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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] It's just a goof. As we only saw those uniforms in one movie, and have no idea how long they were in service (no more than six or seven years, tops, based on "Cause and Effect")... I've found it can only be explained away through an excessive amount of mental maneuvering, so -- at least for the time being -- I just shrug and move on. For that matter, I have a hard time with TOS ranks all the way from "The Cage" on up until Bob Fletcher completely started from scratch in TWoK. I know GR theoretically wanted a merely paramilitary service, with no way to draw a direct 1:1 real-world comparison to ranks, but people evidently couldn't wrap their brains around that, and GR himself was never very good at noodling out these technical details in a realistic way (look at his explanation for figuring stardates, due to out-of-sequence airing order). I liked non-coms having narrow silver sleeve bands, as opposed to the officers' wider gold bands, but they were dropped for regular series production. For that, Bill Theiss redid the ranks to include a bit more graduation than "1 stripe = officer, 2 stripes = Captain", but stepped it down so what the Captain was wearing was the direct equivalent of a real-world US Navy Lieutenant Commander. This only became a problem because one can't distinguish Ensigns from noncoms from crewmen if all have no sleeve stripe. GR didn't help matters by saying it was an "officers-only" specialist service, with all those slick-sleeved Ensigns serving as crew. Bob did a good job of extrapolating an enlisted corps for TMP, but the commissioned ranks remained the same, with the above mentioned oversight. Me, I'd like to go back and recreate the pre-TOS/TOS rank structure from square one -- it doesn't have to be consistent with TFS/TNG, etc., but it should include a rank indicator for Ensign and a way to differentiate enlisted ranks. --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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