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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phoenix: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Darkwing: [qb]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]Yes, I am staying in the reality of the show. Isn't that what we're meant to do? I am not trying to figure out what Paramount wanted it to be like. I am using the evidence in the show to come up with a plausible description of how the fictional Star Trek world works. Regarding the Senior Chief thing, it is perfectly possible that Starfleet's term for Technical Specialists (or any other grade for that matter) who are at my hypothetical WO grade is Senior Chief Technical Specialist (ie they were Technical Specialist at PO, Chief Technical Specialist at CPO, and when they become WOs, they get a "Senior" to show how important they are). I know its not how the US Navy works, but Starfleet is not the US Navy. Think how much different our naval ranks are to those of 400 years ago. The "Starfleet just must be identical to the US Navy or the universe will collapse" attitude, while it seems to be popular, is neither proven nor realistic. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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