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Star Trek Fans are Not Pleased about the New US Space Force Logo

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday January 26 2020, @01:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the Trekkies dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

CNet:

Someone working for the US Space Force must be a Trekkie. Star Trek fans say a new logo is a direct ripoff of Star Trek's Starfleet Command logo.

President Donald Trump revealed the new logo for the Space Force on Friday via Twitter.

[...]As soon as it was posted, eagle-eyed Star Trek fans responded, pointing out the logo's similarities to the Starfleet Command logo. The arrow, the swirl around the arrow, the star background and text placement are almost identical.

Cultural references and inspirations are only allowed for the right people?

Previously:
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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday January 26 2020, @07:14AM (3 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Sunday January 26 2020, @07:14AM (#948785) Journal

    double dern it -- I guess it's not a bomber.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 26 2020, @03:56PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 26 2020, @03:56PM (#948897)

    Were you looking for the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit [wikipedia.org]?

    • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday January 26 2020, @05:35PM (1 child)

      by hemocyanin (186) on Sunday January 26 2020, @05:35PM (#948923) Journal

      No, the Nighthawk which is described as "ground attack" airplane, but I'm not a military plane geek so I inaccurately called it a "bomber" -- that was the later B2 which flew in 1989 (according to Wikipedia) so it would not have been relevant to the Space Command Logo, at least presumably.

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 26 2020, @09:21PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 26 2020, @09:21PM (#949009)

        Your military plane non-geek status did not cause an inaccuracy.

        The F-117 Stealth Fighter was named/designated to deliberately cause confusion as to what it really was: a stealthy precision bomber that could slip in unnoticed, execute a precise bombing mission, and return to base, all while hopefully remaining untargetable.

        Ground attack craft are a subset of bombers. They started as fighters mounting bombs/rockets, then dedicated dive bombers were developed, and so on.

        So quit beating yourself up, technically you were correct in calling it a bomber, it is.

        *sigh* Yet another of the multitude of evils done by marketing...