Addendum to "Edits - Star Trek/NCIS"
Addendum to Fandoms in Trek AUs: NCIS.
Annotations that had to be removed from the main post since it already was so long.
Further notes
About the positions and assignments:
To assign position I tried to stay as closer to their roles in the tv show as I could. Unless a more specific one was available for the specific character, NCIS / FBI agents were made part of security, doctors and related to medical and so on. If not listed below, the choice was self-explanatory and was redundant.
- Leon
Off all the three directors NCIS has during the first 13th Seasons, Leon is the one who sat on the chair the longer and, consequently, the one who deserved the "boss" role more. He was also the one who couldn't be assigned any other role if assigned to the crew because of this reason.
- DiNozzo
He's been Gibbs's second since... well, ever, so the role of First Officer was mandatory. Besides, Gibbs considers him his second: there was no way I could make anyone else Gibbs's first officer.
You cannot give communications to someone else if Tony is in the mix: the guy is the master of talking. So, although he speaks only two languages (versus Ziva, for example), he cannot be anything else than the Communicator Officer. I had been tempted to remove this role, to give it to Nikki, but then... well, Memory Alpha states that in the 23rd century first officers "served as a department head first and the executive officer second": I can't imagine Tony spending his on-duty hours standing like an idiot because there's no first officer's station on a Constitution.
- Kate Todd
Given that, previously her NCIS job, she was assigned to the security of the Air Force One and the US President himself, who's better than her to be a Security Chief? Also, it was unclear which role in the hierarchy of the team she had - as far as I understood, she and Tony were at the same level, since there was no mention of "seniority" nor Gibbs treated her or Tony as one superior to the other - so I gave her the role of third officer to partially preserve that.
- Abby
Abby could fill many shoes. She's NCIS weapons expert, but her main specialty is science, so Chief Science Officer she is.
- Ziva
Ziva is... Ziva. She fits everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Languages, weapons, combat: everything a red shirt could do, she can do - and better than others. Well, besides driving, at least.
Back in 2016 she was in the hold because I didn't know which role give her until I found it fitting to be the second to Kate (whom she replaced in the series). But then I had the idea of revamp the whole edit and she initially ninja-kicked Tony out of his Chief Communication Officer chair on the bridge. But then eventually was moved to helm: she's a woman of action, I couldn't see her sitting at a station picking up frequencies all day, she would probably catch an allergy or die of boredom. Appreciate the decency I had to put her at the nav and not the helm station, leaving that to Borin.
Kidding. I couldn't resist it actually.
- Jenny Shepard
Poor Jenny. I wanted her as Admiral, but then where I could place Vance? With the Liaison Officer (aka, the boss) role already filled, I didn't know where to place her. In the old edit she was given the helmsman (quoting «guides everyone and this is the best I could find for her»), but now I made her the second to Morrow, and second in charge of the functioning of the ship which is likely the closest to a NCIS Director you could get, when the agency takes the form of a starship.
Also, second officer to partially give her back some authority (I couldn't make her First Officer in place of Tony, clearly).
To at least reflect that she's been in a position of power, I elected her as first helm.
- Ellie Bishop
We've been shown that she's best at tactical plans, logic and everything between and I wanted her on the bridge. I thought that the standing, additional tactical officer position - that standing station manned by a black actor in red shirt seen in the movies (see Froman) - was fitting.
- Fornell
What an FBI guy could do, on a starship? Security officer.
Sure, but what if you already have a better choice for a Security Chief and their Deputy? Initially I assigned him the armory, but when I revisited the edit came Zoe, so...
- Delilah
She's "just" an analyst but, in a show where most of the characters carry a gun and go on the field catching criminals, an analyst is as closer to a "computer geek" as they can go. However, the role of mainframe conduit was left open and I didn't really want to include yet another character, so Deliah, you've got promoted on the bridge!
- James Palmer and Gerald
Since he's a Medical Assistant to Ducky, I decided to make Palmer the Head Nurse instead of Doctor. Gerald, as he had less time to professionally grow, is a step lower as Nurse.
- Morrow
As he's the first NCIS director we're shown (and likely the one who reformed it from NIS), I thought he had to be assigned the closer role to the ship itself.
