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[[File:IMy_Picturespimp20riker.jpg|thumb|340px|As First Officer, this is your job. No parody here, this is literally what you fucking do all day.]]A lot of [[canonites]] think that the '''First Officer''' is equivalent to the Navy's '''Executive Officer''' billet. No, not really. [[Starfleet]] is, in fact, a commercial airline that can trace its roots all the way back to [[20th century]] [[Earth]]'s [[wikipedia:Pan-Am|Pan-Am]]. Thus it is appropriate to consider the non-flying pilot the "first officer." And except for [[memoryalpha:The Galileo Seven|one]] or [[memoryalpha:The Immunity Syndrome|two]] occasions, how often did [[Spock]] fly? And how else can you explain the elevation of an [[Chuckles|evident mutineer]] to the XO spot? Yeah, that's what I thought. It is also crucial to recall that [[Landru]] was a commercial pilot and avid [[memoryalpha:Star Trek is...#The Characters|Horatio Hornblower]] fan. By keeping this in mind, then the apparently silly rank structure of Starfleet makes perfect sense. Get with the program and become One with the Body, sport. ==Duties and Responsibilities== Everything cool the [[Captain]] gets to do, which is everything under the sun in the realm sci-fi adventure, you get to do with none (read: NONE) of the attached responsibilities. You get full access to the armory, the ability to fly any [[Shuttlecraft]] and support ships at any time for whatever reason you feel like making up, high-level security clearance, a bigger paycheck than 98% of your coworkers, better quarters, and free reign on your ship/base. Not to mention the the fact you get to boss around everyone except your commanding officer, [[chief medical officer]], and the odd visiting [[Admiral]] or diplomat. But what are the things expected of you as first officer? ''All you have to do'' is walk onto the bridge and stand next to the [[Captain]] for at least 15 minutes a day. Now sometimes, you may also where a [[blueshirt]] and be asked to pull double duty as [[science officer]]. This is less a curse than a blessing. One, a blueshirt on your person makes you deathproof (think about it). Two, you get double pay. Three, you get to relay information from a big computer to your crew - which really is remarkably simple but everyone will think you're just the smartest goddamn brain around for essentially expressing verbally all the stuff the supercomputer/sensor network has already scanned and calculated. And you get a nifty free [[tricorder]] to top it all off. Basically, an XO gets all sex, glory, action and adventure the Captain gets, just without any paperwork or requirement to give a damn.
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