Shipwide Assigned Insignia Transition To Delta Shield For All
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I always liked the bit in the Reeves-Stevens novel Federation, where Zephram Cochrane is explaining the broad strokes of how his warp theory works to someone, and makes a sketch in the dirt of what the warped space field looks like. it's roughly in the shape of the Starfleet delta.
Not as bad as what I read one time...don't remember where...but supposedly Captain Archer was signing his name somewhere and the "A" in Archer was the shape of the Starfleet arrowhead, and that was the origin of the insignia. So glad that didn't make it to canon.
Not as bad as what I read one time...don't remember where...but supposedly Captain Archer was signing his name somewhere and the "A" in Archer was the shape of the Starfleet arrowhead, and that was the origin of the insignia. So glad that didn't make it to canon.
Woof. They tried SO hard to make Archer oh-so-important, didn't they? But that's really the sort of thing you just have to let the fans decide for themselves.
Me, too. I also like the idea that he was human but from Alpha Centauri - but I've let that one go.I always liked the bit in the Reeves-Stevens novel Federation, where Zephram Cochrane is explaining the broad strokes of how his warp theory works to someone, and makes a sketch in the dirt of what the warped space field looks like. it's roughly in the shape of the Starfleet delta.
Well, hey, T.E. Lawrence wasn't from Arabia.
Not as bad as what I read one time...don't remember where...but supposedly Captain Archer was signing his name somewhere and the "A" in Archer was the shape of the Starfleet arrowhead, and that was the origin of the insignia. So glad that didn't make it to canon.
This is just going from my admittedly-feeble memory, so I may be *waaaaayyyy* off-base, but...
I seem to have a recollection of someone claiming to be an insider at Paramount, who was dropping details about the new show back when Enterprise was still in development. I *think* this was one of his/her claims: Archer would supposedly put his signature on the dedication plaque (or maybe at the side of an airlock? Recollection is fuzzy...) when he first came aboard the Enterprise, and the "A" in Archer would be the shape of the arrowhead that would eventually become the Starfleet symbol.
Of course, like many of the other claims this person made, this never came to pass.
I can't remember where I actually read this, but I'm thinking it may have been here, because this is one of the handful of Trek sites I've kept coming back to over the years, although I would have only been lurking at the time. If it was here, I'm imagining all the threads in question have been pruned by now. Which is too bad, because it would be kinda funny to go back and read them all now...
And as I said, the arrowhead was (barely) visible on ENT as part of the enlisted crewmembers' rating patches:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Starfleet_uniform_(22nd_century)#Examples_of_rank_insignia
Interestingly, it resembles the arrowhead-and-circle design used in the 2270s-90s.
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