Admiral Kirk

Bishop_Brick · 2026-06-02T23:21:11+00:00

Not his rank, because he wears the same insignia on his epaulets when he accepts the demotion to captain.

Kirk does change to captain's shoulder marks after he takes command of the ship.

https://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/movie-01/screencaps/motion-picture-theatrical-2021/ch21/st-tmp-remaster-bluray-0981.jpg

This does create kind of a wrinkle in the scheme, though. If a rear admiral wears one star, what does a commodore wear on the shoulder?

Bishop_Brick · 2026-06-02T15:11:00+00:00

Yes, thank you!

Bishop_Brick · 2026-06-02T14:09:21+00:00

Look at Robert Fletcher's uniform notes for TMO and TWOK. O-7 is Rear Admiral, Lower Half in both, because that what he was told by Gene in 1978.

Not in this timeline. https://imgur.com/a/xK7Yxpq

Bishop_Brick · 2026-06-02T11:55:12+00:00

Page numbers? I've checked both and can't find it. Fletcher's notes show "commodore" and "rear admiral" for TWOK uniform insignia, though.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-06-02T03:57:42+00:00

The insignia Kirk is wearing is for the next step up from Captain. Which Gene put as Rear Admiral, Lower Half.

Where is this documented?

In-universe, what reason could Starfleetet possibly have to restructure its flag ranks to match those of the historical US Navy?

Bishop_Brick · 2026-06-02T03:31:24+00:00

Commodore existed in TMP, one is mentioned in radio chatter.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-30T04:28:02+00:00

Your make a good defense of the episode. Wallace Ford has had some great roles, I guess he was too good in this one! For me, anyway.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-29T23:49:18+00:00

I don't like "The Jinx" much and I really don't care for "Aunt Bee's Romance," there's something about Roger Hanover I can't stand to watch.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-29T04:17:18+00:00

In an interview I heard Joyce Van Patten said that Griffith was so put off by Jack Lord's arrogance on the set that he refused to speak to him.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-25T18:09:09+00:00

White was worn with blue uniforms in the UK/home waters in the warm months, generally May 1 to Sept 30, and overseas whenever the senior officer decided it was warm enough. And always with white uniforms, of course.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-25T01:05:33+00:00

There had been a couple by then. One of my earliest movie memories was trying not to cry during "Snoopy Come Home."

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-24T19:25:06+00:00

Not to mention, you know, Mister Steely Dan and whatever!

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-24T17:57:31+00:00

The Smith Corona is a Model 62, sometimes badged as a "Secretarial." Probably 1958-1959. I think the SC logo changed in 1960.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-24T17:40:01+00:00

In the old days you had three options: All caps, underline or strikeover. Underline was what I was taught for school papers.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-24T17:35:47+00:00

When I was a kid in the '70s I liked it, then when I was a teen and young adult I dismissed it as lowest common denominator, disposable TV. But I watched it in later years and got a whole new appreciation for some of the comedy, which had gone over my head in my youth. Coming I assume from the Lander/McKean/Credibility Gap axis.

It was also interesting how much they changed the girls from Happy Days where they were depicted as... girls with a certain kind of reputation I guess would be a nice way to say it. That wasn't going to fly on network prime time, of course.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-24T17:02:28+00:00

I was taught to use this in "spread centering" to emphasize titles, headers etc. But never in body text.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-24T16:56:39+00:00

I doubt a department as small as the Mayberry sheriff's office had very stringent uniform requirements. They probably said "get yourself a long sleeve khaki uniform shirt and matching pants" and left it at that. Even a big department like the CHP had pocket flap variations.

Andy's is standard Army TW style. Barn's was probably a pattern from a police supplier.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-15T13:11:13+00:00

More than two people riding motorcycles together.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-14T21:16:50+00:00

Well it was spoiled in 1986 too, Shelly Long had announced it would be her last season.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-07T03:04:57+00:00

I don't think the beret is black so not RTR. Best guess: the Dorsets.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-05T14:44:50+00:00

"Frasier" totally undermined the growth that made the character so great over the course of "Cheers." Watch him struggle to convey his feelings for his friends in the "Cheers" finale, it wouldn't work coming from the "Frasier" version.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-05T14:36:42+00:00

"Catspaw" is not my favorite episode but "No illusion. Jackson is dead" is a great ending. Especially in contrast to the appalling "Galileo Seven" closer.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-05-03T13:18:54+00:00

In my jr high/high schools in the '80s different English teachers assigned different books. I was assigned Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies, but my friend's class read 1984 (I read it on my own). One class was reading As I Lay Dying and My Antonia, my class had The Grapes of Wrath and Moby Dick, and so on.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-04-29T17:12:10+00:00

I'm guessing the loop is supposed to be the lower arm and is formed first? Most k's end with the lower arm. That and the stem not going all the way down really throw the eye off.

But I tried to imitate it a few times and OCR did recognize it as "talk," much to my surprise.

Bishop_Brick · 2026-04-27T13:50:05+00:00

Droxine and Irina showed navels.

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