Star Trek pip guide

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• mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Apprently, after voyager returned, the slang term “Kimming” became common for getting your first pip.

  If you were passed over for promotion, it was called “getting Harry’ed.”

  Fun fact : Harry Kim is the most “Harry Kimmed” officer in starfleet history.

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  • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “I’m Kimming, Harry.” A phrase not heard by Harry Kim.

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    • hansl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “You’re a Kimmard, Harry!” - Space Hagrid

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• Narrrz@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  having a rank named for you is literally more recognition than Harry actually got.

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  • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Star Trek: Lower Decks Harry Kim!!

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  • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Grand Admiral Kim of the Terran Empire? Has a certain ring to it. He crosses over from the mirror universe having caught wind of his duplicate’s failure.

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Woah. Given how much I’m standing to attention now, I can only imagine how @Stamets@startrek.website would feel seeing this.

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• negativenull@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Harry Kim Sad

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• BertramDitore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As least Harry gets a pip! The former Marquis are forever stuck with their provisional ranks. These always bugged me…

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  • aeronmelon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Janeway had the authority to promote Starfleet officers under her command, but not the authority to recruit new officers. Hence the “provisional” part. But the situation required it so all the Maquis she integrated wore those alternate pips until Starfleet could ratify and approve them (most, if not all of which, they did.)

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    • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But didn’t she recruit Tom Paris? Or did she just “restore” his rank of Lt? If she had the authority to restore a criminal’s rank, surely she would have had the authority to recruit, either way.

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  • eva_sieve@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If it makes you feel better, Captain Chakotay had normal pips by the time the Protostar was commissioned. Guess Janeway just didn’t want to grant ranks away from Starfleet proper.

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    • BertramDitore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I just always imagined an awkward conversation between Janeway and some new species she had just beamed on board: “so uh, Captain, why do some of your crew have different rank pins?”

      “Oh, you mean the terrorists? Don’t worry about it, they’re fine.”

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  • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ohhhh I was wondering what those strip badges were. Provisional ranks.

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• n3m37h@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Could have been worse, he wasn’t wearing a red shirt

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  • norbert@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It would've been a death sentence.

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    • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It would have been a mercy.

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gold is the new red.

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• Coldgoron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Ill drop you back to Harry Kim so fast your ancestors will feel it Paris” - Janeway , at least once on the trip home.

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• Infynis@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure either one of the recent episodes of Lower Decks, or the episode of TNG with that guy that doesn’t look like Tom Paris, had a minor character that was some kind of junior captain, with three full, and one hollow pip

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• doctorcrimson@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If somebody is acting captain or interim captain then do they still have 3 or do the instantly upgrade to 4?

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  • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Depends on how much time they’ve had, I think? Sometimes Riker holds 4 pips, sometimes he doesn’t. Data never did, despite taking the role of acting captain multiple times.

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