[Mikester92]

UFP Poll
#22 I138

As we've seen throughout the Star Trek franchise, there are dozens of branches and agencies within Starfleet. Hypothetically, if you lived in the Star Trek universe, during the 2370s, what career path would you choose? Feel free to vote in the poll above and leave a comment below! Happy voting!

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[Grimm]

Command without a doubt, the idea of one day commanding my own starship is exhilarating. That is once I work my butt off for many many years.

[Dodgers]

Engineering as I love building and dismantling things, also without Engineers Starfleet wouldn't get very far.

[Torzan Dekar]

Saving people's lives with the most high tech equipment, the medical career is quite attractive.

[U.S.S. Hyperion]

Command of course, since I want to be in the middle seat of the U.S.S. Hyperion as soon as possible.

[Lycos]

I went with Security, always have had fascination with Law Enforcement as this would be the closest career path to such, plus someone would have to watch you red shirt guys backs!

[Alex L.]

If we were in starfleet, we'd probably had to chose from one of three branches; Sciences (including medical), Security (including tactical) or Engineer (including operations).

Command is something you roll into when assigned leadership positions in those respective fields, not?

[John Hathaway]

That's true Alex, but not everyone who starts in those fields is looking for a Command career path. The question includes Command as an ultimate goal, which not everyone would have.

A lot of good options in there, interesting potential in each of them. I'm honestly not sure.

[tom]

I picked science as in the star trek universe there is a wide variety to discover and learn about.

[LynxMukka]

I went with Operations due to the fact that, in certain ways you can broach several areas rather than one specifically.

[Chris Wilkinson]

I'd go security as you get to keep the ship safe and you get to use weapons

[Mikester92]

If we were in starfleet, we'd probably had to chose from one of three branches; Sciences (including medical), Security (including tactical) or Engineer (including operations).

Command is something you roll into when assigned leadership positions in those respective fields, not?

As mentioned in the survey, there're dozens of branches within Starfleet from which one can chose from. For example, an officer might not be interested in the three branches you previously mentioned, but rather they might be interested in being a history professor at Starfleet Academy or a historian, a career option which doesn't require Science, Securitry, or Engineering training. The same can be said for those looking for an administrative career in perhaps the Starfleet Administration division. This is why I include 'other' in all my polls, because the questions asked are usually very broad.

That said however, I chose to have Ops separate from Engineering; and Medical separate from the Sciences because they are generally popular choices. For as seen in the poll, the Medical Career path seems to be more popular than the Science Path.

[John Hathaway]

Good poll by the way Mikester

[Mikester92]

Thank you.

[Okato]

Interesting poll, it seems we have alot of ''Commanders'' here =)