Please make sure to recall, you're talking a minimum crew of EXPERIENCED players. Putting me in a minimum crew would probably not be the best idea, yet. I noticed I was already counted in this discussion; I shouldn't be. I'm a decent RPer, and probably will be up to speed at least as quickly as most everyone else, but while I probably already have most of the technical side down, I don't know the people or their motivations well enough. I will be bumbling about trying to learn these things, and IMO, it is character interaction that makes it fun.
On the opposite face of the same coin- it makes for decent promotions fairly quickly. My long-term plan, without knowing anything about it and I might be talking out the aft, is to rise to a moderate enlisted rank, then go mustang and join whatever you guys use for OCS.