The Redshirts

[Teaos]

Do you think that Redshirts got killed as a way of revenge against the Redcoats?

[Mikey]

Do you think that Redshirts got killed as a way of revenge against the Redcoats?

And the Hessians! We've had Japanese, Russians, Africans (or African-Americans,) Caucasians, Irish, Scottish, etc.... but no Germans or English!

[Sionnach Glic]

I still do not see what's left to do for the redshirts,

They'd most likely function as officers for the various low-ranking crewmen engaged in minor tasks around the ship that we don't see.

but I am after all only an unenlightened guy from "old europe".

Hey, everyone knows Old Europe's where all the fun is.

[Mark]

I wonder WHY they switched department colors. Why switch Operations from red to gold, and Command from gold to red. Never could understand the motivation behind that. I'd imagine it confused alot of people for a while.

[Mithrandir]

I wonder WHY they switched department colors. Why switch Operations from red to gold, and Command from gold to red. Never could understand the motivation behind that. I'd imagine it confused alot of people for a while.

I don't think so. I mean, they had an awful lot of uniform designs and colors in the meantime. I suppose, they got too confused with all the different colors on those TOS-Movie-uniforms and decided to go back to the "good old times" with only three colors (and messed it up getting them right ).

[Deepcrush]

Remember that the TOS movies (STII-STVI) had their own uniforms that were without department colors. They even looked like real uniforms!

[Teaos]

Bulky uniforms. Not very comfortable to work in for a 8 hour shift by the looks of things.

[Mikey]

Remember that the TOS movies (STII-STVI) had their own uniforms that were without department colors. They even looked like real uniforms!

I think they did have department colors, on the tunics worn under the maroon jackets.

[Sionnach Glic]

I wonder WHY they switched department colors. Why switch Operations from red to gold, and Command from gold to red. Never could understand the motivation behind that. I'd imagine it confused alot of people for a while.

What happened was that the Redshirts, tired of being used as canon fodder by their malicious Goldshirt overlords, staged a mass uprising all across Starfleet. The revolution was bloody, but the Redshirts finaly prevailed and consigned their former oppressors to the menial and dangerous jobs they had once been forced to labour and die at, while they siezed control of Starfleet and ushered in the era of the Redshirts.

[Tsukiyumi]

I wonder WHY they switched department colors. Why switch Operations from red to gold, and Command from gold to red. Never could understand the motivation behind that. I'd imagine it confused alot of people for a while.

What happened was that the Redshirts, tired of being used as canon fodder by their malicious Goldshirt overlords, staged a mass uprising all across Starfleet. The revolution was bloody, but the Redshirts finaly prevailed and consigned their former oppressors to the menial and dangerous jobs they had once been forced to labour and die at, while they siezed control of Starfleet and ushered in the era of the Redshirts.

Works for me.

[Mikey]

"I'm Ensign Ricky!"

"No, I'm Ensign Ricky!"

"I am Ensign Ricky!"

[Mark]

Nice............. I could live with that.

[Deepcrush]

[Mithrandir]

Remember that the TOS movies (STII-STVI) had their own uniforms that were without department colors. They even looked like real uniforms!

They had department colors. Quite a few!