Chain of Command...

[Owen J. North 0]

Okay so, while watching a DS9 episode, an interesting question about chain of command came up in my mind.

 

According to normal chain of command procedure, I understand that officers in any given department report to their chief, who reports to command, and vice versa... but let's say a member of another department sees something that requires the immediate attention of another department?

 

Ex. AENG comes across a fight breaking out, and needs to notify security.

 

Would he then have to report it to his own department head, and go through all the normal chanels (i.e. AENG to CENG to XO/CO, to CSEC, to ASEC?) or would is there some kind of exception made in the case of an emergency, allowing the AENG to directly contact security?

Edited May 26, 2009 by Owen J. North

[Jorahl 0]

Okay so, while watching a DS9 episode, an interesting question about chain of command came up in my mind.

 

According to normal chain of command procedure, I understand that officers in any given department report to their chief, who reports to command, and vice versa... but let's say a member of another department sees something that requires the immediate attention of another department?

 

Ex. AENG comes across a fight breaking out, and needs to notify security.

 

Would he then have to report it to his own department head, and go through all the normal chanels (i.e. AENG to CENG to XO/CO, to CSEC, to ASEC?) or would is there some kind of exception made in the case of an emergency, allowing the AENG to directly contact security?

 

With your example, yeah... the junior officer would just call security.

 

Say the assistant Engineer noticed the anti-matter injectors doing something odd. He would notify his chief unless he saw that it was something extreme. Basically, if he saw something and made the judgment call to take the whole warp drive off line right then and there without asking his chief... it had better have been an emergency. If it was he gets a medal. If it wasn't, he gets transferred to waste management.

[Kairi 0]

If it wasn't, he gets transferred to waste management.

 

We could always use another CJAN. :(

[Owen J. North 0]

Meh... everything's an opportunity. If you can find a way to RP a Janitor and keep things interesting, that's a true show of skills right there, lol.

[V'Roy 0]

There was one sim where I played a character, the ghost of that character when he died, and a blob of goo that oosed out from the first dead character. If I recall, the blob of goo ended up saving the AT.

[Aliana Lucindak 0]

o.o

 

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