IIRC JMS once said that the space forces (blue uniforms) are a combined service of Navy and Air Force. That would explain why General Hague and Major Ryan wore blue uniforms. Of course it doesn't explain why Ivanova was promoted from Captain to General.
It could also be an error, considering other uniforms goofs. Krantz should have worn the old uniform from the B5 pilot movie and in the TV movie "In the Beginning", which was set during the Minbari war, they wore the new uniforms from Babylon 5's second season.
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So he did. My memory seems to have turned monochrome. Next thing you know I'll be remembering him in a hat and calling people 'doll' a lot. 8)
The need for a Colonel rank for ground forces makes sense, especially if there were no GROPO captains, only Majors and below. . . Not sure what would happen if a Colonel transferred divisions for some reason (it seems unlikely however), I guess he'd become a Captain. The whole situation would be a lot easier if Ryan had been a Commander or even a Captain. . . Or had had a brown uniform on!
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I'd think that transferring between ground and space divisions would happen only rarely. For one thing, there's a whole lot of different training required. I suppose that EarthForce could include some cross-training programs, but that seems more of a waste of efficiency.
I forgot that Krantz wore brown... didn't General Richard Franklin and his aide also wear brown? Perhaps:
Blue = Space Navy Grey = Space Combat/Security Brown = Ground Combat
Interestingly, I seem to recall that ALL of the dress uniforms (Sinclair and Sheridan especially) and most of the General uniforms were grey...
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quote:Originally posted by Spike: It could also be an error, considering other uniforms goofs. Krantz should have worn the old uniform from the B5 pilot movie and in the TV movie "In the Beginning", which was set during the Minbari war, they wore the new uniforms from Babylon 5's second season.
There's confusing use of punctuation marks there, but I think you mean that both "Babylon Squared" and "In the Beginning" used the "leather strap" version of the uniform, introduced in "Midnight on the Firing Line", as oppossed to the earlier version seen in "The Gathering". As far as I recall, the uniforms stayed the same at the start of the second season (or maybe the badges changed. I can't quite remember).
Anyway, considering that this "mistake" has been done at least twice, I'd tend to consider that "The Gathering" was the mistake with regards to uniforms, and that EA uniforms DID have leather straps before B5 was built. Maybe there was a galactic wide leather shortage, and the uniforms seen in "The Gathering" were a temporary remedy.
Or perhaps the same wierd parralex distruption beam that caused Delenn to look Really Fucking Weird also caused the uniforms to look different.
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I don't know. At first I thought Power DVD caused this interesting "effect" but my TNG captures are ok. Maybe something's wrong with the B5 DVDs.
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it would really be hard to resize the pics though, lending to this lengthy discussion.
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You're right, I forgot about the wings being added.
As for why the images are stretched, WinDVD always stretches mine sideways when I take a grab. As Mike said, if only there were some way of resizing a picture...
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Watching "GROPOS" last night, I see that General Richard "Firestorm" Franklin & his aide (the ubiquitous "Frank") both wore olive drab.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: You're right, I forgot about the wings being added.
As for why the images are stretched, WinDVD always stretches mine sideways when I take a grab. As Mike said, if only there were some way of resizing a picture...
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