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They were not supposed to. It was a production error according to one memo from the TOS production. So, there was the Command insignia (flag officers, starbase personal), fleet personnel (the Enterprise delta) and merchant service (The Antares). I know that a lot of fan ideas was that the delta...

The closest to canon we've had on the different insignias is from https://intl.startrek.com/article/starfleet-insignia-explained. The key points are: There are six Starfleet duty insignia used in TOS: Starship Duty Insignia (Fleet personnel emblem) -- Arrowhead or "Delta". Spacecraft Duty...

Maybe it's a translation thing, or considering why would they have independently come up with dividing the galaxy into 4 quadrants, maybe they took it from us. I just googled "kilometre in different languages" and a lot of them just seem like different variations on the original version. Maybe...

It should have been a 20 year journey for Janeway but that new-fangled warp system which somehow squeezed W9.975 out of those tiny nacelles broke on the journey to the Delta Quadrant and no-one on board could fix it :wah:

Dialogue in "Caretaker" says "sustainable cruise velocity of warp 9.975". They had the warp speed charts made for the TNG writers' guide and memos from their tech advisers saying it'd only be 20 years at that speed, but they chose to ignore it.:shrug:

He offered the company ORDER! His were the superior memos!

Which never made sense, because it ignored the fact that other ships and starbases already used that insignia in TOS, as seen with the bar patrons in "Court Martial" and Commodore Mendez's secretary in "The Menagerie" (and also the Defiant crew in "The Tholian Web," though this was hard to see...

The crew of the Antares didn't get the memo, either. Boy was Captain Ramart embarrassed when he beamed over to the Enterprise! :alienblush: Kirk even rubbed it in by wearing the newest in captain fashion apparel: the green wrap around. Nice. :techman:

Oh, yeah, forget the episode, but there was one, Huh. I think that went out the door when the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s were reaffirmed to be part of the world's history after the real life timeframe came and went; the Star Trek franchise chose to keep its own continuity over representing...

ENT also had holographic target practice in the 22nd Century. Actually that isn't a contradiction of the memo, as the delta badge was only for Starship Crew, not all of Starfleet. The memo specifically calls it the 'Starship emblem' There were meant to be different badges for different...

It was widely adopted in TOS. Starbase personnel and the crew of the Defiant wore the arrowhead. There was a memo about Decker and the Exeter's badges being wrong. I believe it is in Inside Star Trek by Justman and Solow.

Just to let you know, leading with this is not a good start. So what you're saying is "If you like it you are wrong". It's not a 1960s show and shouldn't look like one. The delta was supposed to be used on all starfleet ships back in TOS, showing other ships with their own badges was a...

I wouldn't mind being on one of these spaceships... with a holodeck.

Depends on what one considers world building to be. I think there was a great amount of world building in Star Trek, so much that it was one of the biggest appeals of the show to me. I really feel like I could live in the Star Trek universe if I woke up there tomorrow. I think the various...

Phasers? Fair enough. Frankly, I think that this's a case where on-screen presentation (canon material) outweighs behind the scenes intent (non-canon stuff), and since onscreen the use of unique patches is far more consistent than the use of a universal patch (only a couple of instances, if...

And, yet, a memo from one of the producers confirms this. So, yes, it does fall under "production error." Secondly, in "Charlie X" the crew were merchant service, not Starfleet regulars. Court Martial is the Starfleet Command emblem, as with the Ultimate Computer and Menagerie. We also see...

Straight from the Great Bird and his entourage:

:sigh: I wasn't talking about the Antares. Just so we're on the same page: Tracey was a starship captain, as was Decker (who held the post of starship captain with the rank of commodore). The CMO of the Exeter also...wait for ... served aboard a starship, namely the Exeter. There really isn't...

Actually, not necessarily as it specifically validates the original use of the "Hoof" insignia on the grounds that the Antares crew were not "starship crew" but something different (Material Supply Command would seem likely) that may or may not even be part of Starfleet (but is certainly part of...

Oh for sure. It's just speculation. The only thing we can say for sure, as @Maurice points out, is that the delta/arrowhead symbolizes "starship crew."