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In TNG and DS9, Starfleet members and soldiers/officers in the Bajoran militia use long distance communicators shaped like the symbols of the organizations they serve attached to their uniforms- do military/security forces of any other nations use similar devices?

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  • Does Odo count? He appears to be wearing a Bajoran militia outfit, complete with combadge, but he's not a member of the Bajoran militia. He just looks like that because he was mimicking the Bajoran scientist who found him. (Side-note: always found it odd that his combadge, which is not part of him or it probably wouldn't be functional, morphed with him somehow...)
    – Darrel Hoffman
    Oct 15, 2021 at 13:39
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    @DarrelHoffman - Odo absolutely is a member of the Bajoran Militia
    – Valorum
    Oct 15, 2021 at 16:26
  • @Valorum Not always - during the Cardassian occupation, Odo was still Chief of Security, which the Cardassians surely would not have allowed if he were a member of the Bajoran Militia (which they considered to be a terrorist organization). He also retained that position when the Cardassians retook the station for a while - notably the only person allowed that leeway as all the Bajoran officers were kicked out. In all that time though, he kept his Bajoran combadge.
    – Darrel Hoffman
    Oct 15, 2021 at 17:14
  • @DarrelHoffman apparently he indeed morphed a functional combadge.
    – OrangeDog
    Oct 16, 2021 at 15:08

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The Klingons used a couple of different combadge styles.

This kind seen several times in TNG.
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And this from the film Generations. enter image description here

Interestingly, the website Roddenberry.com (seller of 'officially licensed" Star Trek props and merchandise) sold a set of 'alien combadges'.

This is a 1:1 scale prop of five alien badges used on STAR TREK: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. This set includes the Klingon and Romulan badges, as well as badges used by alien races: Prytt, Angosian, Hierarchy and Ledosian. The badge set also includes an attractive display plaque comes painted in a metallic finish.

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  • So the badges cling on to the sleeve instead of the shirt?
    – Machavity
    Oct 15, 2021 at 13:28
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    The one from Generations looks like it's a repurposed Klingon elevator call button...
    – Darrel Hoffman
    Oct 15, 2021 at 13:42
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    @DarrelHoffman - Klingons had to deal with 'low bidder wins the contract' as much as everyone else...
    – Jon Custer
    Oct 15, 2021 at 14:00
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    At the end of this clip you can see a Klingon using his arm based com badge youtube.com/watch?v=_o4GJdHsRH0
    – Mike
    Oct 15, 2021 at 18:16
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    their badges can cling-on anything
    – NKCampbell
    Oct 15, 2021 at 18:59

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