A while back there was a thread on the academy and the size of its outgoing class.
Eventually this came round to NCO's and the possibility that they are trained at locations around the galaxy. We were then told that according to Paramount there is only Starfleet academy and anyone wearing a S/F uniform had passed through the halls.
Thus the LUG official line was dictated by Paramount.
Seems a shame that the writers of DS9 have given us canon evidence to contradict this.
Watch season 4's 'Starship Down'. When Worf takes over the Defiant from engineering and has a rant at the Crewmen, O'Brien takes Worf to one side and points out.
"These men are not officers, they never went to the academy."
So it seems fair to assume. For the purposes of my game, that NCO's didnt neccesarily have to go to San Fransisco for their training, and that each major Federation planet has a training facility...
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Dan.
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