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I agree 100%. Another design flaw is engineering and security having the same color.
Those actually match somehow, I mean:
“Quick, we need to hold back the invaders in sector r5!”
“Invaders in sector r5? A quick release of the airlock oughta fix that! Also, Jimmy, could you go fetch me the BIG welder?”
Or as the Engineer from TF2 said:
Hey look, buddy. I’m an engineer, that means I solve problems. Not problems like “What is beauty?”, ‘cause that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems! For instance, how am I gonna stop some big mean Mother-Hubbard from tearin’ me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer? Use a gun. And if that don’t work, use more gun. Like this heavy caliber, tripod-mounted, little ol’ number designed by me, built by me, and you’d best hope… not pointed at you.
Security has to have a thorough understanding of ships systems and computers to do their job. They’re half guard, half engineer.
I could see security being forced to do the manual labor that the engineers need done but don’t have the stamina to do efficiently. There should be more of that kind of cooperation between their teams. What the hell is security even doing 90% of the time when there’s no threat? Regular patrols and checks wouldn’t take even half of their man hours.
I’ve never been a big Trek fan, preferring to align with Star Wars in the false choice between them.
However this past weekend, I bought a Raspberry Pi box, and an 8tb hard drive, and the first thing I pirated was the entire first season of TNG.
I propose we call this “doing a Lemmy”
Ummm just a fair warning, the first season of TNG was pretty badly written. It gets better with the later seasons.
I am quite enjoying it so far, to be honest. The completist in me would slog through the first season even if I didn’t enjoy it though.
Keep in mind, though I’ve been immersed in sci-fi all my life and I’ve definitely seen Star Trek shows before (and all the pre-Abrams movies), but my expectations to this show are largely set by pop culture.
Relative to those expectations, I was really surprised not far into the first episode by how thought-provoking it is. The character of Q was about t as far from (my expectation of) a Star Trek ‘villain’ as I could have imagined.
I love season 1, personally. It does get objectively better, but s1 and 2 have some fun episodes.
The entire first season??!!
I hope you enjoy it! Maybe by the time you finish TNG, you’ll have switched “sides”!
“Sorry, I’m a doctor of English Literature.”
What are you all talking about? Clearly Medical is blue and science is green.
Are you all colorblind?
(/j)
See, Disco had it right. Doctors wore white, compared to the navy blue uniforms of all the other divisions, including Sciences. Presumably during the war someone decided that your medic being conspicuously covered in blood gave a bad impression, that was downgraded to nurses (SNW Chapel) and the doctors wore blue (although the slightly lighter shade than science divison). Then later, nurses got blue as well (TOS Chapel). Or was Chapel a full MD by then? Not sure about that.
In SNW Chapel is a civilian working on a starship because she’s just that good or something, by TOS she’s joined Starfleet.
One has a medical degree, the other a Ph.D. Both are called doctor.
Just whatever you do, do NOT run towards someone wearing red-shirt, in fact run AWAY, run away FAST, run away NOW!:-P
Reno wasn’t even a scientist, and still managed to keep all those people alive on that asteroid. Running to a Starfleet officer is never a bad idea
What was the reason newer series switched to white uniforms for medical?
It’s a welcome change but also SNW is before TOS?
M’Benga still wears blue. Chapel wears white, but she’s also a civilian contractor in SNW and hasn’t joined Starfleet yet, so how her uniform color interacts with everyone else is unclear.
I guess it existed in the DIS era, starts to get phased out by the SNW era (we see Nurse Chapel wearing white but not Dr. M’Benga), and then is phased fully out by the time TOS rolls around.
At least until the LD uniforms come, and they partially reintroduce it in the form of white boots.
I always got the impression that the medical staff doubled as life science experts and that was the reason for the blue.
…unless you’re a horta.
