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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MarianLH: [QB] Another question for people with real military experience: In [i]Star Trek: The Motion Picture[/i] [URL=http://www.st-spike.de/pages/uniforms/2271-2277/ranks.htm]there's no rank insignia for lieutenant (junior grade).[/URL] According to [i]The Making Of TMP[/i] the rank didn't exist during this time. Obviously, it's back by the time of [i]Star Trek II[/i]. I don't know if they actually meant to remove the rank, or forgot about it and make up the idea to cover their asses. Is that realistic, eliminating a rank and then restoring it a decade later? I know real services have tinkered with their ranks to some extent--the US Army's gotten rid of those technical ranks since WWII, for instance. Has a military [i]added[/i] a rank in the last century or so? What happens to people in the rank above? Do they get to keep their current rank, or drop down to the new one? And why might Starfleet want to get rid of the rank, and for what reason might they bring it back? I'm tempted to ignore the official story and say that the ensign's single broken stripe is actually a lieutenant commander, while ensigns have no stripe. This would make the TMP uniform cuff rings the same as those in TOS. But for those who want to account for every detail on screen this may be unnacceptable--in TMP a character is actually addressed as "ensign," and he has the cuff ring. If there's a plausible reason why Starfleet might do away with the rank, and then change its mind a decade later... Marian [/QB][/QUOTE]
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