Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!lll-crg!ucdavis!ucbvax!decvax!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: @#@#** YOUR SUBJECT HERE **#@#@ Message-ID: <911@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 20:43:00 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.911 Posted: Thu Dec 5 20:43:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 10-Dec-85 06:10:17 EST References: <380@ssc-vax.UUCP> <241@kvue.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: net.startrek Distribution: net Organization: Cleveland Public Access UNIX, Cleveland, OH Lines: 30 Summary: @#@#** SUMMARY **#@#@ Expires: Quoted from <241@kvue.UUCP> ["Re: Shirts and Insignia (some :^), I could't help it)"], by dunn@kvue.UUCP (Ray Dunn)... +--------------- | 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. +--------------- "The new humans among Earth's population had become increasingly critical of Starfleet's cost, of Starfleet's aims, and of its value. Admiral Nogura could not avoid seeing immediately the value of a living symbol, a carefully designed hero figure who could awe the impressionable and confront the critics with actual experiences out there... (Footnote: ...the Enterprise was the only vessel to successfully complete its five-year mission....)" -- Gene Roddenberry, STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE [novelisation] Given this, a minor second step in impressing everyone with Starfleet would be to adopt the Enterprise's insignia for *everyone*, as a reminder of what Starfleet had been able to do. -- Lord Charteris (thurb) ncoast!allbery@Case.CSNet (ncoast!allbery%Case.CSNet@CSNet-Relay.ARPA) ..decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!allbery (..ncoast!tdi2!root for business) 6615 Center St., Mentor, OH 44060 (I moved) --Phone: +01 216 974 9210 CIS 74106,1032 -- MCI MAIL BALLBERY (WARNING: I am only a part-time denizen...)