May 5, 2009 - Captain's Chair

[BrotherFlounder]

I want an inflatable captain's chair, too.

I realized yesterday that this is going to be the first (and only) new Star Trek released during my entire college career...and that it slides in by only one day - I graduate on the 8th! No wonder my Trekkieness was slipping. Thank god for the Stargates and BSG, or I might have lost my geek cred altogether.

[ampersand]

Okay, I'm not up to date with the original Star Trek color chart. So what's the difference between Liz's outfit and the red outfit of death that most privates wore before they died? (And what is Tony's occupation?)

[zuke]

In the original series, red = death (unless you were wearing a hot go-go outfit). In the movies, everyone was wearing red. In TNG, the olive green/yellow security details seemed to get it the most. In DS9, it was the Bjoran's who kept dying. In Voyager, they seemed to lose a LOT of blue suited science staff. In Enterprise, anyone NOT on the bridge seemed to be fair game.

[Mae Dean]

Well, in TOS, Red was the security/engineering color, with Yellow being more of the command color. For TNG, they switched it up - Yellow tended to be security/engineering, with red as command. Blue has always been science/medical, as far as I know. They've tended to stick with that color scheme from TNG on, for the most part.

Come to think of it, though - I'm not really sure why Uhura was in red. Unless there's another meaning behind the colors I'm missing. (I'm sure it's out there on a Wiki somewhere, I'm just too lazy to find it.)

[BrotherFlounder]

Well, Uhura started out with a gold go-go uniform, but switched to red after two episodes. I have to imagine that this change was made because at least in part because she looks far better in the red uniform than the gold.

In the original series, red = death (unless you were wearing a hot go-go outfit).

Even a couple gals in the go-go uniform were killed.

[Scotty]

i think TOS also had the "anyone not on the bridge" idea as well, or at the very least "main cast gets immunity regardless of uniform colour" at least between the second episode(first that kirk was in) and Wrath of Khan, but then Spock's death was more of a heroic sacrifice as opposed to say Tasha Yar's death in TNG

[zuke]

Which one?

[Mae Dean]

The first one. The second death was much better. And more productive, all things considered.

[Scotty]

well yeah, i think the first one was more to do with contract issues with Dennise Crosby at the time, the second was probably an apology from paramount as well as a semi-recurring role

[BrotherFlounder]

Yeah, Crosby had already told them she wanted out. It's a shame her death was so meaningless, but they certainly fixed that.