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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Middy Seafort: [QB] Starfleet vs. the Real US (or Royal) Navy. An army fella once told me that there are two things in life an army boy could never understand: Navy ranks and British money. Well, I rather think that Starfleet ranks is a hellav lot harder to understand than Navy ones. Is Starfleet a military? Yes, it is. It breathes,acts and behaves like a military. Must be one. Non of this TNG paramilitary organization crap. Why? The Navy also does exploratory research (in the seas) much like Starfleet. Starfleet, on the other coin, is called when there is a threat-- i.e. V'Ger, the Borg, the Romulans, the Klingons. There may not be any saluting, but everthing else sings of the military. Star Trek doesn't always get the military aspect right (except for Meyer, DS9, and parts of this last movie). Take a look at Enterprise; the Earth Star Fleet is acting much like the Picard one. Do we really expect to believe this? However, I've always felt that the old Star Trek, especially the movie-era past TWOK, was more like the old Royal Navy in its heyday before WWII. There should be different classes of ships; from frigates to destroyers. Franz Joseph in his TOS Tech Manual rationalized this, as did a lot of fandom tech. (See the Starfleet Mueseum website or any of James Dixon's stuff). As Roddenberry once said, there's a fleet out there but we only really get to see the Enterprise. Middy Seafort [/QB][/QUOTE]
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