WHOOPS! GERMAN NEWS USES STAR TREK LOGO IN PLACE OF SEAL TEAM SIX LOGO.

Those silly Germans mistakenly used artwork that a Star Trek fan created for a 24th century terrorist group and displayed it in their newscast as the official U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six patch.

I don’t know what’s funnier. The Klingon swords or the phaser pistol on the trident in the fan created logo. Both of these weapons are hallmark 24th century Star Trek weapons which sadly 21st century Navy SEALs’ don’t use.

Here is the OFFICIAL SEAL Team Six patch.

And here is the fan created patch for the Star Trek Marquis.

The Star Trek fan website TrekMovie goes more in depth on the German news network’s “graphical” failure.

On Thursday the German news channel N24 was covering the death of Osama bin Laden and how the US Navy’s “SEAL Team Six” headed up the mission in Pakistan last Sunday. At one point N24 host Mick Locher showed off what he thought was the official emblem for SEAL Team Six, check it out:

Star Trek’s Maquis helped take down Osama bin Laden?

Locher even commented (translated from German) on the emblem:

And they also have the ‘Team Six,’ that carried out the mission. They don’t have the skull in their emblem for nothing.

Locher didn’t seem to notice (or care) that the skull in question was from a Klingon and included a bolted-on eyepatch. He and N24 also appear undeterred by the emblem’s inclusion of a phaser, 3 Klingon bat’leth swords and the word “Maquis.” The original Maquis were a French resistance guerrilla group who (ironically) fought against German occupation in World War II. That group inspired the name for the Maquis seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, who fought against Cardassia in former Federation colonies.

Quote Via: TrekMovie.com.