after the ToS series starfleet adopted the enterprise's chevron as the fleet symbol to honor the ship and it's crew

this is why in the movies onward every ship used the chevron


in the real world the studio got lazy and didn't want to make a different insignia for every ship and crew

Hate to jump on the bandwagon of disagreeing with virtually everything you say....BUT....

A) That video you link is nothing even resembling canon...the CGI is so-so for a fan project, but its NOT canon.

B) You just proved yourself wrong...the only emblem on that ship is the Starfleet chevron, not a UFP logo.

No.It is not as that is an actuall model of the model ship and they use the delta shield for the UFP on Starships.Starfleet has never used the UFP logo on Starships look at the belly of the Galaxy class.

http://trekazoid.files.wordpress.com...galaxy_vnt.jpg

This one is definely from one of the movies.

http://i.imgur.com/NSdGA.jpg

This is my sig and if you look very closely you will see it has the delta shield representing the UFP.

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/1697/mysigr.png

besides .I know that ship really well as it is my Favourite.

Here is a better one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvPrYMczF3k

I Agree with this. Please allow us to kill the emblem on the ships.

I always thought of the Federation as the government and Starfleet as the military of that government.

It's foggy, to say the least.

The Federation is basically a U.N. in Space, with members including Earth, Andoria, Vulcan, etc. Logically, Starfleet would then be something more like N.A.T.O., being a combination of all the militaries of those member states ... except that Starfleet is an Earth-based, and clearly Human-centric organization. Federation member species can join, and even rise to command and admiralty, but it's completely based on Earth and heavily filled with Human officers and enlisted personnel, compared to those other races.

Picard even talks about "humanity" and "Starfleet" as though they were interchangeable sometimes, and when talking about Starfleet history, they speak mostly about Earth.

Again, they never really explain what Starfleet is to the Federation -- it could be the official, mutli-national military branch of the same government, or Earth's entry into the N.A.T.O.-like united military force of the Federation.

If it's the latter, then Andorian and Vulcan ships, as well as any other ships belonging to Federation member species, would also have UFP text on their hull, just as Starfleet ships do. If it's the former, then there should be Starfleet academies and headquarters on other planets, but we see no evidence of this.

Still, you never see the Starfleet Delta symbol on anything Federation, just exclusively on Starfleet ships and personnel. My own belief is that Starfleet is, essentially, the Earth government, and it just pulls the weight of the entire Federation while other species decide to basically kick back and mind meld or ushaan or whatever they feel like.