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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Darkwing: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Phoenix: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [qb] Two reasons: (A) As seen on DS9, there's a separate set of unique insignia for NCOs. (B) Warrant officers are a part of Navies today and it would make sense if they were also part of Starfleet's system. -[b]MMoM[/b] :D [/qb][/QUOTE](A) They could have changed them, seeing as we never saw enlisted chevron-type insignia before DS9. (B) The Royal Navy doesn't really have Warrant Officers (they have a rank called that, but its actually just the highest enlisted rank). Starfleet seems to have copied the RN in the commodore thing (not calling it a RAdm (lower half)), so maybe they copied the simple officer/enlisted system as well. [/qb][/QUOTE]Actually, Commodore [i]was[/i] a US Navy rank, but the commodore community objected to not being an 'admiral', even though they had a star, unlike the army, where all flag ranks are galled 'general', so the 2 star Rear Admiral name was altered to "upper half", and one-stars were rename RADM lower-half. Now 'commodore' refers to an O-6 (Captain) in a flag billet, like command of an Amphibious group. TOS used the commodore rank, because it was extant in the real navy at the time, TNG did not, since it no longer existed. I remember seeing a backstage letter about it in an article in the Trek magazine. Personally, I choose to assume O'Brien was a Chief Petty Officer (E-7) throughout TNG, and was promoted to Senior Chief Petty Officer (E-8) on DS9. Everything else was just script/costume errors. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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