Rewatching "The Most Toys"...
PNQ1: Why would Worf be promoted to Chief of Operations to replace Data?
It's a matter of training. Being COO requires science training that is on a completely different career track than tactical officers. I can understand either Data or Worf being transferred to Command to be first officer (take that, Eddington!), but being shunted into each others' jobs is just weird.
PNQ2: Why were Data and Kim called COO when they're really the Science Officer and O'Brien called COO when he's really the Engineering Officer?
I can sort of understand operations=engineering, but operations=science is just baffling.
Memory Alpha seems to treat "Operations" as a catchall for the goldshirt divisions-engineering, security, and tactical. This troubles me. So is the COO supposed to be an intermediate liason between the goldshirt senior officers and the first officer? What's the point?
PNQ3: Who else assumes that O'Brien was named Chief of Operations
just so people could still call him "chief"?
It's not like "chief" is his rank or anything--oh, wait!
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