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Spock's Grandson The female Romulan commander from The Enterprise Incident is Simon Tarses' grandmother.   Simon Tarses was an apparently half-Vulcan technician aboard the Enterprise-D who comes under suspicion in The Drumhead  when his real Romulan ancestry is exposed. Obviously, Spock and the Romulan had a brief affair when he was her prisoner aboard the Romulan ship. The result was a pregnancy. The child of three planets was born in a Federation prison and, presumably, adopted by a Martian (human) couple. This child had a son who joined Starfleet.   

Star Trek's  Data had a field commission before attending Starfleet Academy. This website points out that    Data  joined Starfleet shortly (2341 CE) after being rescued but was still at the academy in 2378*. If both dates** are correct then perhaps Data didn't become a officer until 2278 because he joined as an enlisted man. At some point either he was required to serve on the bridge or as part of an away team. Both require an officer's commission to participate so I would imagine that Data was given a field commission by his commanding officer (the captain of the Trieste?) in order to do so. To be promoted further Data then had to attend the academy. It is possible that Miles  O'Brien went through the same process but that he declined academy attendance in order to take the position of Transporter Chief on the USS Enterprise-D. On closer inspection I appear to be wearing loafers. *The first series of Star Trek: The Next Generation a...

Wolf 359 Despite having thousands of starships, losing "only " thirty-nine at the Battle of Wolf 359 seems to have been a big loss to Starfleet. I can only think of two reasons why this is the case. The first Starfleet is referring to a "medieval" thirty-nine ships, where "one ship" refers to twenty (as in one knight refers to twenty mounted warriors). In this case Starfleet would have lost 780 ships, out of a possible total of 3400 to 7000. The second Starfleet only has around forty to fifty state-of-the-art  frontline starships. Therefore, losing thirty-nine to the Borg is a great loss of lives, materiel and morale. The whole fleet is as large as estimated but mostly consists of much older, relatively outdated vessels. The fleet as a whole consists of: Science vessels Courier ships Freighters Cargo vessels Survey ships and  Transports