When was Tuchinsky mentioned to be a transporter chief and not a transporter operator -- i'm looking for a source citation for this change. -- Captain MKB 00:41, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
- Memory Alpha treats the terms as interchangeable, which was also always my impression when watching Star Trek. --Columbia clipper 03:02, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
Tooch[]
My intent in blanking the Tooch page wasn't disruption. After I complete the referencing of the Enterprise-A personnel page, I expect to create pages for those characters who don't yet have them, and check to see that all others are up-to-date so far as the Enterprise-A is concerned. In this case, I removed the redirect, but planned to come back to the page in a few days to develop a full article based on The Rift; immediately, I wanted to blank the link so that I'd know the page was missing when making the new article pass through the crew list.
As for my rationale, there is no evidence that Tooch and Tuchinsky are the same person. In fact, Tooch is referred to as "Ensign Tooch" (a typo renders it "Ensign Tooth") in narration from Kirk's perspective, which doesn't fit with normal nickname usage, even for last names (e.g. a naval officer I knew was known as "Ski" to his fellow officers, even those he didn't know well, but always as "Lieutenant ________ski" when addressed by his rank). A conclusion that Tooch and Tuchinsky are the same person appears to be completely arbitrary; there's no indication that they might be at all related, except insofar as they both manned the transporter during the same time period - and Tuchinsky's already known to have not been the only transporter chief aboard. --Columbia clipper 03:37, July 17, 2010 (UTC)