What is your favorite uniform badge?

[Shawnster]

Given that all previous and subsequent commodores of the era did wear a different badge to regular starship personnel, I'm inclined to favour the notion that Decker not wearing the delta would be an exception to the policy in any case.

Whether he should have been wearing the "starburst" insignia otherwise worn by commodores and the occasional admiral during the period or, whether as the startrek.com article suggests, he has an assignment that justifies a different insignia is less clear.

I prefer the idea that the various badges represented different branches in Starfleet. The Defiant crew in "Tholian Web" wore the Delta, and so did the staff of Memory Alpha. My head canon, based on the discussions I linked above, is that everyone wearing the Delta belonged to the same division or branch.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I prefer the idea that the various badges represented different branches in Starfleet. The Defiant crew in "Tholian Web" wore the Delta, and so did the staff of Memory Alpha. My head canon, based on the discussions I linked above, is that everyone wearing the Delta belonged to the same division or branch.

I would prefer if they used various different Badges to represent different services within the UFP.

You can't have EVERYTHING depend on the UFP's Space Navy AKA "StarFleet".

There needs to be different services that cover different aspects.

Not everything should just fall into the problem sphere where you send the Navy to solve it.

That's like sending the US Navy to solve a problem dealing with land.

Or US Navy dealing with CyberWarfare.

There needs to be different branches for specific domains.

 

[fireproof78]

You can't have EVERYTHING depend on the UFP's Space Navy AKA "StarFleet".

Well...you can, it's just not effective.

That's like sending the US Navy to solve a problem dealing with land.

That's called the Marines.

Or US Navy dealing with CyberWarfare.

Um...

 

[Shamrock Holmes]

That's called the Marines.

Or the Seebees.

Or the SEALs (who definitely should have analogues in Starfleet, though I'm ambivalent on the Marines).

Depending on the nature of the "problem".

 

[UssGlenn]

Or the SEALs (who definitely should have analogues in Starfleet, though I'm ambivalent on the Marines).

The existence of Colonel West in TUC implies the existence of a ground force of some kind.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Well...you can, it's just not effective.

That's why you have specialized division.

That's called the Marines.

The Army still needs to exist to hold territory and to proceed with objectives.

The Marines are more of a light recon / expeditionary force.

Um...

US Cyber Command exists for a reason.
Every Physical Branch will need it's own IT staff & Cyber Defense & Computer Maintenance specialists amongst it's engineering divisions.

 

[fireproof78]

That's why you have specialized division.


The Army still needs to exist to hold territory and to proceed with objectives.

The Marines are more of a light recon / expeditionary force.

US Cyber Command exists for a reason.
Every Physical Branch will need it's own IT staff & Cyber Defense & Computer Maintenance specialists amongst it's engineering divisions.

Humor...it is a difficult concept. It is not logical.

I generally agree with you but I cannot resist a good joke here with nonspecific terminology

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Humor...it is a difficult concept. It is not logical.

I generally agree with you but I cannot resist a good joke here with nonspecific terminology

^_^

in my 26th century head Canon, the UFP gets to show off the rest of the Armed Services besides StarFleet.
StarFleet is there, the pride of the services since it's the literal glue that binds everybody together and ranked #1 in popularity of services within UFP polling, while every other service falls behind StarFleet in terms of popularity. StarFleet is the one service that everybody realistically needs more than any other.

 

[fireproof78]

^_^

in my 26th century head Canon, the UFP gets to show off the rest of the Armed Services besides StarFleet.
StarFleet is there, the pride of the services since it's the literal glue that binds everybody together and ranked #1 in popularity of services within UFP polling, while every other service falls behind StarFleet in terms of popularity. StarFleet is the one service that everybody realistically needs more than any other.

That and a dollar will get me a bad cup of coffee.

 

[Shamrock Holmes]

The existence of Colonel West in TUC implies the existence of a ground force of some kind.

A force of some kind perhaps, though what sort of force it has been debated several times. Given the context -- Operation Retrieve and the rescue mission from the previous movie -- a relatively small specialist commando unit (likely under Starfleet Security*) tasked with hostile environment operations (ala the Navy SEALs, RM Commandos or FBI HRT) is the only itineration that can be directly implied, and IMO the existence of a direct analogue of the combined arms US Marine Corps is specifically contradicted as a peacetime cadre within Starfleet, though something of the sort would be a logical starting point for a wartime-only Federation reserve force drawn from local assets of the individual member worlds.

*Although Bob Fletcher wasn't involved with either movie, his Starfleet Office of the Inspector General/Starfleet Security Special Forces would seem to be a decent starting point.

 

[4Lights]

I really liked the TNG one the best:

That is my fave.

 

[publiusr]

My favorite insignia was the hand releasing a dove from TOS

 

[Geargoose]

TNG

 

[Wingcommanderdarkwolf01]

SNW
DS9/VOY
LD
PRO (the Protostar one)