Comments on: Conn

By: Joshua Oleynik

Joshua Oleynik — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:30:39 +0000

You guys are somewhat right about the word “con” which is the same as “Conn”. However the real truth is within the english kabalah of pi, the moon, the sun, the hanged man, the hanged man. I can tell you it is “Conn Dynasty” a government of the dragon/serpent a god knowing both good and evil the original god of the world that sits on his throne, the guardian of the cosmic sap, tree of life. There is a Conn trumpet wakeup for everyone. All the facts are available by the book of “Keys In Space” by Dr. James H. Conn and yours truly. Now that you know about the real truth of the opposition seed from the beginning, now you can truly “C” “2″ the real evidence “2666.”. Misdirection was everything, do your own research.

God Bless,

The blood line seed of God.

By: Felicia D. Henegar

Felicia D. Henegar — Sat, 01 May 2010 08:17:11 +0000

Do you mind if I use you and this post as a source on my thesis? I will properly cite you.

By: Elinor

Elinor — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:37:58 +0000

*the ship that Paris piloted was Voyager, not Voyage. Typing mistake…

By: Elinor

Elinor — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:32:43 +0000

“Number one” refers to William Riker, the first officer of the Enterprise. I always thought that giving someone the conn referred to giving them control of the ship, as in actually piloting it. Wesley was the (occasional) pilot of the enterprise and Paris was the pilot of Voyage, and i constantly heard Picard or Janeway constantly “giving them the conn.” When a captain gave them the command of the ship, he gave them the HELM, as in “Data, you have the helm.” Thank you for the insightful info.

By: ceares

ceares — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:23:24 +0000

Yes! Always thought it was comm, short for command as well. Thought it was an error the first time I saw conn written out. This was extremely informative and interesting. Thanks!

By: Mannie

Mannie — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:59:45 +0000

in reference with becca s and joe s—-ME TOO ME TOO….

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:37:12 +0000

In watching Naval movies ie Hunt for Red October, I inferred the word ‘con’ to be short for ‘control’ ie the xo (executive officer) has the con or control.

By: Becca G

Becca G — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:56:41 +0000

Wow – I 2nd what Joe S said, it’s amazing that I can stumble upon this info too, even though it’s several mos later (well, actually several yrs later from when it began).

And I pretty much went thru the same process as Joe…watching Star Trek movie on dvd, and I wasn’t sure if they said comm (which is what I thought it should be) or conn, so I turned on the captions and saw that it was “conn” and was totally surprised.

So thanks all for the info, and now I know it’s “conn” (not comm).

Ciao, Becca

By: Joe S.

Joe S. — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:18:08 +0000

Thank you muchly!! I am watching the brand new “STAR TREK” (2009) on Blu-ray and heard the phrase that I have grown so familiar with, “Chekov, (or fill in the name) you have the COMM”. Through all these years, from the first episodes of the original Star Trek, I have always though the word being used was “COMM”, meaning COMMand!! However, this time I have the subtitles turned on and saw the word, “Conn”. I couldn’t believe that all these years I was getting it wrong, and worse still, I couldn’t think of what “CONN” could mean? Control? Nope…only one “n”. I am amazed that I can turn from my laptop to my desktop, and type in the words “Star”, “Trek” and “Conn” in Google, and I immediately find my answer on your marvelous website!! I can’t imagine a world without Google and billions of websites like yours, where answers to just about any question, can be answered in the click of a mouse (or is that a blink of the eye?)!! Geeze! Thanks again…Joe

By: T Lambert

T Lambert — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:41:12 +0000

This was very informative. I got the definition I needed for having the conn, plus I was entertained along the voyage. Just a few things to add. Spock was “Number One” and the guy who was eaten by a clam was most likely to be someone named Ensign Sepulveda who was never seen again. And I found it interesting that Majel went from Number One to Nurse Chapel, and eventually Doctor Chapel. A medical officer is likely the only one who can outrank the Captain, so it was possible for her to be promoted from Number One to Nurse (in the future service)… even if it wasn’t the same character.

By: Gummitch

Gummitch — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:54:59 +0000

As a former submariner, and Quartermaster, I am intimately aquainted with this term (a QM in the Navy deals with navigation– http://www.qmss.com) .

Underway, the Officer of the Deck (OOD) is the Captain’s representative on watch, responsible for and overseeing everything that happens on board during his period of duty (watch). The person that has the conn, on the other hand, is responsible only for the movement of the ship, giving orders to the helmsman and consulting with the QM on watch as to what course and speed to steer so as to get where they’re going. The OOD can, and often does, have the conn as well: he will announce it to the control room (sub)/bridge (surface ship): “This is Lt. Jones, I have the Deck and the Conn.” The conn can be delegated to a junior officer for convenience or training: “This is Lt. Jones, and I have the Deck; Ensign Pulver has the Conn.” Pulver can then give orders to the helmsman (or rather, if he does give a helm order, now the helm will listen and obey it!).

Little niceties: the Captain can give a helm order, and in so doing automatically assumes the conn. He has to formally give it back to the OOD when he’s done playing. If you saw “Hunt For Red October,” you saw how it usually works: the Captain will tell the OOD what to do, and the OOD, as the conning officer, will actually give the order to the helmsman.

All this is part of the watch-to-watch chain of command, which is formalized so that no confusion results from random people walking by giving contradictory orders.

As for “Number One,” I believe, from my novel reading, that is a British Navy nickname for the second-in-command, what the USN calls the Executive Officer or XO (the Captain is called Commanding Officer or CO).

By: joedon42

joedon42 — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:47:38 +0000

Being a potentially older geek, I recalled Number One first being used to refer to Captian Christopher Pike’s first officer. This occured in “The Menagerie” episodes as a flash back.
In a complete OT:
I also found out the woman who played that part also played that part in the original un-aired pilot and was cast as Nurse Chapel in the first series. The actress, Majel Barrett, was the computer voice for many episodes in the original and NG. She was also married to Gene Roddenberry from ‘69 until his death in ‘91.

By: jtperkin

jtperkin — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:54:32 +0000

I assumed that “con” was short for “console”. But, seeing as how Star Trek pretty faithfully borrows from nautical terminology, this makes complete sense. By the way, “Number One” refers to the first officer onboard the Enterprise from “Star Trek: The Next Generation”. Yes, I am a geek.