Yeah , it ' s litteraly what hey ' ve been doing for the last 14 years on Top Gear yes I ' m counting season 23 too so I don ' t see why it wouldn ' t work with TGT , and just to avoid the '' we can ' t have a silent racing driver '' crap , they could ask him for a brief comment on the car after the lap without making it a technical 5 hour discussion . It would be enough with something like '' what ' s it like ? '' '' It ' s gooddecentincredible etc . and compares tois an alternative to insert random car name here . ''<| sep |> Hey do you know how many keys black pulses go for ? <| sep |> You ' ll be fine with a 1060 , my 960 did fine too but I won a 1080 so sold it off . <| sep |> We ' ve seen multiple times that rank isn ' t the only signifier of what your role is on a starship . For example , in The Best of Both Worlds , part 2 , Riker explains to Lieutenant Worf and Lt . Commander Data that his first officer will be Commander Shelby . At that time , Beverly Crusher was a Commander and there were other Lt . Commanders on the crew , like Geordi LaForge and Deanna Troi . In Redemption , part 2 , Data is given temporary command of the Sutherland after voicing concern that he wasn ' t given command of a ship in the temporary fleet . The only Enterprise officer to be given command of another vessel there is Commander Riker , the fact that Data felt it was appropriate to play the race card over not being put in command of a vessel that already had an officer of his rank available shows that being 2 nd officer of a vessel counts for something above and beyond rank . Geordi didn ' t complain about being assigned to be a first officer , despite them being of the same rank . At that point Data claimed to have 26 years of Starfleet experience , but Riker was only 33 years old . Clearly , it ' s possible to be an experienced command officer and be of lower rank than people who have been in the service for less time . But , that ' s all about lower ranks . Captain is a little different . Chakotay ' s rank on Voyager seems to be unclear between Lt . Commander and Commander , both provisional , but we ' ve seen that this is still enough to be in command of a ship in unusual circumstances . Moreover , he has significant command experience in the Marquis , where he captained his own vessel . Ransom being added to the mix would complicate things by rank , but you ' ve still got three people who captained vessels and one ship to fill with officers . I believe that if Ransom has abandoned his ship and the experiments had not come to light , you may well be correct that he would replace Chakotay as XO , but I don ' t believe Janeway would have been obligated to do this . I think she could have made Ransom a department head or given him some detached duty aside from being XO , as his rank wouldn ' t be sufficient to override her orders as captain . In fact , I think Ransom would have preferred this . He ' s described as primarily a scientist , I think he ' d consider it less insulting to be put in charge of sciences and reporting directly to the captain , rather than do the administrative duties of first officer after so long in command . One way this could be made more politic is the same way that Starfleet was able to send Kira Nerys to Cardassia in the final arc of DS 9 Janeway could have promoted Chakotay to full commander , meaning there was much less of a gap between ranks to make people uncomfortable .