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To torment you and everyone else that thinks a low-budget 1960's TV show is somehow the pinnacle of design and can never be improved upon, Ultra-Moojuice.
Really, some TOS fans are just as fanatical as any religion.
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quote:Originally posted by The Captain from M.I.K.E.: well, there was a Starfleet style Delta for UESPA on Ares IV, and a warped Starfleet style delta on the SF command patch in the ENT era, so I'm postulating that the sideways, warped version may start around the formation of the federation (the boomerang pennant insignia also looks like its a partial evolution from the ENT SF command patch, too)
i don't think its too far fetched for Starfleet to have a delta symbol, theyre everywhere during the 2000s and 2100s, even before the 1701
Well your 'sideways warped version' - is the 'boomerang' from the TOS starship pennents and the starfleet command logo AND seen on TOS starbases... where is that picture of Starbase ??11?? again...
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Lets not forget the Cronowerx logo which most likely was the company that gave way to many Starfleet era technologies (modern computing, etc). This was circa 1996.
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quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: But that logo was actually the emblem of the 29th-century Starfleet.
I agree that the classic arrowhead should not crop up, especially not as a fleetwide symbol.
Henry Starling found the Aeon timeshuttle that Braxton crashed into 1960's earth. It had this 29th Century Starfleet emblem and he used it and the technological secrets inside the Aeon timeshuttle to form Cronowerx, who is majorly responsible for the late 20th century technological leap (and possibly the very early catalyst for the technologies used almost 150 years later).
So someone adapts the Cronowerx logo as the symbol for early interstellar probes, the Enterprise, and finally Starfleet itself.
I think we all know where this is going.
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Maybe the Trek version of the arrowhead shouldn't appear, but what about something closer to the contemporary flight symbol? If you don't understand what I mean, it's the delta-shaped widget seen many places, but especially prominent on the AF Space Command logo. Basically, it's our familiar arrowhead, except symmetrical and non-curvy.
I think something like this as the captain's special tunic, imagine a ship patch on the shoulder and rank bars or pips on top of the shoulders. A little old is new again.
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Looks like a special ops uniform from TNG. Mabye if the kept that design but in the current starfleet blue and just added pips. Or mabye a color-coded departmental band on the cuffs to denote rank instead (three for commander, etc.).
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