Comment Re:Star Trek Fan (Score 1) 173
Disco Ninja noted:
The pilot episode of DS9 via flashbacks explores the personal experience of Captain Sisko (though he was a commander in the pilot) during the battle of Wolf 359.
The captain of a naval vessel is always referred to as "Captain," regardless of his actual rank. Likewise, a visitor or passenger whose actual rank is captain on a naval vessel is accorded a courtesy promotion to admiral for the duration of his/her visit, so as to remove any possibility of confusion over who is in command of the ship.
This is one of the many, MANY points of military culture that every Star Trek iteration since TOS reliably gets wrong.
As for Amimojo's praise of SNW's "faithfulness" to TOS, I'd note that - as just one example - in S02E09, Captain Pike refers to the ship as having a crew of 200, whereas TOS established repeatedly that the Enterprise crew numbered 425. (And that, according to canon, Kirk inherited command of the exact same physical NCC-1701 that Pike commands in SNW.)
I grind my teeth over the plethora of writing sins in every episode - and, at that, it's by far the best version of ST since Enterprise