Serving Officer

A generic, unnamed Starfleet officer who functions as an institutional resource rather than an individuated character. Command assigns this officer to fill procedural roles (legal counsel, duty assignments, or stopgap personnel) when regular staff are unavailable, turning personnel into instruments of procedure and duty. In the current episode, Picard references “one of my officers” as the person who was in trouble and whose plight motivated his intervention, reinforcing the serving officer’s narrative role as an anonymized focal point for questions of duty, loyalty, and command decision-making.