: Posted by Larry Garfield in Players' Handbook Discussion
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: - CNS is not a DH position, because CNS does not have a staff. There are only four DH positions: CE, CMO, CSO, COS. CNS is a Swing position, albeit a common one.

Isn't a 'Swing' position defined as a Department Head who serves in their department alone? Which goes back to the days of the 'dash' positions. In STF we don't have JOs in these departments, but I'm pretty sure that that the larger ships of the Star Trek universe would have had a junior counselor.
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: - Chief of Operations is not a Swing position. It is an alternate label for CE for Starbases.

There are two types of Chief of Operations in my eyes. The first is what you have mentioned above. The second however is a swing position, much like the role of Harry Kim and Data, who both had the title 'Cheif of Operations'. There are people who say that this was the missing CSO position of some trek series. But if that were so I would think that the producers would most likely have the COO in Science teal, rather than security/engineering/operations gold. The COO is the chief Ops officer. Captains who ask their CSO to run the scans on the immediate area are going against the cannon precedent of this being done by an Ops officer. ;)
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: - "Fleet Commander. Each of our six fleets has a commander, a member of the government cabinet who sees to out of character administration of the fleets, including assisting the president in choosing new CO’s and ensuring that each ship is healthy, has a Gamemaster and is responsible for discipline should it reach beyond the ship command level" That sentence produces a parse error in my brain. I can't even follow it. I am not sure that the rest of the FComm entry makes sense, either. Ranks and seniority and Fleet Captains and wha?

I agree. I can't follow that sentence either.
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: - You no longer need to contact your CO to edit your character stats and bio. That bug was fixed 2 months ago. (If it wasn't, someone tell me because I have more work to do. :-( )

No, you did fix it :)
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: - The computer "speaking" should be denoted with << and >> for quotation marks, not with the comm badge. There's also 2 forms of comm badge in use, =/\= and =^=. Neither is an "ASCII shortcut". An ASCII shortcut is a series of numeric commands you enter on a keypad to generate a character with that ASCII character code. That is not what you are doing here.

/me takes note of this
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: - There is no "sub-cabinet". I have never heard that term, nor "government at large". Cabinet refers to FComms and to the Directors of Executive Departments, plus the VP. "Command" refers to all members of the Cabinet, plus their immediate successor, plus the President, plus any Executive Assistants.

'GO' refers to Executive Assistants as 'governmental "at large" officer(s)'.
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: --Nitpicker Larry Garfield

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