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[i]To the very esteemed members of Space Force and other grand poohbahs of the United States government agencies who may have a say in this, I have one question for you: What the heck is wrong with you? I'm talking about the ranks of the Space Force! What are you doing to us? There was no Colonel Kirk; not even in the mirror universe (which is what 2020 feels like at times). Do you know your entertainment space history? Let me show you what I mean. Throughout entertainment history, which precedes actual space flight history by decades, we had captains... "Star Trek" has borrowed so much of its iconic rank symbols from the U.S. military and NASA. When you unveiled the Space Force logo, many immediately saw it as an homage to "Star Trek" (even though our Delta was an homage to the previous military space insignias). Why not borrow back from "Star Trek" and adopt our ranks as well? We took them from the Navy for good reason, even though Gene Roddenberry was a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps. They made better sense when talking about a (space) ship. So wrapping this up, I'm going to say that if you want the public to believe in heroes, that you should adopt the Navy ranks as they are the ones the public is most used to being heroes. So please reconsider and name the Space Force ranks after the U.S. Navy.[/i]
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