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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ahkileez: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Toadkiller: Well, leaving aside my thought that the Federation wouldn't have a "federal" army but something more akin to the US's national guard which can be "federalized" in emergency....[/QUOTE]Well, you and I will obviously differ on opinion here, but I'm gratified to see that you'd even consider it. Most Trek fans can only believe that Starfleet is the beginning and end of military capability of a population that counts in the hundreds of billions, if not low trillions. I know your idea of it being a national guard is your way of trying to reconcile the idea of an army with the fact that Trek only ever shows Starfleet and I appreciate the logic, though I disagree with it. [QUOTE] You seem to have more flag ranks than we've seen Star Fleet having - how many different kinds of admiral have we seen? Maybe two, three? [/QUOTE]I'm not the kind of person that notices those sorts of things, but I'm pretty sure that admirals of all levels (at least based on visible numbers of pips if not named by rank) have been shown. Having an equivalent number of general staff ranks is no different. [QUOTE] On the enlisted side we've no idea of the Fleet's structure but I'd question the need for a Corporal *and* a Specialist. Corporal is where you'd get your first significant level of leadership roles. I don't think an additional step between it and Sergeant is really needed, is it? [/QUOTE]Specialist isn't an additional step. it's more or less a lateral promotion. Lance Corporal should have been below but I put it on the same line for aesthetic reasons. Specialist would have much the same definition and role as today - which is of course to do specialized work. [QUOTE] Warrant officers, today, are sort of an ad hoc rank that, IMHO, would hopefully be phased out by the 24th century. They also tend to be poorly written in military fiction. [/QUOTE]I don't much hold to what the tv show tells me. I rely on what seems right and realistic to me. And the trek world where every officer (enlisted hardly even seem to exist) is a specialist in every conceivable area is wholly unrealistic to me. Warrant Officers are highly trained for very specific jobs, sometimes coming from outside the military directly to that position. I don't see that changing in the future. There will always be jobs that will take so much investiture to get good at it that it doesn't make sense to try to use jacks of all trades to do them. [QUOTE] They look fine though. [/QUOTE]Glad you like em :) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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