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I have looked and looked on Google images, eBay, Amazon, Star Trek shop, Memory Alpha... There are no references whatsoever to this badge design yet I obtained this commercially available example 20+ years ago.

Which series or stories is it from? What does the symbol mean?

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    Do you recall where you obtained this from? – Xantec May 30 '22 at 23:18
  • @Xantec I have a suspicion this could have been something promotional for Star Trek Voyager. Gamma-symbol, Gamma Quadrant... Buy enough VHS tapes, get a badge... – Ruutsa May 30 '22 at 23:23
  • @Xantec But nothing suggests this symbol was featured in ST Voyager. – Ruutsa May 30 '22 at 23:31
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    Was it "commercially available" in the sense of being mass-produced, or could it have been the creation of a fan that was sold somewhere? – Hypnosifl May 30 '22 at 23:49
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    Someone on this thread says it was a header page for the Star Fleet Technical Manual (originally a fan creation, though it proved popular enough that it was eventually licensed by the Trek IP owners). – Hypnosifl May 31 '22 at 00:03
  • @Hypnosifl It's not been obtained from a fan's forge. There probably never were any in the UK at the time. I never went for Star Trek conventions and such at the time either. OTOH, would a fan go to the trouble of carefully embossing the symbol, (low-quality) gold plating the badge and filling the "gamma" with some contrasting, hard-wearing black "stuff"? BTW this is how the badge looks after being stored in a box for 20+ years and wiped with a tissue before posting the photo. – Ruutsa May 31 '22 at 00:17
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    @Ruutsa - Voyager takes place primarily in the delta quadrant, not gamma. – Basya May 31 '22 at 08:46
  • @Basya I am a bad Star Trek fan to get that wrong, having binge-watched Voyager recently... – Ruutsa May 31 '22 at 22:44
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    @Ruutsa - we all make mistakes! (Even Star Trek fans :-) ) I wasn't sure myself; had to look it up before I commented! – Basya Jun 01 '22 at 07:21
  • Are there any marking on the reverse of the badge? – Valorum Jun 06 '22 at 08:39
  • @Basya - Takes place in the Delta and Beta quadrants, technically speaking. – Valorum Jun 10 '22 at 07:55

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The symbol (lower-case gamma) Starfleet badge appears in the Starfleet Technical Manual, along with a variety of other non-canon badge designs.

To the best of my knowledge, it's never been produced as an official badge design which suggests that it was sold to you as a bootleg.

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