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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6068157" data-attributes="member: 92305">Here's a thought: What if the Command Star represents the starring visual effect that a starship makes when it enters warp?If so, maybe the Engineering mark represents a wormhole (not necessarily a bad one, but the bending of space time needed to enter warp). And the Sciences globe either represents scanners and the technology to make warp speed possible (or...possibly, it represents a planetary globe...as in "Strange New Worlds").I think I read one time that even the Star Fleet arrowhead (the Enterprise arrowhead in TOS) had some significance--something like it showing the power curve needed to make the initial jump to warp speed or something....EDIT: Ah..here it is. Good old Googlefu delivers... "In a novelization it is explained that the symbol represents one side mass (one side) vs. the required amount of energy to move that mass (as speed increases as does the energy required to infinity). The bottom curvature represents how warp drive creates a bridge (or shortcut) between these two constants." If this is true, then it's probable that the other assignment insignias also "mean something" and are not just adopted shapes. It would be interesting to speculate. The Cortez, above, is a science vessel. Maybe that shape is a ringed planet, like Saturn. Maybe Saturn is the Cortez's home port? Or, maybe it's another scanner shape, meaning the detection of....??? Maybe it represents a galaxy--it certainly looks like one if you look at the galaxy from the rim inward. Lots of ideas. The Exeter's badge, from an episode of TOS, reminds me of the transporter...mabye it has somethign to do with that.   And that engineering department insignia above in red?  I look at it and think of Newton's Third Law of Motion:  To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.  I think it's the two triangles pointing at each other that makes me think of that.</blockquote>

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