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That's beautiful.

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It's the Kelpien symbol
for community, isn't it?

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Community and service.

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It signifies my status as a
council member in my village.

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I actually do love the new uniforms

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that we have this year with my
special pin I have over here.

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That is my tether to home, for sure.

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And I'm really glad that
Starfleet let me wear that

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with my uniform,

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in addition to my Starfleet badge.

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Saru's Kaminar council pin is actually

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very reminiscent of Worf's bandolier.

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We actually discussed that
when we started designing it

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as whether we could
actually wear other items

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from other cultures while
wearing the Starfleet uniform,

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and the Klingon piece that
Worf wears was discussed,

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so--as an antecedent to
what we could do here.

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You'll find Saru, oftentimes,
with his arms folded,

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kind of giving it a little bit of a stroke

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because he is so fond of his
home, and he longs for it.

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Lieutenant.

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And the pin itself is a
gorgeous brooch

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that really resembles
kind of the, I would say,

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the art direction and
the production design

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of the home planet Kaminar.

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It's got that very organic
sort of rooty, viney, kelpy,

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sea vegetation thing with
a nice gemstone in it.

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At this point in their history,

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the Ba'ul culture and the
Kelpien culture have immersed

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and have started to work together.

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So that was part of the design
language for the council pin.

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There's the Ba'ul
monolith intermingled

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with the Kelpien sun, and
then sort of these cool

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flarey arms were reminiscent
of the way the Kelpiens move

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and their sort of water
fluid language.

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It's just a lovely reminder
that he's got a dual life now.

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He's very beholden to Starfleet
and his sense of duty there

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has never faded, but his
sense of home and nostalgia

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and family and all that
tethers him to home

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is still very, very present as well.

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One cannot have all the
lives one desires.

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A choice is always necessary.