Helm and Navigation personnel provide the ship with pilots and co-pilots. They also provide the ship with experienced shuttlecraft and Runabout pilots and co-pilots.
Generally, cadets who major in Helm/Navigation are cadets who eventually wish to become Commanders. Those cadets will also wish to attend Command School.
Appropriate Minors include Operations, and Engineering.
Operations majors provide an interface between the day-to-day normal activities of the crew on board ship and the command personnel, as well as providing audio and video communications with personnel on ship and on planets, and provide an interface with StarFleet Command through the subspace radio on board. The communications/operations fields were merged in StarFleet in 2320.
This is the major for cadets who wish to pursue advancement in the command line fields of StarFleet. Operations personnel study a program designed to give them a working knowledge of all other divisions in StarFleet. Ops officers are frequently trained to become commanders themselves. The Ops cadet usually minors in Helm/Navigation, but any other field where a minor is offered is acceptable.
Com/Ops Major
To major in Com/Ops, a cadet must have the following 18 credits:
Administration: StarFleet Bases and Outposts
Administration: StarFleet StarShips
Administration: Deployment
Astrogation: Navigation of Starships, Sublight
Astrogation: Navigation of Starships, Warp Speed
Astronomy: Astrophysics, General
Diplomacy: Hostile Species
Engineering: Operations and Command Functions
Engineering: Life Support Systems
Engineering: Deflectors, Weapons and Security Systems
Engineering: Base-Mode Operations
Language: (Non-Terran, Major Species)
Level 2, being of the same language as chosen Core Requirement course.
Tactics: Combat, Phasers and Photon Torpedos
Tactics: Combat, Introduction to Starship Combat
Tactics: Small Units
Tactics: Strategy of Battle 1
Tactics: Strategy of Battle 2
Tactics: Leadership
Com/Ops Minor
To minor in Com/Ops, a cadet must have the following 6 credits:
Diplomacy: Hostile Species
Engineering: Operations and Command Functions
Engineering: Deflectors, Weapons and Security Systems
Engineering: Base-Mode Operations
Language: (Non-Terran, Major Species)
Level 2, being of the same language as chosen Core Requirement course.
