General Officer Commanding Puns

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In many instances of crew crossovers, we see multiple uniforms in use by personnel from different postings. The longstanding assumption is that this happens only because some crews have not caught up on the latest Starfleet directives for uniform design. But this is an absurdity given the existence of replicators, as well as long-range subspace communications. As far back as the DIS era, uniforms were easily and quickly manufactured by replication ("The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry"). Therefore it should be trivial for any crew of a starship or space station, even those operating on the frontier of Federation space, to implement a new uniform directive. But because not everyone immediately transitions over to the new standard in between episodes, this implies that commanding officers operating far from HQ have some unspoken autonomy on the implementation of uniforms for themselves and their subordinates.

We have a modern expectation, based on how state militaries work in the real world, that all uniforms of a given branch of service for a given country are designed identically for all personnel (notwithstanding military decorations, rank insignia, and other allowances). Military dress code has also been implemented in history to submerge personal identity, to promote unit cohesion and identity, and to differentiate friend from foe during fog of war. As for a multicultural organization reflective of Federation values like Starfleet, it makes sense for postings in space to be allowed some leeway in uniform design. If the odds of direct face-to-face armed confrontation are minimal, it won't matter what your allies are wearing or what the enemy is wearing because you'll never have to tell them apart from each other. (So little or none of this likely applies to MACOs, ground occupation forces, colonial security forces, and anyone who expects to go into melee with the Jem'Hadar.)

So, within a given time period, let's suppose Starfleet authorizes multiple styles of uniforms and allows every commanding officer of an off-world posting (i.e., starship captains, station commanders, etc), to pick from any of these authorized styles, based on the premise that not every uniform style will work for every crew microculture for maximum efficiency. Because uniforms are so easy to replicate, it's trivial for a commanding officer to implement a new style when authorized or swap from one old style to another as they see fit.

Examples of this unspoken privile

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Would they be penalized if they tried to report it to anyone else?

So after months of pushing it off, I asked to speak to him in private. I finally came out to my commanding officer, I told him my gender identity as a female and I have she/her pronouns. He was very accepting which was great, he told me that it opened his eyes and that the issues ive been having all made sense (he knew about the times, ive been found crying... because submarines...) I was very relieved to open up and as and he put it as "I was pretending to be who I really wasn't". He told me he didn't get it ... but wanted to emphasize that he gets it, he was trying to be very understanding, I already had so much respect but this made me even happier. He told me he will have my back in however I wanted to express my self, I didn't have to wave a flag around, but i should feel comfortable here. It was a fairly positive conversation. BUT!!!! As long as Im attached to my command I unfortunately I will have to serve the rest of my enlistment as a male and adhere to male regulations and that part MESSED me up and my heart sunk, i wish i never joined submarines, I wish I never lied to myself, I wish i never tried to 'fix myself'. I will have the inability to medically transition, something that I would like to persue, I feel like im just gonna be a girl that has very masc features and a penis stuff I dont want. Only 2 more years... I feel relieved that being a woman is no longer a secret yet disappointed and stuck. I don't know why...

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