To be honest, there is no way a starship captain directs the ship using "degrees mark degrees". It would not be precise enough, for a start, and no way that it would make sense.
It would be like steering a car by constantly having to say "set course 243 degrees" and the like, rather than simply setting the sat nav.
It is one of the strangest features of #StarTrek I have tolerated.
@revk Yes, well, Gene was an Air Force man not a Navy man, and that was how you flew a plane. (Even to some extent now, though you'd more usually feed a set of waypoints to the FMS and it would calculate the right bearing to fly on including wind correction.)
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