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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] Earth naval traditions bleeding across into Starfleet is one thing (of this there are numerous examples, from the rank structure to those funny whistles), pretending that Starfleet is a maritime organisation is something else. This is part of the reason why I abhor the term "Starfleet Marines". I get a similar shudder whenever I hear yanks mispronounce sub-mariners as "submarine-ers". Grr. Personally I'd rather think that any future space organisation will have more in common with a modern air force than a modern navy. Which is one thing I really liked about the B5 universe. As to why Starfleet has such a strong link to Earth's western Navies of the 19th, 20th & 21st centuries...I've often postulated that since the early deep space ships (should have) resembled modern submarines, at least from the crew's point of view, allot of the terminology, traditions and possibly some personnel might have been 'borrowed' out of convenience and it simply stuck. As for Harry's fixation on the number 12, I almost always used the number 42 in my drawings...but only because I could never get the hang of Thursdays. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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