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.

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