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Depends on the Trek and the Captain. Kirk and Picard seem to have become Captain in their late 20s. Kirk was considered a bookworm intellectual at the Academy, even taught some classes to the first years in his last year. When he wasn't chasing skirts that is. Picard was also an acedemic, but reckless until afterwards.
The new film Kirk is slightly different in personality, but even being shown to be a cocky bastard that chases anything with breasts, is shows remarkable intelligence in some fields and very good memory retention. They also promoted him to Captain right out of the Academy...which is highly unusual (and a few years early...though Kirk normally would have been Captain of a smaller ship by then if I recall correctly....just not of something as big and important as the Enterprise)
Marika will need her education in the future of being a Privateer. While a Pirate can get away with not knowing stuff, a Privateer needs to know things in order to survive. Since a Privateer is legal and registered with the government, they need to be able to know what the political history of an area of space is. They need to be able to act both in a professional fashion and in the dramatic over the top fashion (Chiaki is already a master of this). They potentially need to rub elbows with the galaxy's elite and shoud be able to hold a conversation that isn't all "This one time we had pew pew lasers" or "ARRR, WHERE BE THE BOOTY?"
Jenny seems to be the example of someone that can speak to the elite...though she is the elite it seems. She does have a way with words when talking to the dregs ("bakame, over")
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