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I really don't think that Natalia Nogulich, the actress who played Admiral Nechayev, is dead. I can't be certain since the IMDb appears to be down at the moment. However, she does all the Bible readings for A&E's "Mysteries of the Bible", so she must be at least semi-alive.
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According to IMDb, she hasn't been in anything since early 1998.
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grb: I like it with one or two minor revisions.
I don't know if we can say that Ross is command of all the Federation forces in the Dominion war for sure. But we can say that by the end of the series he is certainly in charge of all the forces operating in the Bajoran theatre of the war. It seems like, as Vice-Admiral, it's more likely that he as command over a particular theatre of operations than over the whole war. For instance, several times he just reports on the goings on the Bolian or Vulcan Fronts, where it seems there would likely be other Admirals. As an analogy, think of Ike in WWII. In command of all Allied forces in Europe, but not the whole war.
Continuing the analogy and a point I've made on some other boards: Sisko's importance seems to me completely in keeping with his experience in the sector and in dealing with the Dominion. Not to mention commander of the primary base. I tend to think of him as Omar Bradley to Ross's Ike. Though the rank can be confusing.
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It's very strange to think that the people who make Star Trek created the encyclopedia to keep track of things and yet we still have to point out mistakes in both the shows and the encyclopedia itself. A mon avis, I believe that the four pips inside the box is for fleet admiral. The fact that admirals on the shows who were addressed as fleet admiral while wearing the three pips inside the box was a mistake.
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With The five-star fleet admiral thing aside (don't know where they got that from) who can blame the Enclyclopedia people for labeling the Admiral insignias generically (one star, etc.). The show is so inconsistant with Admiral rankings what are they supposed to do? The Tom: Actually the last time a Commodore was mentioned was in the com traffic at the beginning of ST: TMP. Kirk was just so cool that they kicked him straight up to Rear Admiral. Of course even by the chronology's (in my opininion stupid) assessment that only a year (or whatever) went by between TOS and TMP, that still gives Kirk enough time to become a Commodore, and then be promoted to RADM. While I was in the Navy I saw an Admiral go from RADM LH to UH to VADM over a six month period and she wasn't even a great hero like Kirk.
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Wait a minute I assumed they would just take normal US Naval Ranks you know Rear Admiral one pip, Vice Admiral two pips, Admiral three pips, Fleet Admiral four pips. Any way I thought the rank of a Commodore was an honerary rank given to a captian when he was on another ship, so there who only be one captain on the ship. Of course being Star Trek the couldn't follow the perfectly logical system the US navy had, they had to make there own one up loosy based on the US Navy's ranks .
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