nearby, systems and components controls up there... I could easily map that original bridge on a typical midsize jet cockpit (well, before all the glass screens). Or an F16.
I was prejudiced to dislike it when it was on (I thought, "Oh great, STar Trek meets Lost In Space"), but when I started watching Voyager on Netflix, I noticed that Mulgrew's captain dealt with real world style leadership and command responsibility issues. Someone in that writers' room had some background.
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