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Hmmmm....so, apparently the arrowhead insignia was representative of the organization first then given to just the enterprise...then back to the organization just before TMP...
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I think the producers probably believed that the arrowhead was always the symbol of Starfleet, even during TOS. Of course, some of us here might even agree with that...
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TOS never existed.
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Maybe the Friendship One-arrowhead was the mission symbol (just like every space-shuttle flight has its own symbol) and Enterprise (1701) used it to honor the famous probe. Besides this, the nacelle clearly reads UESPA, not Starfleet.
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Most likely the Enterprise insignia was derived from the old UESPA logo to highlight the scientific nature of the vessel.
On the other hand it's possible that starships at that time bore the symbol of the institution they were permanently assigned to, so a couple dozen different ships could have shared the old UESPA delta where as the other ship insignias we saw were derived from other such institution (Vulcan Science Academy, Bolian Merchant Navy, Andorian Stellar Probe Agency) so when all of these were finally intergrated into a single unified Federation Starfleet in the 2270s a fleet wide symbol based on the old UESPA logo was used...not much of a theory I know but a theory none the less.
Oh and Masao, I have a larger version of the Friendship One markings I did for the Valient if you'd like to have it.
. . . a design on other starships and on the walls behind admirals and commodores when the Enterprise was talking to Starfleet Command.
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Really? I don't recall seeing the boomerang delta anywhere else except on the original Constitutions and the Raven. Do you have screen-caps to back this up?
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I started a thread about this very fact a long time ago... I'll try and fish out the nice screen grab I had of the 'boomerang' from "Court Martial".
Andrew
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