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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] If you might be so willing as to accept a theory: In the TNG era, "Petty Officers" and "Warrant Officers" have been combined. Upon achieving, say, Petty Officer First Class, the holder recieves a warrant of equivalent service to an Ensign, and as someone puts in more service, as well as a continually-increasing petty officer rank (rate?) they'd also get a continually-increasing warrant. (The rate might simply climb based on years of service while the warrant might advance on a merit-only system.) In the uber-egalitarian world of TNG, petty officers w/warrants would actually get to wear the same rank insignia as their equivalently-qualified friends who'd gone through the Academy. So, O'Brien in "Encounter at Farpoint" held an ensign's warrant, which bumped up to lieutenant (jg) by the second season and eventually hit full lieutenant. (Methinks Picard was impressed as hell with this guy.) This would explain why absolutely every extra on the show had officer's pips on, because some of them were in face enlistees w/warrants. Anyway, as Riker "yes lieutenant" proved, this system promoted confusion when addressing these guys. So, around the time of "Realm of Fear," Starfleet ditches the Barneyriffic everyone-is-special system and makes all the petty officers wear single hollow pips. This, too, is kinda unfair as well. So finally, compromise... the new rank system introduced in "The Visitor" has chevrons to indicate rating as a petty officer and pips alongside them to indicate warrant officer equivalency. Evidently it's damn near impossible to get a lt. cmdr's equivalency in warrant form, as O'Brien would have kept a full lieutenant's equivalency from season 4 of TNG (yes/no?) to the end of DS9, or nine years.. which is in the Data zone. Thoughts? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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