Question for fellow TOS trekkies

[goldvermilion87]

Is there any indication in the original series of approximately how many people work in the science labs?  I know there are about 400 people on the ship as a whole, but that is the only number I can come up with.

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[kcscribbler]

432, to be exact, is the total crew complement of the original Enterprise. I get the impression that more people were added to the original NCC-1701 after its post-TMP refit, as well as to the Enterprise-A, simply because the ship would be more sophisticated. Picard's Enterprise (the Enterprise-D) had considerably more as it was the first of that class starship to include families.

If you divide the ship into its main Starfleet divisions: Command (gold), Operations (red), and Sciences (blue), with Medical as a division of Science and probably working closely with it (since McCoy is seen more than once in lab scrubs and refers to 'the labs' in the same way Spock does), then I'd say logically speaking less than a third of the crew. Operations is by necessity the largest division, since it would also encompass stuff like Maintenance and Engineering and Security. Command encompasses officer material and divisions like Tactical. Science I would think would be somewhere between the two as far as personnel number.

There are fourteen science labs aboard the TOS Enterprise, though, so I doubt that all of them are in use with many workers simultaneously; most likely some are for experimenting, some for medical, some for research, etc.

So in essence, probably between 100-150 for science? and more likely toward the 100 end?

Hope that helps at all!

[goldvermilion87.livejournal.com]

I'll buy that. I was thinking about a third of the crew...but a smaller third (I'm an English major, so saying that doesn't bother me at all. Hehe) I wasn't sure if ther ewas some place where they actually mentioned it.


It seems to me that there are a lot more people on the STXI Enterprise...but that's just an impression.