Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Star Fleet color code Message-ID: <154@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 20:47:39 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.154 Posted: Tue Oct 16 20:47:39 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 05:49:07 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 16 *** YOUR MESSAGE *** Shirts (the series, not the movie): Greenish-gold = Command (worn by Capt., helm, navigation, others) Blue = Science (Sci. Officer, Medical, random scientists) Red = Engineering (Chief Engineer, Communications, *Security*, others) What you're noticing is that they always take one or two security men along to get killed so that they don't have to waste any of the main characters. The life of a "red-shirt" is a running joke among some friends of mine who watch Star Trek. -- Mark A. ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph