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   From: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net   
      
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    "GeneK"  wrote:   
      
   > "Wickeddoll"  wrote...   
   > > Who's saying they are?!  We're just correcting your assertion that   
   > > counselors do not have a military chain-of-command.  That's all.   
   >   
   > "Ship's counselor" would be an assignment, not a rank.  It's unlikely   
   > that the assignment of ship's counselor comes with any specific   
   > authority beyond being able to refer someone to the CMO for evaluation   
   > based on possible psychological issues.  But the person who has that   
   > assignment also holds a rank (in Troi's case, IIRC, she started TNG as a   
   > Lt. and somewhere along the way got a promotion to Lt. Cmdr), and if on   
   > top of that the ship's CO is fool enough to consider the ship's   
   > counselor qualified to stand a watch on the bridge just because she   
   > passed some damned holodeck test...   
   >   
   > GeneK   
      
   Then he shouldn't be surprised when she flies the ship into the nearest   
   planet.   
      
   Twice.   
      
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