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Mikey T
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Oh they are creative...at taking things from the TNG era and remaking them into something new and shiny...
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Harry
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I think the reason that O'Brien wears his chevrons and most enlisted men do not is that O'Brien is more or less a bridge 'officer'.

Possibly to avoid painful situations in which newly fledged ensigns start ordering the Chief Engineer of a starbase around

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Obi Juan
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Hm... If you oly have to salute when wearing a hat, could you avoid saluting by taking off your hat every time a superior walks by? Pretend to be scratching your head, or something...

Well yes. But then you would get busted for being outside without a hat on.

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What bothers me more is that, even though they finally acknowledged enlisted ranks in Starfleet after all those years by giving O'Brien chevrons on his collar, whenever they have crewpeople on VGR they just have blank collars.. i could imagine some variant of a single slash on the square or a single chevron on the square to indicate their rating, going along the system of O'Brien's 3 chevrons and two pippy things sewn on there

Something like this?
http://tylgre.tripod.com/Enlisted.gif

It was created for the LUG Star Trek RPG's Players Guide but ended up never being used. I rather like it.

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still think its because the producers dont understand anyone who isnt a college boy like they are....

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Oh yes, that's the most likely explanation.
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PsyLiam
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Yes. Good thing that they've got a Brit pretending to be French on the writing team, or they wouldn't know how to write for Picard either.

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