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Uncategorized Wednesday, May 11th 2011 at 10:15 am

German News Crew Confuses Star Trek Rebel Logo with Navy SEAL Emblem

There are perils associated with apparently using Google Image Search to get material for your official news broadcast. When a German television news channel, N24, was reporting a story on Navy SEAL Team Six, the unit which spearheaded the operation which ultimately killed Osama bin Laden, the channel accidentally used a fan-made logo for the Maquis, an anti-Cardassian rebel group which originally appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in place of the SEAL Team Six emblem.

As TrekMovie points out, there are a few differences between the logos: “[The newscaster] 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.’” He also made on-air comments that acknowledged the Maquis logo and seemed to treat it as the real thing: “And they also have the ‘Team Six,’ that carried out the mission. They don’t have the skull in their emblem for nothing.”

Honest mistake.

(TrekMovie via io9 via Neatorama)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ralph-E-Vaughan/100001511573607 Ralph E. Vaughan

    Klingon saying: “Today is a good day to die!”
    Maquis saying: “You’re right about that.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ralph-E-Vaughan/100001511573607 Ralph E. Vaughan

    Klingon saying: “Today is a good day to die!”
    Maquis saying: “You’re right about that.”

  • http://impossibledreamsmedia.com Chris Jones

    That is freaking hilarious!

  • http://ninure.tk Ninure

    They must have learned how to do their research serving as interns at FOX…

  • Smarterthanyou

    They must have learned how to do their research serving as interns at MSNBC, CNN and The New York Times…

  • hushpuppy

    I was thinking they had to have learned how to do their research from internet self-coined “experts” and public schooling…

  • http://www.maquis.com Makahilahila

    Yeah, it just blows me away that they didn’t notice the klingon skull, bat’leths and phaser and I wan’t to ensure all the heartfelt thanks goes to the US Navy Seal Team Six and all our military for their service to our country. But as a member of Maquis Forces International (it was one of our logos that they mistook for the real US Navy Seal Team Six logo), I’m thankful to N24 for the free publicity for our group! :)

  • http://www.maquis.com Makahilahila

    Yeah, it just blows me away that they didn’t notice the klingon skull, bat’leths and phaser and I wan’t to ensure all the heartfelt thanks goes to the US Navy Seal Team Six and all our military for their service to our country. But as a member of Maquis Forces International (it was one of our logos that they mistook for the real US Navy Seal Team Six logo), I’m thankful to N24 for the free publicity for our group! :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002291703668 William Marcum

    I can say without a doubt that I can tell it’s obviously not the navy seal patch, because I’ve seen that. Having no clue what any of the star trek stuff is I mean… to me it just looks like something a 13 year old made for Counter Strike.