Ensigns are like Specialist in the Army . . . so many of them . . . so little experience as compared to seasoned crewmembers.
For example:
and
Ensign or 2LT . . . they are still butter bars . . . they have just as much operational experiance as a PO3 or a SPC. They have great potential, just as any crewmember has, but as the latter script states.
Reminds me of a store of what happened to a 2LT who pulled rank on a CSM. The CSM had to obey, but the 2LT had to answer to the COL afterwords. That musn't have been pretty.