Wow! If I had a nickel for every time a Trek show had a blind engineer, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?

teft · edit-2 10 months ago

Wow! If I had a nickel for every time a Trek show had a blind engineer, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?

Bonehead · 10 months ago

He eventually became chief engineer when Burnham was made captain. He started out just as a regular crew member. None of the main cast were in special positions at the beginning. That was one of the main complaints, because we never learn much about the bridge officers.

@Stamets@startrek.website · edit-2 10 months ago

He never became Chief Engineer because Stamets was never an Engineering Officer. He’s in Science Division. The link is just flat out wrong. I suspect they might be using ‘chief’ engineer to mean that he’s the engineer we see the most of in Season 1. Also that link hasn’t been updated since Season 1.

@XaeroDegreaz@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

@Stamets@startrek.website · edit-2 10 months ago

And what season is that from? I’m guessing Season 1 because Paul is not the Chief Engineer. It has been openly said that he’s not the chief engineer. So clearly plans changed somewhere between season 1 and 2. It doesn’t even make any sense for him to be chief engineer in the first place. He is an astromycologist.

Edit: It was a production mistake. He isn’t Chief Engineer.

A graphic seen in “Choose Your Pain” referred to Stamets as the chief engineer, but Ted Sullivan discarded this as a production mistake, quipping, “I’d say he’s the chief engineer of spore drive but not of engineering.”

Ted is a producer of the show.