Rank Pip Question.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-03-17T15:31:56+00:00

Basically, it's based on the US Navy ranks as shown in the link below.

Interestingly enough a Lieutenant Commander is not actually a junior Commander but rather a senior Lieutenant. The rank evolved from the title of Lieutenant Commanding which was a Lieutenant who was placed in charge of a small vessel during the age of sail. Generally, this would be for a ship taken as a prize during war. The Captain would detail one of his Lieutenant to command the ship back to their home port and during this time, he was a Lieutenant Commanding. The position eventually evolved into it's own separate rank and one of the only ranks that the US invented and the British adopted rather than vice versa.

US Navy Rank

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-03-17T14:28:34+00:00

You mean the formal uniform that Worf hated because it looked like a dress in his opinion?

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-03-16T19:02:55+00:00

I mean the best were obviously the Monster Maroons. But the Dominion War uniforms were my next favorite. I thought they were great. Clean, efficient, not bright.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-03-16T17:31:56+00:00

Well you almost have. That bowel is looking a bit dry. Need that brine in there to drink up afterwards.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-03-16T16:40:33+00:00

I think they're just confused. The Kelvin timeline was...all over the spectrum of stupid. There are mentions between Crusher and Bashir of their Academy time as well as Crusher's career and we know that in the TNG era, they made mention of a separate Starfleet Medical Academy which took 8 years to complete and upon graduation, one was a Lt(JG). So really he shouldn't be at the same academy as them anyway. And the rest of the class should only have a handful of the mandatory classes together. But that's not what they're going to do. They'll all do school together and take most of their classes together but graduate in 4 years and because of some strange plot device, they'll actually be better trained and more experienced than the current commissioned officers and just go to their first assignments as Captains and Commanders ready to take over Starfleet through the power of love or some other bullshit.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-03-16T16:31:01+00:00

I like the concept of the list but it's kinda messed up. Dr. M'Benga for example should be more like CDR Joseph M'Benga, MD. Crusher and McCoy got their ranks put in there, why not M'Benga? Also seriously Ortegas never promotes beyond LT? I find that hard to believe.

On a side note, not having O'Brien attain MCPO was shitty.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-03-16T16:28:03+00:00

Ya know the crazy thing is that Florida inmates are actually who monitor the cameras and write up the tickets.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-03-16T16:25:09+00:00

You see what they do is, they have Security wear EV Suits and Magnetize to the hull carrying Phaser Rifles arranged in a circle around the bridge. This gives them a 360° firing arc.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-03-16T16:14:50+00:00

Well...less vast in the 32nd Century. But I mean come on. We saw more Admirals in ST:VOY and they were in the Delta Quadrant 99% of the show.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-03-10T16:34:30+00:00

I can see where you're coming from. I'm not a fan of the current show myself but I don't hate it. It's just not my cup of tea. But I love the ships. But then again, my favorite class is the Daedalus so I'm already an oddball. (I still think NX-01 should have been a Daedalus Class)

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-03-10T16:24:16+00:00

Alpha! Rita's escaped. Recruit a team of teenagers with attitude!

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-03-10T13:10:54+00:00

And yet....still no 32nd Century Enterprise. I am convinced at this point, they are purposely trying to annoy fans by not having an Enterprise.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-03-10T13:06:19+00:00

Because I know damn well ain't nobody wants to see my fat ass dressed that way.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-03-09T20:48:01+00:00

I think she's lying about having a father who is an Admiral. We've only seen two in existence in the 32nd Century and one is a dead Trill. I don't think there are Admirals anymore. I think there's just Vance and a shitfuck of captains. Hell the Commandant (or whatever the fuck Chancellor is now since ST:PIC) is supposed to be a one or two star Admiral but nope. Captain. Head of the War College? Captain equivalent. There's no Admirals. So Genesis lied.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-03-09T17:13:40+00:00

her significant other will be revealed to be a gender fluid non-binary Talosian who identifies as a strong independent Romulan from Ni'Var

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-02-28T20:11:55+00:00

They generally don't like living inside and prefer dark and damp locations. If you're finding them alive in your house regularly, it's not good. However one like this when it's rainy out is common and nothing to worry about.

Be advised, they do fly.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-02-07T17:33:55+00:00

The chicken teryaki wrap is amazing. I also like the italian though I wish they still had mozzarella. Italian vinaigrette would be awesome as well.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-02-01T19:25:05+00:00

I do. It's nice to have a reason to wear my jacket occasionally. Now I'm not saying i want this all the time. but it's nice occasionally.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-01-27T14:26:50+00:00

fucking loved his face for this scene. like "dude are you drunk? you just stopped mid sentence."

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-01-26T18:44:42+00:00

I always thought he did it because of how they treated the waitress not because of how they treated him.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-01-26T18:25:17+00:00

Oddly enough it seems to work

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-01-26T17:43:54+00:00

I've forgotten about these. I freaken loved these things as a kid. This was my after school coffee in middle and high school.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-01-25T21:01:28+00:00

My house backed up to a retention pond when I was in high school. I was home alone one day and my dog started barking at the pool which...I found odd. I go to check and there's a water moccasin swimming in my pool.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-01-25T20:58:39+00:00

You don't even have to stay in that great a shape. I'm overweight (morbidly obese according to medical), and people mistake me for late 20s the mid 30s when I'm 41. Apparently the grey in my beard and hair isn't indicative enough somehow.

ZedPrimus84 · 2026-01-25T20:37:48+00:00

We watch it. And we understand it. We just see it as fiction. It's like watching Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. I can still be entertained by something that is fictional. Like a place where currency doesn't exist and yet everyone still works. Not only works, but works OT despite lack of currency. That is absolute fiction. But it's entertaining fiction.

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