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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I dig the "experience CoC" table, too. What I'd suggest for aesthetics is moving the warrant ranks down one step, so that one black pip coincides with the one dot (plus three chevrons) of CPO rate, two black pips coincide with the two dots of SCPO, and *three* black pips coincide with the three dots of MCPO. This would also mean that O'Brien's moving from his single-pipped TNG "warrant" to a supposed DS9 rate of SCPO would look like a promotion to him, not just a transfer. Of course, the collar markings of O'Brien never made real sense, but at least we could now pretend that he was a CPO all the time aboard the Enterprise, simply with a warrant given by Picard because he was short of real officers in "Encounter at Farpoint". This warrant expired some years into DS9, by which time O'Brien's "real" rate had been raised with a promotion from CPO to SCPO. O'Brien then reverted to this rate, since he and Sisko felt it unnecessary to play with warrants any more - things were less formal aboard the station than they had been aboard the Federation Flagship. We could also pretend that during the times O'Brien wore two pips in TNG (and Riker stupidly mistook him for Lieutenant), his warrant was temporarily hitched up one notch for some reasons of bureaucracy (perhaps his status as transporter chief was endangered because another single-pip warrant officer had temporarily come aboard, and a pecking order had to be established?). Toying with warrants feels more acceptable than toying with actual ranks and rates - warrants come and go, while ranks at least are eternal. Naturally, every time we thought we saw one of O'Brien's TNG pips was silver, we were just seeing things. The pips were solid black all the time. ;) (Comparing the pips in "Encounter at Farpoint" and "All Good Things.." should be proof enough!) Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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