J.T.B. wrote:
US Navy practice until the early 1970's was for commanders and above to be addressed with their rank, lieutenant commanders and below (down to WO-1) to be addressed as "Mister (last name)," or mrs. or miss, or as "doctor" or "nurse" or "chaplain," "father" &c. as appropriate. As we know, Spock was considered a LCdr when the series began, despite his rank stripes, so "Mr. Spock" would be OK by USN tradition.
--Justin
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Until the early 70's nothing. It's still common practice now.
Timo wrote:
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US Navy practice until the early 1970's was for commanders and above to be addressed with their rank, lieutenant commanders and below (down to WO-1) to be addressed as "Mister (last name)"
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Hmm... addressed by whom? Everybody, or fellow officers, or superior officers?
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Generally anyone that is in a usual working relationship with said officer. Some scrub E-2 from another Department would probably call him "Sir" or "Lieutenant Jones", the same E-2 in his own Division would probably call him "Mister Jones".
J.T.B. wrote:
Everybody officially, though juniors could use "sir" instead. I'll look up the full rules later today.
--Justin
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IIRC, it's not in the rules, it's more Naval tradition.