Rank insignia

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caseOrange said:

Are those insignia just for the new series, or for TOS also?

No, the insignia posted above are for the new series.

There was never a clear indicator of rank insignia in the original series which kind of made it all the more confusing. For example, (in The Lost Warrior) how did Bootes know that Apollo was a Captain? I mean, his insignia is exactly the same as other warriors like Starbuck, Boomer, and Giles who are all Lieutenants. Another example: (in The Magnificent Warriors) the character named Kyle identifies Starbuck as a Lieutenant without being introduced to him. How would he have known that Starbuck was a Lieutenant unless he was told? Besides, the shoulder patch and the collar insignia design only denotes the Battlestar you serve aboard, just like the distinct collar insignia and patches worn by the Pegasus' crew.

Now, enlisted crew members aboard the Galactica could be easily identified because their tunics or shirts didn't have the gold trim over the checkered trim like officers did and they didn't wear collar insignia (example: Corporal Coma in Gun on Ice Planet Zero). Typically, Colonial Warriors that ranked above Lieutenant wore 2 collar pins on their tunics and jackets with the exception of flight sargeants like Jolly who also wore 2 collar pins. One thing I never understood was how in Saga of a Star World, we see Athena dressed in the tan uniform of a Colonial Warrior complete with the jacket and she wears two collar pins. Later, she appears with the blue bridge officer uniform, but this time she only wears one collar pin. This inconsistency in TOS was never explained and I don't recall ever hearing what rank she held. Bridge officers who wore blue tunics like Omega wore only 1 collar pin, but Rigel who was supposed to be a "flight corporal" wore a tan uniform and only wore 1 collar pin. Nevertheless, whether they wore 1 collar pin or two, it was always the the same inverted US Army M.I. branch pin used. The only difference was that they were silver toned for the blue tunics or gold toned for the tan.