Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site hplabsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!zehntel!hplabs!hplabsb!hlee From: hlee@hplabsb.UUCP (Ho John Lee) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Red shirt == death Message-ID: <2578@hplabsb.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 12:58:49 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsb.2578 Posted: Tue Oct 16 12:58:49 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Oct-84 19:23:52 EDT References: <16000005@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 20 >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. -- Ho John Lee, HP Labs UUCP: ...!hplabs!hlee ARPA: hlee.hplabs@csnet-relay