Beam me up

This bit of web weirdness came my way: “daguerreotypes” of Star Trek characters.

Well, of course. Why not?

But a couple of thoughts:

First: Kirk looks like he served in Winston Churchill’s regiment, the 4^th Queen’s Own Hussars:

Although he doesn’t seem to have any campaign medals.

(Okay, I don’t know from Victorian uniforms. But I can see the presence or absence of medals.)

Second—why only the original Star Trek?