FACT TREK—Emblem-atic: The History of Starfleet Insignia
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I updated the blog post to address these notes. Thanks to you both. I mentioned you in the Acknowledgements.
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“Flying A” was also a chain of gas stations in SoCal (I don’t know where else) at least into the mid-60’s. I remember the logo from when I was a wee lad in Riverside.
ETA: Until 1966, says guy on the internet, when Flying A was acquired by Phillips 66, and the stations were all rebranded.
ETA: Until 1966, says guy on the internet, when Flying A was acquired by Phillips 66, and the stations were all rebranded.
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You're welcome, and thank you!
You mean this:
The history seems a bit more complicated than "says guy on the internet" indicates. As when different oil companies were bought and stations were rebranded regionally. Here's a 1969 commercial with the Flying A brand.
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Every time I turn around I have to update this... 
Star Trek Prodigy's recent video clip reveals holo Janeway wearing a simpler Flying A badge with no backing shape, which appears to be split by the left half of a command division star. I just tweeted this and updated our blog post to include it.
Star Trek Prodigy's recent video clip reveals holo Janeway wearing a simpler Flying A badge with no backing shape, which appears to be split by the left half of a command division star. I just tweeted this and updated our blog post to include it.
Every time I turn around I have to update this...
Star Trek Prodigy's recent video clip reveals holo Janeway wearing a simpler Flying A badge with no backing shape, which appears to be split by the left half of a command division star. I just tweeted this and updated our blog post to include it.
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Hey, Maurice, do you think you'll update the article with the information from Star Trek Beyond with the first use of a simplified Flying A on the Franklin badge? That's interesting from both an in-universe concept (possibly it's first use as a starship badge) and production standpoint (as a bridge between Berman era badges and the modern, Discovery era take).
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I thought it was because he just took Greg Jein's original list from an old T-Negative fanzine. Not saying that I agree with Jein either, just that that was Okuda's logic behind making them all Connies. And if it actually says 'NCC-1864' for one of the ships on that chart, then Jein was wrong anyway.
Disagreeing with someone's posts ≠ dislike.
We didn't get into every Flying A in the Abrams-produced films because there are so many of them, just as we didn't put in every badge seen in Discovery. Finding decent screenshots of these things can be time consuming, so if people can point us to such it makes adding them easier.
The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship, by Gregory Jein, April 1975
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Interesting article, thank you.
Could be worth mentioning how discovery bisected the delta adding a vertical line, something that was later carried over to Picard.
Could be worth mentioning how discovery bisected the delta adding a vertical line, something that was later carried over to Picard.
I don't see vertically bisected deltas in Picard. I see the split backing shapes we mentioned, but when I next revise the article I'll mention the split on the Disco badges.
Thanks for that link. When Jein wrote that article in 1975, he was relying solely on what he could make out on a (presumably small) standard-definition TV set from the time. The screencaps I’ve seen from TOS-R’s ‘Court Martial’ are a hundred times clearer, and I’m seeing lots of ‘8’s’ where he saw ‘6’s.’
Compared to the AGT/Endgame badge, the gap between the back plates was moved to the same area as the split is in the Discovery delta.
Actually, to looks like they just made the left vertical bar wider and narrowed the gap (plus trimmed off the parts above the A. I'd prefer not to even suggest a connection for something which might well be mere coincidence.
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