Well, that's definitely one important intention, but the final products are meals with many cooks. As far as the prevailing view, I think Theiss won that one. As the article notes, the differing patches were such a common idea that it was revised back to the Defiant in ST:ENT, and presumably served as logical basis for the shoulder patches of the 2150's.
I am not saying different symbols are better or worse. I mean, Jein's fanzine assertion that Starbase 12 had every Constitution being repaired at the same time is rather odd, even silly, but it cannot now be meaningfully fought, either.
Personally, I now rather dig the idea of a symbol super-close to the common delta but just different enough to fit the pattern.
Depending on the era, though, the uniforms may still suck. ;-)
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I could understand including Sarek, he's a prominent figure in Federation politics, it makes sense he'd be there. But now it's starting to look like they want to retell old stories and revisit old characters rather than come up with new ones.
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I know, how exciting! The trailer strongly implies the main character is a Vulcan passing as a human. I guess those are ancient Klingons too.
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Also, the vibe I got was that Burnham may have been a human born/raised on Vulcan for some reason. Maybe her given name was given to her by a Vulcan who didn't get that "Michael" is usually a male name?
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I think she might be at least partially Vulcan, and is trying to hide this fact publicly. Those eyebrows definitely scream Vulcan to me, though.
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