- Borin
Notes from the old edit: «Borin's a woman of action, a less grumpy Gibbs. Being the head of the Coast Guard Investigative Service and specialist about ships, I thought fitting for her to be the Chief Engineer.»
I still maintain that it was a perfect assignment, but now that she's been replaced by Morrow I couldn't demote her to engineer. Now all the team leaders are either helm or nav (see below).
- Hollis
She's army and unity commander: she deserved to be the head department, but I couldn't demote Kate. Sorry Hollis! Still, I made sure to reflect that Kate is the brain, and she doesn't get much on the field - that's Hollis's job.
- Cassidy and EJ
As team leaders, I put them at the helm/nav stations.
- Zoe
As agent for the "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)", she was the only one to replace my initial idea for the Weapons specialist on the crew, Fornell.
- Doctor Ryan
We don't need PsyOps on a Starfleet Ship, Samantha!
- Nikki
She's fluent in languages and she monitors communications. Duh.
- Cranston + Wolf
She basically begged for this position - or this position for her. Same for Dr. Wolf.
- Grady
I gave her the transporter chief position because of her character's introduction as polygraph specialist.
- Doctor Taft
Despite him being a "field doctor", which initially made me include him as senior doctor (Doctor M'Benga's position), I picked doctor Jordan so he was downgraded.
- Dorney
He's a probatory agent and he complains when he gets the evidence locker. I created the position for him when I replaced him as Yeoman.
- Carol
Well, we know Abby hates it when there's people in her lab. But she accepted Carol when time saw them working together and I wanted to include Carol, so...
- Lee
It's the closer "starship position" I could find to an agent canon-assigned to the legal department.
- Jordan
I decided to make her Ducky's second because she's a medical examiner like him and, when he was hurt, Ducky suggested to ask her to temporary replace him on a case (we don't see the scene, it's just Ducky saying it).
- Stan
I know he deserves more than "Captain's yeoman" but... was a very late, late addition to the crew, so before he didn't even made an appearance? Also, he laments that he was like an errandboy during his times with Gibbs. And Gibbs would love to have a yeoman as Stan.
- Hart
Her was the character I regretted more to not add but I really had no idea how to fit her on a starship. Then the final version of the revisited edit was ready, and I was missing a character. Of all the minor characters left out, she was the most blaring. But you don't need an attorney (or even a JAG officer) on a starship. Considering she spends most of her presence on the show reminding Gibbs of rules, I guessed she could be some kind of assistant to keep the very undiplomat Gibbs on check.
About the ranks:
While assigning ranks I tried to maintain some kind of reference to the "power hierarchy" of the tv show. For this reason, Jenny Shepard and Fornell are the only ones given a commander rank besides Di Nozzo (who gets the rank only because of his First Officer position). Morrow manages a captain because there's a canon precedent of a captain holding the chief engineer position (Scotty in Search for Spock), but I tried to compensate for Jenny by giving her the second officer role.
Lieutenant commander is for characters who lead a team/squad leader (Borin, Barrett, Cassidy) or other characters who weren't part of NCIS who held a high rank within their jobs (Doctor Ryan, Dr. Taft); Kate was given it for the position she was assigned to (chief security) but also because, during her time at NCIS, she was equal to Tony but I didn't/could give her a commander, while Ducky gets it despite not being a federal agent because... well, it's Ducky and he's also the CMO. Mann, as Army Lieutenant Colonel, should be a commander (which is the Navy equivalent), but I decided that having her with the same rank of Jenny and higher than her direct superior Kate would make little sense.
Bishop, as the last acquisition of the squad, is a lieutenant junior grade, while Dorneget is a step lower as ensign. Jeanne, Doctor Cranston, Wolf and Hampton, while not related to NCIS, are respectively an ensign and lieutenants because I felt that, as doctors, they would be better fitting as commissioned officers (Jeanne is a rank lower because at the start her seniority is unclear and she's preparing to give an exam); Carol, on the other side, is an external and I gave her a chief petty officer to reflect that.
I initially wanted to make Palmer, who isn't a federal agent, a non-commissioned officer, but I wasn't sure a CPO could be a head nurse so I made him ensign, but then changed my mind again, and he's now Master CPO - let's say he got promoted after a probationary time under Doctor Mallard. Gerald, his predecessor, is still stuck to chief petty officer.
Rest were given the "average" lieutenant to reflect their Agent status.
