Originally Posted by
FODPlod
Luckily we can follow the precedent set by
Starfleet. Starfleet Command is run by Admirals, uses naval terminology and has a career structure incorporating naval ranks. Its spacecraft (including the flagship USS
Enterprise) are even built in Starfleet Shipyards.
That's American Starfleet. Royal Starfleet would be led by members of the seaman branch with all the right warfare & watchkeeping courses, but no intergalatic experience bar being invited to the wedding of an astronaut mate of his (whose career peaked at Commander), and filtering out most of the advice from the one astronaut/aviator on his staff. And the paper proposing that this was a silly way of doing things and proposing a much better approach would've been squashed on spurious grounds, despite making it to the Sec of State's office, as various surface fleet and submarine officers gently explained that aviators have litte understanding of wider fleet issues, making them inappropriate for command even in an environment where you'd have thought they'd be the most suited to the job...
(Any similarities with a sponsored research paper into career strutures for aviators in the era of CVF are entirely conicidental. Allegedly)