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Originally Posted by Nate the Great
So you're going to argue that most ships had individual emblems, but that for some reason the Cochrane Delta is an exception in that more than one ship used it?
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Keep in mind that I have read
Federation, so it seems perfectly natural to me that it's a special symbol for Starfleet . . . but yes, I think there is an entire continuum from "every ship has its own emblem" to "the delta is the fleetwide standard".
TOS is still the frontier era. A lot of little things can be tried, shaken up, and adopted or discarded. Look at the TNG-VOY era: decades later and uniforms are still in a state of continual flux! So there might be one or two default insignia in Kirk's time, but if a ship has a special mission or the Captain requests it, the crew can have their own emblem.
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