quote: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.
quote: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
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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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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