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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Darkwing: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Phoenix: [qb] Yes, but Star Trek was set in the 2200s. The fact that the US Navy had Commodores in the 1960s is pretty irrelevant. By the time of Kirk, US Navy Commodores will have been gone for a very long time (and I see very little chance of them coming back, seeing as that would involve RAdms (lower half) becoming Commodores, and they wouldn't want that, would they?), whereas RN Commodores will probably be around for a long time. Comments? :) [/qb][/QUOTE]If you are staying in the reality of the show, yeah they're irrelevant, but realistically, the rank was not abolished til after the show, so it was based on what actually existed in the real world. Since by the time TNG was filmed, the rank no longer existed, they dropped it on the show as well. And I prefer not to mix and match from the RN/USN schemes. Pick one and stick with it, IMO. Trek uses the USN scheme for line officers, ignores warrants most of the time, and when it doesn't ignore enlisted, just makes things up out of thin air, so adding some RN designators would simply make things even more confusing. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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