World War Two Starship Captains

[Shai-Hulud]

The Plot Gods transport you into an alternate Star Trek universe in the year 2364, the year of TNG season one.

You are bestowed with a Starfleet Academy four-year degree, instantly downloaded all the appropriate skills, the rank of Ensign, a 21-year-old human body of perfect health, and Olympic gold medalist physical conditioning.

You get an assignment to any of eight Galaxy-class ships, your choice of which.

However, in this universe, eight historical figures were absent from World War Two, and instead were born as men of the 24th century, all about the same time, all being assigned the captaincy of Galaxy-class ships at about the same time.

Keep in mind that while the genius, essence, and personality of each man is the same as their counterparts of our world, they've grown up as men of the 24th century and so their perspective will be naturally conditioned to life there and within Starfleet.

Your choices of assignment:

• Capt. George S. Patton of the USS Steamroller.
  
  
• Capt. Douglas MacArthur of the USS Inchon.
  
  
• Capt. Yamamoto of the USS Rising Sun.
  
  
• Capt. Bernard Montgomery of the USS Golden Lion.
  
  
• Capt. Charles de Gaulle of the USS Vercingetorix.
  
  
• Capt. Erwin Rommel of the USS Desert Fox.
  
  
• Capt. Heinz Guderian of the USS Lightning.
  
  
• Capt. Georgy Zhukov of the USS Thunderstrike.

After a five-year tour of duty, the Plot Gods give you the option of returning home (no time will have passed), or staying for another five-year tour, and so on.

You cannot transfer to another vessel, and if your Captain dies, you get sent back home. If he takes promotion to Admiral, you can join his staff at Starfleet Command, or get sent back home. If you die, you get sent back home.

When you return home to our universe, you keep your memories, nothing else. The Plot Gods let you know that "fictional physics" won't work here, so trying to build a replicator or warp drive when you get home will almost certainly fail. You're welcome to try, though.

Choose your assignment.

[The MunchKING]

If I remember my TNG lore correctly the Hood is always too far away to get involved in the plot, but is close enough/cool enough that it's the one Starfleet sends to bail out the Enterprise.

So that would probably be the safe choice.

[Shai-Hulud]

If I remember my TNG lore correctly the Hood is always too far away to get involved in the plot, but is close enough/cool enough that it's the one Starfleet sends to bail out the Enterprise.

So that would probably be the safe choice.

Can't choose the USS Hood.

Only one of the eight choices listed in the OP.

[Jackalope89]

Can you still get a medical discharge/waiver if you get shot in the foot?

[Shai-Hulud]

Can you still get a medical discharge/waiver if you get shot in the foot?

If you shoot yourself in the foot, and the ship's counsellor decides you can't be treated with therapy, and are unfit for duty, you can be discharged.

When you finally disembark the ship, the Plot Gods send you home.

Or you could speed things along and phaser yourself in the head instead.

[The MunchKING]

Can't choose the USS Hood.

Only one of the eight choices listed in the OP.

Oh, I thought those didn't sound like Starfleet names, so I assumed they were the WWII ships.

I didn't know they had that many Galaxy-class ships at the beginning of TNG. I thought they only had like 5, and that's why Enterprise-D was the flagship.

[The MunchKING]

If you shoot yourself in the foot, and the ship's counsellor decides you can't be treated with therapy, and are unfit for duty, you can be discharged.

When you finally disembark the ship, the Plot Gods send you home.

Or you could speed things along and phaser yourself in the head instead.

I mean if a medical discharge would get you out of it, a much less painful way to go about it could just be failing the psych eval.

Like Barcley, just spend all day in the holodeck fulfilling your perverted fantasies until they get mad, but unlike him don't seek treatment until they kick you out.

[Beadle]

Honestly? Rommel was a frickin’ tactical and strategic star, his only problem being that his boss was a psychotic egomaniac.

In a Federation setting, I think he’d be excellent.

[Jackalope89]

If you shoot yourself in the foot, and the ship's counsellor decides you can't be treated with therapy, and are unfit for duty, you can be discharged.

When you finally disembark the ship, the Plot Gods send you home.

Or you could speed things along and phaser yourself in the head instead.

Decisions decisions.

Though, it must be noted, either way, I REFUSE to wear red shirts of ANY kind! That never ends well!

[Shai-Hulud]

....I didn't know they had that many Galaxy-class ships at the beginning of TNG....

In this alternate trekverse we have at least eleven Galaxy-class ships early-on.

The Galaxy, the Enterprise D, the Yamato (gets destroyed because they were too dumb to know how to reboot the computers, lol, goodbye chumps!), and the eight listed vessels.

...Rommel was a frickin’ tactical and strategic star....

In a Federation setting, I think he’d be excellent.

In this trekverse, Starfleet gets not only Picard, but eight of the top military talents/leaders in history.

If war breaks out with the Romulans, Cardassians, or whomever, they're going to get creamed. Even the Borg and the Dominion should find they have a tougher time. Maybe.

[The MunchKING]

Decisions decisions.

Though, it must be noted, either way, I REFUSE to wear red shirts of ANY kind! That never ends well!

In TNG that was command track. Gold was the Security guys.

Geordi wore red and he only got kidnapped like twice and they got him back safe both times. WAY better than Beverly's record.

[StupidMoniker]

In TNG that was command track. Gold was the Security guys.

Geordi wore red and he only got kidnapped like twice and they got him back safe both times. WAY better than Beverly's record.

Geordi wore gold, which was engineering in addition to security.
https://youtu.be/JGPuGsvgg14

[Beadle]

Yeah, Geordi was in gold.

[The MunchKING]

Geordi wore gold, which was engineering in addition to security.
https://youtu.be/JGPuGsvgg14

In the beginning though, when he was bridge crew he wore red.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Geordi_La_Forge