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From: dunn@kvue.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Shirts and Insignia (some :^), I could't help it)
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Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 00:52:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 29 00:52:46 1985
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I'm also relativly new to this net.  However, I've been "into" 
STAR TREK for many years; and most recently the STAR TREK ROLE             
PLAYING GAME.  Besides being a satanic( <:^)  ) role playing 
game made by the FASA corporation, it(the game) also explains             
many of the changes in the STAR TREK universe.  These explainations
are supposedly of good reliability due to the fact that the 
game designers consulted the "movers and the shakers" of STAR TREK.

Therefore, the reason that we see STARFLEET personnel in many          
of the movies wearing the ENTERPRISE symbol, an A with a circle 
around it, is because when the ENTERPRISE, the only remaining ship              of the CONSTITUTION class ships, came back to EARTH for refitting the 
"powers that be" in the STARFLEET HIGH COUNCIL decided to do away         
with the individual ship insignias and use just the ENTERPRISE     
insignia as a general logo for representing the entire fleet.

Moreover, (sorry about all the transition words) the rank of the 
individual is now recognized by the small "medal-type looking thing"
that is on the left chest area, pinned to a strip of colored cloth.

By the way, that colored cloth is how the individual is destinguished
in what brank of the ship that he/she works in.  Much the same way that 
the old color of the uniform distinguished the command personnel from  
the medical from the engineer people.

If for some bizzare reason anyone wants to know more about the 
insignia and uniform changes you can do one of several things:
       		1) GO to your local gaming shop and buy the 
		   STAR TREK ROLE PLAYING GAME reference update
		   unreasonably priced at $12.00.

		2) ACCOST any gamer that you may know and ask him/her 
		   for their copy of the reference manual.

		3) PUT your questions up on the net and more than 
		   likely a friendly informed source will answer.

That's all for now I have to go get a fix of TRAVELLER, yet another 
sci-fi game.


			From the tower of Geddy on the isle of
			Lifeson in the sea of Peart.

				Ray Dunn

"Everything works on a STARSHIP of a reason."


                    Ray Dunn, KVUE-TV  Austin, TX   (dunn@kvue.uucp)
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