TV News Crew Confuses Star Trek Organization with US Navy SEALs

By John Farrier in Entertainment, Science Fiction on May 10, 2011 at 3:27 pm

In the Star Trek universe, the Maquis was a military organization created by Federation colonists who ended up on the Cardassian side of the border when the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union signed a peace treaty. SEAL Team Six of the US Navy is a different organization, although a German TV news crew confused the two:

Locher didn’t seem to notice (or care) that the skull in question was from a Klingon and included a bolted-on eyepatch. He and N24 also appear undeterred by the emblem’s inclusion of a phaser, 3 Klingon bat’leth swords and the word “Maquis.”

Link via io9 | Image: TrekMovie


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  1. c0ldfish
    May 10th, 2011 at 9:05 pm

    in defense of the blundering news agency

    some us military patches are pretty crazy to begin with

    see

  2. Miss Cellania
    May 11th, 2011 at 3:30 am

    This is what Google Image Search has done for us.

  3. Brian O'Connell
    May 11th, 2011 at 5:13 am

    Correct patch or not, it’s still pretty awesome.

  4. catherine
    May 11th, 2011 at 6:11 am

    Wait, I thought that we in the United States are the only people in the world who are ignorant of other countries? That’s what I keep reading, and I am fairly certain that would have been the result if this were an American news program making a similar mistake about some German organization.

  5. Sid Morrison
    May 11th, 2011 at 7:13 am

    Ach, das is verrĂĽckt!

  6. Gauldar
    May 11th, 2011 at 10:02 am

    It’s about time the military has started to train soldiers with the Bat’leth!

  7. Gauldar
    May 11th, 2011 at 10:07 am

    @catherine

    It’s not as bad as the amount of US new stations which didn’t proof read their own broadcasted reports confusion Osama and Obama multiple times. Have you thought that maybe people just make mistakes, and no generalized country is really to blame?


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