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Whereas Voyager has most of my most favorite episodes, esp wrt Ensign Kim, DS9's characters are legend, esp Quark.

To a T, every soon-to-be Ensign said it was the money, to murmurs of agreement from the crowd of 1000.

We don't want stories about how some medical issue could be fixed but Ensign Bob can't afford to pay for it.

The Ensign Peak portfolio alone is over $50 billion and they vote in board meetings.

You wouldn't go blackmailing someone because he didn't read the Ensign every month which is something a Mormon probably wouldn't really bother telling anyone.

They flew a Japanese ensign, wore sarongs and wore tan makeup.

TOS era tricorders had a small TV in them and big chunky buttons you could see poor Ensign Ricky fiddling with before falling into the lava pit.

When my great grandfather was drafted in WWI from the chemistry department at Berkeley to Annapolis, they put him on a ship as an ensign doing targeting.

Does the admiral of any fleet, or even the captain of any ship, contact every ensign under their charge personally and tell them to go hit the chow line?

I already do this but in pirate channels showing re-runs of Star Trek and purely for the lulz, because it's comedy gold whenever 1st officer Beard hits on an ensign or Cmdr Vreenek declares it's a faaaake.

Definitely plays well with the kind of scenarios the writers throw at them - you can pretty much expect any Starfleet officer, whether a commander or an ensign, to operate any system on the ship with at least some passing competence.

The ship's replicators start spitting out PacMan ghosts which quickly overrun the passageways ala Tribbles, in the end it turns out Ensign Crusher attempted to pipe his holodeck game to PRN and the Ship's computer mistook that as a command to begin (3d) printing.

This is discussed in the excellent book "Life on a Little Known Planet" by Howard Ensign Evans [1].

[1] "Life on a Little Known Planet: A Biologist's View of Insects and Their World" by parasitic wasp expert Howard Ensign Evans.

Also, given the possible context of wartime, the most basic "make the ship go" controls absolutely need to be understandable and usable by a concussed one-armed half-blind ensign who just got on board yesterday...

From the same article: > Ensign Connan Ingham said that no non-disclosure agreements had been signed but that some local agency officials "have been asked by the owner not to talk about it." Which is it?

> Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake, Ensign?