Hart is not part of Starfleet so she doesn't have any rank.
Annotations that had to be removed from the main post since it already was so long.
Further notes
About the positions and assignments:
To assign position I tried to stay as closer to their roles in the tv show as I could. Unless a more specific one was available for the specific character, NCIS / FBI agents were made part of security, doctors and related to medical and so on. If not listed below, the choice was self-explanatory and was redundant.
- Leon
Off all the three directors NCIS has during the first 13th Seasons, Leon is the one who sat on the chair the longer and, consequently, the one who deserved the "boss" role more. He was also the one who couldn't be assigned any other role if assigned to the crew because of this reason.
- DiNozzo
He's been Gibbs's second since... well, ever, so the role of First Officer was mandatory. Besides, Gibbs considers him his second: there was no way I could make anyone else Gibbs's first officer.
You cannot give communications to someone else if Tony is in the mix: the guy is the master of talking. So, although he speaks only two languages (versus Ziva, for example), he cannot be anything else than the Communicator Officer. I had been tempted to remove this role, to give it to Nikki, but then... well, Memory Alpha states that in the 23rd century first officers "served as a department head first and the executive officer second": I can't imagine Tony spending his on-duty hours standing like an idiot because there's no first officer's station on a Constitution.
- Kate Todd
Given that, previously her NCIS job, she was assigned to the security of the Air Force One and the US President himself, who's better than her to be a Security Chief? Also, it was unclear which role in the hierarchy of the team she had - as far as I understood, she and Tony were at the same level, since there was no mention of "seniority" nor Gibbs treated her or Tony as one superior to the other - so I gave her the role of third officer to partially preserve that.
- Abby
Abby could fill many shoes. She's NCIS weapons expert, but her main specialty is science, so Chief Science Officer she is.
- Ziva
Ziva is... Ziva. She fits everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Languages, weapons, combat: everything a red shirt could do, she can do - and better than others. Well, besides driving, at least.
Back in 2016 she was in the hold because I didn't know which role give her until I found it fitting to be the second to Kate (whom she replaced in the series). But then I had the idea of revamp the whole edit and she initially ninja-kicked Tony out of his Chief Communication Officer chair on the bridge. But then eventually was moved to helm: she's a woman of action, I couldn't see her sitting at a station picking up frequencies all day, she would probably catch an allergy or die of boredom. Appreciate the decency I had to put her at the nav and not the helm station, leaving that to Borin.
Kidding. I couldn't resist it actually.
- Jenny Shepard
Poor Jenny. I wanted her as Admiral, but then where I could place Vance? With the Liaison Officer (aka, the boss) role already filled, I didn't know where to place her. In the old edit she was given the helmsman (quoting «guides everyone and this is the best I could find for her»), but now I made her the second to Morrow, and second in charge of the functioning of the ship which is likely the closest to a NCIS Director you could get, when the agency takes the form of a starship.
Also, second officer to partially give her back some authority (I couldn't make her First Officer in place of Tony, clearly).
To at least reflect that she's been in a position of power, I elected her as first helm.
- Ellie Bishop
We've been shown that she's best at tactical plans, logic and everything between and I wanted her on the bridge. I thought that the standing, additional tactical officer position - that standing station manned by a black actor in red shirt seen in the movies (see Froman) - was fitting.
- Fornell
What an FBI guy could do, on a starship? Security officer.
Sure, but what if you already have a better choice for a Security Chief and their Deputy? Initially I assigned him the armory, but when I revisited the edit came Zoe, so...
- Delilah
She's "just" an analyst but, in a show where most of the characters carry a gun and go on the field catching criminals, an analyst is as closer to a "computer geek" as they can go. However, the role of mainframe conduit was left open and I didn't really want to include yet another character, so Deliah, you've got promoted on the bridge!
- James Palmer and Gerald
Since he's a Medical Assistant to Ducky, I decided to make Palmer the Head Nurse instead of Doctor. Gerald, as he had less time to professionally grow, is a step lower as Nurse.
- Morrow
As he's the first NCIS director we're shown (and likely the one who reformed it from NIS), I thought he had to be assigned the closer role to the ship itself.
- Borin
Notes from the old edit: «Borin's a woman of action, a less grumpy Gibbs. Being the head of the Coast Guard Investigative Service and specialist about ships, I thought fitting for her to be the Chief Engineer.»
