Prop, Senior Chief Petty Officer Patch, Rank Patch

Hello again from the seaQuest MPS Blog as patch week wraps up.  seaQuest uniforms displayed the person's rank with these types of patches on the right shoulder.  A smaller version of this rank patch was also on the left and right side of the collar.  The number of bars and stars signifies to rank, and the color relates to the department.  This light blue one with four bar is for a Chief Petty Officer who was part of the deck crew.

Of course, Chief Crocker wore this type of rank patch.  This shot is taken from To Be or Not To Be, where it seems they had yet to add the collar patches to Crocker's uniform.

Next time on the seaQuest MPS Blog: An Omni-Pacific Ticket.

Merchandise, UEO Patch

A quick one from the seaQuest MPS Blog today with a couple of merchandise UEO patches.

Comparison to a costuming-made patch from my previously published UEO Hat. You can see the UEO letters are slightly thinner on the prop patch vs. the merchandise ones.

Next time on the seaQuest MPS Blog: A Senior Chief Petty Officer patch.

Merchandise, seaQuest Patch Style One, seaQuest Patch Style Two

Hello again from the seaQuest MPS Blog as patch week continues.  Several varieties of seaQuest patches were made over the years, including those for costumes on the show and several merchandise patches.  The merchandise patches never quite matched the prop/costuming ones.  The colors are off, and the font of the 4600 is wrong.

seaQuest merchandise patch style one.

seaQuest merchandise patch style two.

Comparison to a seaQuest prop patch.  As said above, the way to tell the prop patch made for costumes is the general color, along with the size and font of the 4600.  None of the merchandise or other unofficial patches I have seen ever got that right.

Next time on the seaQuest MPS Blog: UEO patch.

Prop, J. Grayson Velcro Name Patch

Hello all and a quick one today on the seaQuest MPS Blog.  This is another Velcro name patch from seaQuest's first season, but this time of a background character.

J. Grayson name patch.

A character called Grayson was in The Regulator, but you do not see the patch on screen.  Grayson is in the scene where Crocker is reassigning crew quarters, he is one of the two people that have to bunk with O'Neill.

Next time on the seaQuest MPS Blog: a merchandise seaQuest patch.

Prop, K. Westphalen Velcro Name Patch

Today on the seaQuest MPS Blog, an ultimately unused Velcro name patch from the first season.  seaQuest had numerous scripting, casting, and producering (if that is a word) changes during its three season run.  There were also frequent costuming changes, and not just the switch from the black to the blue uniforms from season one to season two.  Something seemingly as simple as name patches went through several iterations during the first season.  The first patches had the characters first initial and last name, as seen on the below K. Westphalen patch.  While my patch does not appear to have made it to screen, several of these first style patches did.  The next iteration for Westphalen, that did make it to screen as seen in To Be or Not To Be, replaced her first initial with an acknowledgement of her doctorate, hence Dr. Westphalen.  Later on in the season, as seen in The Good Death, costuming added another line to the patch to indicate that Westphalen was part of the MED-TEAM.

K. Westphalen Velcro Name Patch.

Below the jump, a few more images from the first season showing the changing name patch styles