On that show, most of the nurses seemed to be lieutenants. And of course, Margaret Houlihan was a major. However, I’m not sure that a bachelor of nursing degree existed back in the Korean War… 
Yea I see their stripes more now that we've been discussing it. I am hoping we hear their titles more so we can tell what is associated with what better.Since we’ve been talking about ranks and uniform insignia, I paid extra attention to this latest episode. So, yeah, Number One is definitely a lieutenant commander; and she sports two thick stripes on her cuffs. M’Benga and Chapel must, likewise, be lieutenant commanders — as they have the same insignia. (Though… since they’re usually referred to as “doctor” and “nurse,” their ranks are less conspicuous/problematic.) Also, I noticed that Lieutenant Kirk has only one (thick) cuff stripe. This (finally!) is consistent with prior Treks and the Memory Alpha articles. But it’s internally inconsistent with SNW. I.e., Spock, Noonien-Singh and Ortegas (also lieutenants) wear two (thick + thin) cuff stripes. Now, possibly, Kirk is a lieutenant junior grade. But it seems odd to have a rank/insignia for a lowly Lt. JG and yet no rank (that we’ve seen) for a full commander.
As previously mentioned, Trek has a long history of messing up character ranks. Indeed, it’s almost an endearing idiosyncrasy at this point. So, in a way, it’s good that SNW is keeping with tradition.
Well only thing I could think is Una is first officer and is wearing those stripes because of it. That or the stripes are wrong. Guess we have to wait and see what they call each other in other episodes.
Ah gotcha, thanks thought I was fooled by the mustache and it might be the same lol.
that seems about right lol.Speaking of confusing rank insignia... Someone (via Twitter/TrekBBS) posted a "helpful" reference guide:
She might know him already, she is on the enterprise as a civilian exchange. So it might be like an intership from school. But she meets him at school. But knowing this show T'pring will probably introduce them to each other because she is jealous of her and Spock being so close. Yeah this show doesn't get Vulcans so they would do something like this.I wonder if they will show Nurse Chapel meeting and becoming engaged to Roger Corby to line up with the Original Series episode "What are little girls made of?". That would mean she would have to meet him fairly soon. But what of her feelings for Spock? Maybe they'll say that she merely agreed to marry Corby because she thought there couldn't be anything between her and Spock but her heart wasn't really into Corby deep down.
And Nurse Chapel's white uniform really needs to be blue.
Speaking of confusing rank insignia... Someone (via Twitter/TrekBBS) posted a "helpful" reference guide:
For the showrunners I would say not important at all. For the fans I would say mixed. I am of the mind that the lore and cannon should be consistent. If they wanted to change so much they should have just did what the older Trek shows used to do. Start in a time after the previous series and progress the lore by adding to it. Like TNG did with TOS, then DS9 did with TNG. Each one moved the lore forward and enhanced on what we had before. The klingons were fleshed out in TNG, the cardassians and bajorans were fleshed out in DS9. We also got a new big bad in the dominion.
New directions are fine, they have about 10 years to do what they want I think before TOS so there is lots to explore. They don't need to bump into all the TOS stuff we know.
I think it is just a mistake that since one of their scanners uses the light as the scanner, the actors thought both use them. So they just point the light. Here is a labeled picture of the original which this white one is based off of. It is from the technical manual.
