Lieutenant J.G.... gah.

[TEH BABA]

o2 and 03 are automatic promotions.

 

[Timo]

...Not in Starfleet, though. Harry Kim stayed Ensign for seven years - but plenty of people of let's say advanced age wore the single pip in TNG and DS9, too. And Picard in the "Tapestry" timeline didn't make it past O-2 because he showed no exceptional ability or ambition.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Basil]

It would be quite atypical for a nurse in the 1960s to be a commissioned officer, even if she or he had a solid background in "bio-research". Timo Saloniemi

Nurses can have rank -- a professor of mine had been a captain and U.S. Army nurse in 'Nam. Of course, Chapel could conceivably be a nurse practitioner, though they generally have a Ph.D., but either way she must have been earning an M.D. while serving aboard the Enterprise.

 

[EEE]

It would be quite atypical for a nurse in the 1960s to be a commissioned officer,

Nurses can have rank -- a professor of mine had been a captain and U.S. Army nurse in 'Nam.

My son is currently a Captain and a Nurse. But it is still atypical as you've quoted.

 

[TEH BABA]

...Not in Starfleet, though. Harry Kim stayed Ensign for seven years - but plenty of people of let's say advanced age wore the single pip in TNG and DS9, too. And Picard in the "Tapestry" timeline didn't make it past O-2 because he showed no exceptional ability or ambition.

Timo Saloniemi

Old guys are probably limited duty officers.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Is Chapel even in Starfleet? No rank. Different uniform. Modified insignia. We never saw her in the official Starfleet woman's uniform. Could she be a civilian working with Starfleet ,who joined Starfleet later?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Is Chapel even in Starfleet? No rank. Different uniform. Modified insignia. We never saw her in the official Starfleet woman's uniform. Could she be a civilian working with Starfleet ,who joined Starfleet later?

Christine wore a Starfleet uniform in TOS.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Is Chapel even in Starfleet? No rank. Different uniform. Modified insignia. We never saw her in the official Starfleet woman's uniform. Could she be a civilian working with Starfleet ,who joined Starfleet later?

Christine wore a Starfleet uniform in TOS.

Not the black collared one worn by everyone else. Seemed to be a slightly different cut as well. Maybe different material.

 

[Timo]

Good point! We don't see that wide-collared dress elsewhere, now do we?

However, in TAS, Chapel continues to wear that distinct style, but is assuredly a Starfleet Lieutenant with the associated rank braid and (never before or after seen) ID card.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Nerys Myk]

Good point! We don't see that wide-collared dress elsewhere, now do we?

However, in TAS, Chapel continues to wear that distinct style, but is assuredly a Starfleet Lieutenant with the associated rank braid and (never before or after seen) ID card.

Timo Saloniemi

I assume she's wearing a nurses uniform, similar to the doctors "smock" McCoy sometimes wears. By TAS she might have joined Starfleet and was allowed to add a rank stripe to the uniform.

 

[Timo]

It would be a bit odd to add a rank braid to a civilian uniform!

I can totally buy it that Chapel's TOS dress would be a special "smock" of sorts, though. Just like McCoy's t-shirt, it has sleeves that are too short for regular rank braid, perhaps because the cuffs would get on the way during intricate work. Possibly the "sterilization fields" of TOS work better on bare skin?

In TAS, the sleeves seem to grow to full length, though, while the blue collar is retained.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Nerys Myk]

I belive I've seen Nurses in the Military wear their rank pins on white Nurses uniforms.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I belive I've seen Nurses in the Military wear their rank pins on white Nurses uniforms.

Here I'm thinking of Terry Farrell's appearance on Quantum Leap. She was a nurse, and a Navy Lieutenant. Can't remember what she wore, though, or if she had any insignia (her rank was referred to in dialogue).

 

[Timo]

...Just out of curiosity, have we ever seen rank braid on the blue female uniforms? Was there some particular reason it was not applied on those, when the red and gold ones readily sported the braid? I'm thinking of Lieutenant Masters from "The Alternative Factor", sadly braidless, but there could have been examples to the contrary.

That episode shows that they had at least three examples of the black-collared blue dress available, BTW, with somewhat varying cuts and sleeve lengths.

Timo Saloniemi