Admiral ranks
Admiral ranks
I just noticed the admiral ranks are listed as one star, two star, etc. Wouldn't it make more sense to have them as say, one pip Commodore (or Rear Admiral), two as Rear Admiral, three as Vice Admiral, four as Admiral, and five as Fleet Admiral??? Just an idea.
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Re: Admiral ranks
1 star admirals are ranked as rear admirals. 2 and 3 star admirals are just given star ranks and I imagin 5 star will be reffered to as fleet admirals.
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Re: Admiral ranks
Then shouldn't it be 1 pip admirals? No stars on starfleet uniforms.....ironicly enough
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and walk like Frankenstein.
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They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
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Teaos
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Re: Admiral ranks
So you want everyone to be refered to as the number of stars?
I see no problem keeping it as it is with 1 and 5 star admirals called rear and fleet and everyone else star numbers.
I see no problem keeping it as it is with 1 and 5 star admirals called rear and fleet and everyone else star numbers.
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Re: Admiral ranks
Could always have four be Fleet Admiral and five be Flag Admiral.
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Re: Admiral ranks
Nothing wrong with it, but an idea I had.
They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
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Re: Admiral ranks
I think the issue is that we're using the work star and there's no stars. I'm fairly sure the names come from the encyclopedia.
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Re: Admiral ranks
I think it's fine the way it is, personaly.
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Re: Admiral ranks
The Encyclopedia just lsits them as 1 star, 2 star, etc. If TNG has used vice admiral and rear admiral and fleet admiral on screen I'd be happy to adopt them.
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Re: Admiral ranks
I thought they did. Vice Admiral Hanson for example. Honestly though, I could be wrong. It was just an idea.
They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
Re: Admiral ranks
Rear Admiral Norah Satie too - possibly in the Drumhead, and definitely in AGT when Picard is just taking command of the E-D, and says something like 'by order of Rear Admiral Norah Satie I am to take command of the E-D'.
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Re: Admiral ranks
What we are using comes from the site. On the site it's in green, which means it comes from a backstage source. That would be the a TM or Encyclopaedia etc. That page is yet to be converted into the database so we don't have a reference for it at the moment. The point remains that's the way it works in Trek so that's the way we stay.
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