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From: hlee@hplabsb.UUCP (Ho John Lee)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Red shirt == death
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Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 12:58:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 16 12:58:49 1984
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>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 ?
>					Bart Thielges

Red shirts were engineering and security people. Blue shirts were
science and medicine. Gold shirts (green for a few episodes) were
command crew. The little 'arrow head' insignia on the shirts 
also indicated the organization. Engineers got little lightning
bolts, Science got two overlapping circles (planets?) and Command
got a stretched out star.


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Ho John Lee, HP Labs
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