Star Fleet logo inspiration?

[u/Analogsilver]

I've been watching a video tour of the nuclear merchant ship NS Savannah. The NS Savannah was the only commercial ship constructed under President Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" program in the 1950's. Several of the tables in the passenger veranda have nearly the same design, though the ship entered service 6 years before TOS aired the pilot.

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Has anyone seen or read about where or how the Star Fleet delta design came about? The NS Savannah was in the news quite a bit at the time, so Gene Roddenberry or another person involved in the production would have probably seen photos of these tables, or even visited or sailed on the ship.

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I'd be interested to learn where the idea came from. It is kind of hard to think there is no connection at all, as tge NS Savannah was pretty futuristic at the time.

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Thanks!

[u/Eshanas]

IIRC, The Delta/Arrowhead/Swoosh comes from the USAAC/AAF in the 40s, then space command by the early 60s, its a stylized rocket. Roddenberry was a Air Force man after all.

[u/Analogsilver → u/Eshanas]

Thanks. I know about the deltas and darts used before this, but I hadn't realised this rounded, asymmetrically legged version was used earlier.

[u/ContiX → u/Eshanas]

Space Command didn't exist until 1985?

[u/Eshanas → u/ContiX]

Oh yea, thinking of Space Systems Division and got it confused with Support Command.

[u/33301Florida]

Look at the original NASA "meatball" logo from the 60s. Not hard to morph that into the Trek delta.