recko@rex.DEC (10/25/84)
>This may have been discussed before, but has anyone noticed that the extra's >wearing red shirts seem to get hurt/killed/blasted into nonexistance more >than crewmembers wearing other color shirts ? Is this just because more extras >(ur.. I mean nonregulars) wear red shirts ? Is there a color code ? If so, >then what do the colors mean ? in the old (ie. the tv series) format: gold = command blue = sciences red = services these groupings match the insignia worn on the shirt. since security guards (ie. people who commonly get in the way of such nasties as phaser shots, lightning bolts, explosive rocks, and deranged computers, among other things) fall under the services branch, they wear red shirts. note that uhura and scott also have the red uniforms. it may be that this categorizing was dropped for the films, or perhaps simply all the people that we saw were of command rank, but it seemed that everyone was wearing the *star* insignia and i noticed no uniform colour code. >Spock was not the only character in both pilots. >-- >Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe i don't remember any other CHARACTER appearing in both "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before". Majel Barrett did go from 'Number One' to Christine Chapel, but we're talking characters here. :-) { debatable point: it could be said that it was not really spock's character who made the jump between pilots, but rather number one, since the spock that we all know more closly resembled the short glimpse that we got of her. any comments? } tr (tim recko, DEC, Maynard, MA) Thu 25-Oct-1984 10:11 (Maynard_Time)
6912ar04@sjuvax.UUCP (rowley) (11/09/84)
The uniforms, besides being color-coded, also have a specific service symbol
located in the middle of the insignia on the front of the shirts. These symbols
have been carried over to some extent in all three movies(look at the shoulder
clasps on the new uniforms).
A. J. Rowley
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