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* The engineer is O'Brien. He's not an officer so perhaps it's unfair to consider him. He's left running Ops on the station for a little while in the pilot, when all the other Starfleet and Bajoran characters are in the Wormhole, but that's it. And he was never in command on TNG, either, by the way.
** O'Brien is not technically an officer, but his status as a Chief with large amounts of seniority clearly places him at a certain place in the chain of command. While he's technically the lowest-ranked person in the room at any given moment, it's pretty clear that no one except Sisko or his acting XO would ''dream'' of giving him an order (at least with any hope of having him just merrily follow it), and that in fact in the event of the first two or three members of the command crew becoming incapacitated, he probably ''would'' be put in command (at least in a combat situation).
** Shipboard chain of command is handled by ''position'', not pay grade. Chief O'Brien is chief engineer of DS9 -- as such, he is third in the chain of command, right behind the CO and XO, because that's where Starfleet procedure puts the chief engineer. Its just that 'chief engineer' is a job ''normally'' held by someone around a lieutenant commander's pay grade. O'Brien got it because special circumstances.
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