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Command, Operations, Sciences, Medical - four basic divisions on TNG+ starships.
projectfrontier
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I will quote a statement made by someone I know who does not post on these forums but finds the arguments funny about "uniform color":
"Command, Operations, Sciences, Medical - four basic divisions represented on a Starship circa TNG.
Command wears red. They command the ship. The Captain, the XO, a handful of others who are the senior most (and apparently) non-specialist staffers seem to all wear red. They're paper pushers.
Operations wears gold. They operate the ship. Tactical, Security, Engineering, are all examples of these glorified button mashers. They mash buttons as hard as they can after the paper pusher says "MAKE IT SO!"
Sciences wears blue. They science the science. Sometimes they put a science in your science because they heard you like science. A lot of science going on here, but not much else. They cause problems.
Medical wears sorta-blue-sorta-green. They make you turn your head and cough, or at least they try to. You probably don't want to be alone with these people given how even their outfits cannot make up their minds about simple things like coloration - don't say you weren't warned.
It's that simple. Why do people argue about this? Even CBS recognizes this as canon."
"Command, Operations, Sciences, Medical - four basic divisions represented on a Starship circa TNG.
Command wears red. They command the ship. The Captain, the XO, a handful of others who are the senior most (and apparently) non-specialist staffers seem to all wear red. They're paper pushers.
Operations wears gold. They operate the ship. Tactical, Security, Engineering, are all examples of these glorified button mashers. They mash buttons as hard as they can after the paper pusher says "MAKE IT SO!"
Sciences wears blue. They science the science. Sometimes they put a science in your science because they heard you like science. A lot of science going on here, but not much else. They cause problems.
Medical wears sorta-blue-sorta-green. They make you turn your head and cough, or at least they try to. You probably don't want to be alone with these people given how even their outfits cannot make up their minds about simple things like coloration - don't say you weren't warned.
It's that simple. Why do people argue about this? Even CBS recognizes this as canon."
Proposals for using in-game features to improve: (1) the "Phaser Lance" (and other underrepresented/missing "big guns"); && (2) separation systems on all ships that have them; && (3) training boffs in captain only powers by using boffs as pack-mules; OR to add functionality like: (4) "Away Teams Of Space Ships";
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Wanna argue?
You want to argue with me about a quote?
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Also, Colors have changed even in the show, or do you not think TOS color's are canon?
FWIW, the color they started using for Medical at some point in TNG was Teal Green (bear in mind that there is also a shade of blue known as "Teal Blue," so "Teal" by itself is ambiguous).
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Which part, the color or the division? I'm no expert but isn't Starfleet Medical an entire Division of Starfleet generally?
Does that mean you posted something inappropriate and you realized it after the fact?
If you read the original post you would know that it's mostly a quotation of something someone else said about all of the threads about uniform color that have been sprouting up.
The basis for the statement is based off of their knowledge of the production of the various series.
I'll pass along your message if you like, they'd certainly have a good chuckle at your concluding argument - I mean that's just funny stupid.
Odd quote, good point about teal.
Lets go for one an hour.
I noticed the coloration differences myself were fairly apparent on DS9.
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Yes, the undershirt on the DS9 work uniform in later episodes went teal-green when they sifted from color-coded shoulders to colored under-shirtsshirts with uniform-shoulders; but Jadzia (sciences) wore the same color as Bashir (Medical) and later Ezri (Medical) when in the same uniform types. So there really is no difference other than the particular shade was different for science/medical (both) on that uniform.
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