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Posts: 22 04/15/09 19:14:04	Tags : None Was watching classic trek episode "court martial" the other day and noticed a few other 'goof-ups'. The first was, Kirk shows up in the commodore's office wearing his green wrap. Cut to a social type party going on and he enters the room with McCoy and both are in standard tunics. Cut to Kirk back in the Commodore's office -presumably the next day- and he once again wears his casual wrap. ...So...Kirk goes casual for meetings with the brass/boss, and goes standard dress for social 'off-duty' functions...hmm... (most likely nothing more than an editing error). But both Spock and Ben Finney are addressed with the wrong title. The computer IDs Spock as "Lieutenant Commander", and Kirk does the same for Ben Finney, yet when you see them both, they both clearly wear 2 solid rank stripes. I was expecting to see Finney with one solid line and one broken line above, which would be consistent with the title of 'LCdr', and yet...
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Posts: 489 04/15/09 19:41:33 Owner	I always noticed that too.. What they should have done is made the dashes in silver denoting JG..I never understood even in "Devil In The Dark" Security Chief Giotto was wearing commander rank and I think there were a few other episodes where the BG characters were wearing hi ranks also....They should have had Tim Gunn design them
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Posts: 11 06/24/09 13:30:51	Joe Tormolen wears a single "dashed" line in The Naked Time - it's never definitively identified as Lieutenant, JG but that would be the implication. As to the other characters, I always guessed that we saw a lot of Lieutenants and full Commanders simply because single or double full stripes were easier for the wardrobe to sew onto the sleeves than having to sit down and individually stitch on each "dash" of the more junior ranks...! "They were in the wrong place at the wrong time - naturally, they became heroes."
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Posts: 525 06/24/09 20:47:59 Owner	I'd love to agree with you Blue...BUT the BG characters wore left overs...Back in the 60's and with the budget it would make no sense to add braid..I think..and I'll have to go through my files, that one BG character had Scotty's tunic on....He held the rank of LTCDR...Interesting that Chekov being an ensign sits at the adult table....
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Posts: 12 07/03/09 14:42:43	I agree: TV shows will regularly recycle costumes from major characters to minor characters to extras - no doubt about that! TNG / DS9 / Voy / Ent all did the same. I guess my point was, though, that not ALL the background costumes were recycles (most likely they just had a "stock" of spares and costumes would rarely be made for individuals apart from specific guest cast) but if you look at the majority of the cuff stripes in the background, there are rarely any with "dashed" stripes - and those that do appear are, as you say, likely recycled from main cast costumes. "They were in the wrong place at the wrong time - naturally, they became heroes."
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