40 Ideas for Posts

1. Sign up with the ship's doctor for annual first aid training.

2. Go along with security for annual live phaser fire training.

3. Daily exercise routine.

4. Have friends over for dinner.

5. Have the flight officer check you out for your annual certification to fly runabouts.

6. Get an interesting shipboard hobby: musical instrument, computer games, Polynesian dragon boat racing on the holodeck.

7. Independent research project into [insert alien civilization] political unrest.

8. Have a maintenance malfunction in your quarters and have to live with a grumpy security officer for two weeks.

9. Isolate the power draw that's causing a .01 % loss of power to the port warp nacelle.

10. Identify the molecular chain that develops Rectellian Fibrosis in humans.

12. Go outside the vessel in an EVA suit to repair damaged shielding emitters.

13. Get stuck with shipboard Legal Officer duty and have to work with alien governments to get drunken crewmen out of bizarre legal customs and strange jails.

14. Get stuck with shipboard Safety Officer duty and have to check every emergency escape pod and medical kit on the entire ship.

15. Get stuck with shipboard Supply Officer duty and try and find cargo that was misplaced two months ago while people yell at you because there's no cherry pie in the galley or the replicators.

16. All junior officers eventually have to be the Officer Of the Day, or OOD. Stalk around the ship after hours and try and catch crew members sleeping on watch.

17. Be the OOD and get stuck watching the ship while everybody else goes on shore leave.

18. Get stuck with shipboard Maintenance Officer duty and dispatch repairmen to fix malfunctioning lights in one person's quarters.

19. Get stuck with shipboard Personnel Officer duty and try and track down someone's back pay in Federation credits while you straighten out the filing disaster the last Personnel Officer left.

20. Get stuck with shipboard Training Officer duty and schedule everybody for regular annual certification and qualifications on hand to hand combat, runabout operations. Be the one who has to tell the Captain that he needs four hours of knitting to meet his annual fitness requirements.

21. Get stuck with shipboard Morale Officer duty, organize volleyball tournaments in the hanger bay and musical concerts as well as help crew members with minor personal difficulties.

22. Gather a reading group in the ship's data library.

23. Have a lengthy, detailed dream.

24. Have a detailed memory from your childhood.

25. Discover an anomaly in space from celestial calculations.

26. Discover a computer glitch in the ship's onboard computer system.

27. Find a vulnerability in the ship's computer security system.

28. Meet a potential love interest in the knitting class.

29. Find the missing pet that escaped from a crewman's quarters.

30. Attend shipboard university level class.

31. Teach a shipboard university level class to crewmembers trying for a commission.

32. Get picked for the lead part in the ship's theatre troupe for a dramatic play.

33. Get stuck inventorying extremely remote storerooms that aren't even on the ship's schematics.

34. Get stuck supervising uncooperative engineering technicians changing of air filters in everybody's quarters.

35. Check up on NPCs in your department.

36. Have NPCs in your department come to you with personal problem.

37. Get a pet.

38. Participate in Federation holiday celebration on the ship or starbase.

39. Hang out in the officer's ward room and shoot the breeze with other officers.

40. Perform some day to day rituals unique to your culture.