Evyn replied to me:
Too many Chiefs..... One, maybe two for a crew that size.... Plus a Medical Rating... Also consider this what are your Watch Rotations going to look like?
For powered flight, the mate or the bridge watchstander and the engineer or the engine watchstander are in the cockpit. The captain takes over for tricky maneuvers or if one of the others is unavailable. The cook/purser prepares the main meals and one of the juniors takes over for 'midrats'. And the junior spacers do routine maintenance and housekeeping. In orbit or on the ground they need fewer people in the cockpit, but the spacers might be required to help the scientists with EVA.
I thought the captain, the mate and the engineer should be officers for the purposes of quarters calculation. Otherwise they're very senior chiefs doing an officer's job, and need just as much privacy and office space in their cabins. The two non-officer watchstanders are chiefs, too, and I called the cook/purser a chief because of the administrative job. The last one the most flimsy.
The nine others are actually science staff. The Navsea manual assigns less room to embarked troops, but I figured that the scientists need just as much room as the crew. Three academics, who get as much room as an officer, three lab assistants, who are rated like chiefs, and three interns or students, who get quarters like 'enlisted'.
Good point re the medic, that should be a 'second hat' for one of the science staff. Not every biologist can fill in as a physician, but a biologist is closer than a mechanic.
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