I still maintain that it was a perfect assignment, but now that she's been replaced by Morrow I couldn't demote her to engineer. Now all the team leaders are either helm or nav (see below).
- Hollis
She's army and unity commander: she deserved to be the head department, but I couldn't demote Kate. Sorry Hollis! Still, I made sure to reflect that Kate is the brain, and she doesn't get much on the field - that's Hollis's job.
- Cassidy and EJ
As team leaders, I put them at the helm/nav stations.
- Zoe
As agent for the "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)", she was the only one to replace my initial idea for the Weapons specialist on the crew, Fornell.
- Doctor Ryan
We don't need PsyOps on a Starfleet Ship, Samantha!
- Nikki
She's fluent in languages and she monitors communications. Duh.
- Cranston + Wolf
She basically begged for this position - or this position for her. Same for Dr. Wolf.
- Grady
I gave her the transporter chief position because of her character's introduction as polygraph specialist.
- Doctor Taft
Despite him being a "field doctor", which initially made me include him as senior doctor (Doctor M'Benga's position), I picked doctor Jordan so he was downgraded.
- Dorney
He's a probatory agent and he complains when he gets the evidence locker. I created the position for him when I replaced him as Yeoman.
- Carol
Well, we know Abby hates it when there's people in her lab. But she accepted Carol when time saw them working together and I wanted to include Carol, so...
- Lee
It's the closer "starship position" I could find to an agent canon-assigned to the legal department.
- Jordan
I decided to make her Ducky's second because she's a medical examiner like him and, when he was hurt, Ducky suggested to ask her to temporary replace him on a case (we don't see the scene, it's just Ducky saying it).
- Stan
I know he deserves more than "Captain's yeoman" but... was a very late, late addition to the crew, so before he didn't even made an appearance? Also, he laments that he was like an errandboy during his times with Gibbs. And Gibbs would love to have a yeoman as Stan.
- Hart
Her was the character I regretted more to not add but I really had no idea how to fit her on a starship. Then the final version of the revisited edit was ready, and I was missing a character. Of all the minor characters left out, she was the most blaring. But you don't need an attorney (or even a JAG officer) on a starship. Considering she spends most of her presence on the show reminding Gibbs of rules, I guessed she could be some kind of assistant to keep the very undiplomat Gibbs on check.
About the ranks:
While assigning ranks I tried to maintain some kind of reference to the "power hierarchy" of the tv show. For this reason, Jenny Shepard and Fornell are the only ones given a commander rank besides Di Nozzo (who gets the rank only because of his First Officer position). Morrow manages a captain because there's a canon precedent of a captain holding the chief engineer position (Scotty in Search for Spock), but I tried to compensate for Jenny by giving her the second officer role.
Lieutenant commander is for characters who lead a team/squad leader (Borin, Barrett, Cassidy) or other characters who weren't part of NCIS who held a high rank within their jobs (Doctor Ryan, Dr. Taft); Kate was given it for the position she was assigned to (chief security) but also because, during her time at NCIS, she was equal to Tony but I didn't/could give her a commander, while Ducky gets it despite not being a federal agent because... well, it's Ducky and he's also the CMO. Mann, as Army Lieutenant Colonel, should be a commander (which is the Navy equivalent), but I decided that having her with the same rank of Jenny and higher than her direct superior Kate would make little sense.
Bishop, as the last acquisition of the squad, is a lieutenant junior grade, while Dorneget is a step lower as ensign. Jeanne, Doctor Cranston, Wolf and Hampton, while not related to NCIS, are respectively an ensign and lieutenants because I felt that, as doctors, they would be better fitting as commissioned officers (Jeanne is a rank lower because at the start her seniority is unclear and she's preparing to give an exam); Carol, on the other side, is an external and I gave her a chief petty officer to reflect that.
I initially wanted to make Palmer, who isn't a federal agent, a non-commissioned officer, but I wasn't sure a CPO could be a head nurse so I made him ensign, but then changed my mind again, and he's now Master CPO - let's say he got promoted after a probationary time under Doctor Mallard. Gerald, his predecessor, is still stuck to chief petty officer.
Rest were given the "average" lieutenant to reflect their Agent status.
Hart is not part of Starfleet so she doesn't have any rank.