Not really. Presumably, they’d have a planetary mean time that the planetary government runs on. For earth that would probably be Greenwich mean time or San Diego time (federation/starfleet location on earth.) regardless, they’re going to a planet to meet with people. There’s going to be a standard time they’re using, whatever that is.
As for circadian rhythms, given enough time the crew would never notice. It’s an entirely artificial cycle in an entirely artificial environment. 15-30 minutes is fine. An 8 hour a/b/c shift could be rotated to b/c/a in 16 days with 30 minutes of time-shift per day, and by doing -30 minutes of time shift to c/b/a.
A 12 hour shift could be completely flipped in 24 days, as another example. And while more disruptive, you could probably push it to 2 hours a day and be okay, reducing the overall time even further.
As for things coming up, you see in the show Picard and the other officers/main crew getting woken up and taking over. And for diplomatic things, it’s always going to be the captain or the diplomatic staff no matter what time of “day”. They’re not going to let the junior officer make first contact if they can at all help it.
The only people active on the graveyard watch are basically essential ship crew and the guy making sure that the experimental doohickey doesn’t explode, maybe a sawbones in medical in case the doohickey does anyway.
In TNG it’s usually Data that’s in command, but sometimes it was given to junior officers who needed command experience and nothing was supposed to be going on, with Data (or whoever) summoning Picard whenever something comes up.
I didn’t know that about subs, interesting. Knowing sleep deprivation causes impairment on par with driving drunk I’d have assumed it was more of a concern.
Huh. Interesting. Everyone here is providing more deep background and hard-earned wisdom than any ten forward thread deserves. Do you flip over the upside down turtle? Is Kim Jong Un an idiot Y/N?
Not really. Presumably, they’d have a planetary mean time that the planetary government runs on. For earth that would probably be Greenwich mean time or San Diego time (federation/starfleet location on earth.) regardless, they’re going to a planet to meet with people. There’s going to be a standard time they’re using, whatever that is.
As for circadian rhythms, given enough time the crew would never notice. It’s an entirely artificial cycle in an entirely artificial environment. 15-30 minutes is fine. An 8 hour a/b/c shift could be rotated to b/c/a in 16 days with 30 minutes of time-shift per day, and by doing -30 minutes of time shift to c/b/a.
A 12 hour shift could be completely flipped in 24 days, as another example. And while more disruptive, you could probably push it to 2 hours a day and be okay, reducing the overall time even further.
As for things coming up, you see in the show Picard and the other officers/main crew getting woken up and taking over. And for diplomatic things, it’s always going to be the captain or the diplomatic staff no matter what time of “day”. They’re not going to let the junior officer make first contact if they can at all help it.
The only people active on the graveyard watch are basically essential ship crew and the guy making sure that the experimental doohickey doesn’t explode, maybe a sawbones in medical in case the doohickey does anyway.
In TNG it’s usually Data that’s in command, but sometimes it was given to junior officers who needed command experience and nothing was supposed to be going on, with Data (or whoever) summoning Picard whenever something comes up.
This is similar to how a submarine is run, btw.
I didn’t know that about subs, interesting. Knowing sleep deprivation causes impairment on par with driving drunk I’d have assumed it was more of a concern.
Huh. Interesting. Everyone here is providing more deep background and hard-earned wisdom than any ten forward thread deserves. Do you flip over the upside down turtle? Is Kim Jong Un an idiot Y/N?