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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] The rank insignia of Fleet Captain Pike were something of a non-issue since he was built in to the furniture from neck down. I guess Starfleet could have painted the stripes as cheat lines to the wheelchair, but they didn't. Three stripes for Fleet Captain is possible but a little confusing. In ST:TMP (and AFAIK Enterprise), three closely spaced solid stripes are what forms the wide central stripe in flag ranks (i.e. Kirk has three plus one for Rear Admiral, Forrest has one plus three plus one for Vice Admiral). Of course, in TOS the wide stripe was made of special cloth, not of three stripes. And three separated stripes would be distinguishable from three joined ones. But it still is a bit dubious. Franz Joseph incorrectly gives the three separated stripes as the Commodore rank marking. Bob Fletcher's scheme for TOS movie rank pins is sometimes fleshed out with a captain's pin that has extra arrowheads, and variously called the Commodore or Fleet Captain pin. It's a nice design, and since Fletcher already has a Commodore pin, it would best serve as a Fleet Captain one. There are pros and cons for assuming that Fleet Captain is a regular rank. One of the big cons (apart from us so seldom hearing about it, and it not being based on The Real World) is that it's one more rank for Kirk and Janeway to skip on their ludicrously fast track to flag rank. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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