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      I kekked at the lieutenant and how it’s said in the US and in the UK, with the “leftenant” one being used when the full pip is on the left

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    Sub Commander? Is Starfleet in charge of operating submarines on water planets?

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      Probably memory alpha is the best bet. The actual on screen canon is kind of slippery though. For example, O’Brien’s title of “Chief” is never really clarified very much. (He is potentially the first enlisted member of Starfleet to get any level of characterization.)

      And every series likes to redesign the uniforms.

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    There should be a wag the dog story about a captain taken hostage who uses his pins in rare communications to morse-code the coordinates to the viewer while the enemy doesn’t know the ranks and only occasionally notices that the pins aren’t the same as yesterday.

    Only for the other side to subsequentially promote them to a Decorated Grade-A Admiral of the Quadrant in Chief 8-days-in-8-hours Research and Medical Engineer of Friday Night Alamo Roleplaying and the Borg Pong Champion of the Star Fleet making them 16-pin worthy to speed things up.

    Subsequently inspiring a drinking game of repeating made-up ranks with adding another one among ensigns.

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    TIL Commode Door is a rank. Is that role tasked with containing the dark humours?

    Inb4: yes, I know it’s “commodore.”

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    The more I look, the better it gets.

    Super-ensign

    That almost sounds legit. I can see someone thinking “well, they’re not promotion material, but they’re also far-and-away the best Ensign we have on the whole ship…”

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    I saw this earlier today, quickly glanced at it and didn’t realise it was so much satire. P in Morse code haha the commode door