I was just going to post this! I watched it yesterday. Yes, Frakes gave a fantastic performance.TNG S06E21 - "Frame of Mind." A paranoid head trip of an episode with a great Frakes performance.
Silicon Avatar. It was kind of disturbing, the way that scientist lady reacted to Data at the end. And WHY didn't Counselor Troi (sitting right there) tell Picard: "Captain, Dr. Marr is mentally unbalanced, she's not going to do what you expect her to do."
Just watched "Arena", and noticed that the staff of the observation post on Cestus III wore the same uniforms and insignia to the staff of the Earth Outposts on the Neutral Zone in "Balance of Terror" (goldish-tan, with a 'comet' insignia)
This lends credence to the insignia theory, based on memo dating December 18, '67, during the TOS filming, that ALL starship personnel should have the Enterprise 'arrowhead' , regardless of ship. I guess all "outpost" personnel had their own uniform (tannish-gold, with 'comet' insignia), and Starbase personnel wore standard red-gold-blue, but with the 'starburst' or 'rose' insignia.
Then there is the one-time ("Charlie X") uniforms of the 'Spacecraft Duty' insignia (Merchant Marines? Support Craft?) which looks like a painting pallette.
Other ships did have different insignias as well. Commodore Decker from the Constellation from "The Doomsday Machine" for instance, or Commodore Leslie from the Lexington in "The Ultimate Computer". And in TMP we see that the insignias on the Epsilon 9 station differ.
And on Enterprise, each ship had it's own unique shoulder patches, probably a nod to the different rank insignias on different Starfleet ships/installations in the original series (which Discovery pretty much eliminated).
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