Pseudo-Military Swotocracy

[_marauder_]

Comments

[crazymeandave]

it's more than likely explainable by the population of "the federation" which is - i presume - enormous... ergo, the starfleet officers will be selected based upon merit, and, as the sample population is so big, they will be the best of the class.

[gypseymission]

Maybe to have a starfleet exemplory record and finish top of your class you have to blow every other student's ship out of the water and murder everyone else, so there is no-one who lives long enough to acquire a blemish on their record

[luger_]

Ok, sorry to be a trekky, but..

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/episodes/TNG/detail/68588.html

Go see. In the alternative timeline, Picard becomes an average, crappy officer who doesn't 'stand out'.

;-)

[_marauder_]

Thanks for the reminder. Amazingly I actually remember watching that one after school one Wednesday in the mid 90s.