I got bored one afternoon and started coming up with ribbons for Starfleet that would be worn on the dress uniform. TOS had the, albeit weird triangular ones, the TOS movies had them as well.
Ribbon Definitions: Medal of Honor:Established in 1861 by President Lincoln, it has been America's highest honor. So high that if an enlisted servicemember were to be awarded with it, no matter how low in rank, the highest ranking admiral/general would be required to salute him. The Starfleet Medal of Honor is the Federation's highest honor, issued only by the President of the Federation.
Silver Star: Starfleet's highest award, typically receiving this would probably require dying in the line of duty. Based off the Navy Cross. For example, my ship, the USS Fitzgerald DDG-62, was named after LT Fitzgerald who received the Navy Cross after giving his life to provided cover fire for his men to escape a raid during Vietnam.
Meritorious Starfleet Service: Mostly awarded to career officers after 20 years of service. Still a high level personal award of a highly distinguished career.
Superior Defense Service: Awarded to recognize acts of selfless heroism while defending the Federation.
Purple Heart: Awarded to those injured in combat. The Purple Heart was originally called the Badge of Merit by General George Washington, it was the first military decoration in the form of a cloth heart. It was discountinued after the Revolutionary War, however reinstated by General Douglas MacArthur in 1932.
Starfleet Outstanding Service: Issued to crewmembers by the commanding officer of a starship/starbase to recognize service above and beyond the call of duty.
Presidential Unit Citation: Awarded to an entire starship's crew for acts of the Federation. For example, successful first contact missions or diplomatic missions.
Meritorious Unit Commendation: Awarded to the crew of a starship after a successful deep space deployment.
Prisoner of War: Recognizes those captured in the line of duty.
Starfleet Expeditionary: Awarded to starship crews that explore unknown regions of space and make discoveries such as new races and technologies that benefit the Federation.
Starfleet Defense Service: Given to all those that join Starfleet after completion of Starfleet Academy or Enlisted Specialist Training Camps. The SDS is a mix of the Navy's National Defense, Humanitarian Aid, and Armed Forces Expeditionary medals since Starfleet provides all those functions for the Federation.
Dominion War Victory Medal: Awarded to those that served in Starfleet during the Dominion War. The gold represents victory, the two dark red bands the blood loss and casualities. The two green bands, the hope of peace after the war. The three bands in the center represent the alliance that won the war. Blue for Federation, green for the Romulans, and red for the Klingons.
Starship Service Award: Given after completion of every three years tour of duty on a starship.
Expert Phaser Markman: Awarded to those with exceptional skill with Type-1 through Type-3 phaser hand weapons.
Starfleet Honor Cadet: Awarded to a single cadet every graduating class with the highest performance for their four years at the academy.
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The stars on the metal of honor should be more like the star shapes seen in the United Federation Of Planets Seal and less like the United States flag.
The Dominion War Victory should have more purple two bold purple stripes instead of red, it would fit the Dominion's colors well.
Other then that, looks cool.
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I... don't... know. Weird. I never even see the Armenian flag or knew what or where Armenia was until you brought that to my attention.
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Well, tell you what, the day the vast forces of the Armenian Navy sail up the Potomac and lay waste to Washington D.C., we'll have him court-martialed.
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Good job Hobbes. You should also put in there the Combat Action Ribbon for the ships in battle and maybe a Borg attack ribbon too.
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I didn't want to go overboard and make too many of them. I may add more though. In Star Trek the awards/ribbons/medals have never been consistant. Kind of like Starfleet general orders and regulations. They just got made up as they went along.
According to the encyclopedia, Sisko was given the Christopher Pike Medal of Valor. They have a pic of it, so I'll probably add it if I make more.
I don't plan on making a Borg ribbon. Instead I figure it would be a variety of awards, Superior Defense Service, Purple Heart, and a Combat Action Ribbon if I made one. I thought of doing a Cardassian War Ribbon.
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Also maybe for a shithot helmsmen a DFC, maybe a Wolf 359 ribbon also
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Which reminds me. I made this a while ago. IIRC, this was worn by that fat incompetent Klingon from STV (Korrd or something?). Name is my own invention.
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Honor Badge of the Khitomer Peace Mission Awarded to all personnel recognized as honorable attendees to the Khitomer Peace Conferences. Each ribbon presentation has a Klingon-made replica of an ancient Klingon honor pip, one of the oldest examples of Klingon militaria and rank insignia from the dynasty of Kahless.
Notable recipients: Crews of Enterprise-A, Excelsior, Starfleet representatives and Federation diplomatic envoys Sarek and Curzon Dax.
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