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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Darkwing: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Phoenix: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Darkwing: [qb]Mixing systems gets messy and confusing.[/qb][/QUOTE]Yet again I am forced to ask: Why? When Starfleet was created they presumably started over from scratch. They would have asked themselves what was the best way to do a certain thing, not said "One of the countries on Earth uses this system, so we must use it or else". If the person drawing up rank charts thought that the British enlisted system was better, he would have used it. And frankly, arguments to do with how easy it is for viewers to work out the ranks are irrelevant. I, at least, am trying to analyse Trek as a reality, not a TV show. That is why things like the Melbourne are problems to me. I can't say "they made a mistake". I have to think of a reason for it that fits into the Trek reality. [/qb][/QUOTE]It's not a reality, and you'll save yourself a lot of trouble if you ask about the real reason before looking for the story reason. I only look for a story reason if the real reason isn't good enough. After all, Paramount still refuses to give a story reason for the change in the Klingons and Romulans. The real reason was more money for makeup, and theft of Romulan background when it was necessary to reconstruct Klingons as something other than 1984/USSR/Mongol empire. That doesn't satisfy me, but Paramount will never explain it other than to claim it was always that way; they just didn't have the budget to show it before. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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