civilian teacher with ten six-year-olds on a field trip in the Arberitum
Picard, over comms: “ALL HANDS ABANDON SHIP!! REPEAT, ALL HAND-“
Remember that time they separated the saucer before going into battle?
Yeah, neither does Picard.
I like how they show it right at the start of the series, letting you know this will be a regular occurrence.
My theory is that it made the writing too easy and was an escape out of half the challenges they face, so they stopped using that as a solution in the show.
That, plus pacing and special-effects budget (assuming they don’t just want to reuse the same footage every time, like a magical girl transformation in a low-budget anime).
A botanist isn’t going to be much help on a warp core, so might as well keep on with their botany work unless otherwise directed
They really need to rethink their uniform colors. Command Red is pretty straight forward.
If there’s a security threat and you go rushing down the corridor, you’d wanna know if the Gold tunic you come across is a security officer or a someone who only works on EPS conduits.
You inadvertently brought back a rare disease from the away mission and are covered in a crazy rash. You’d wanna know the Blue tunic you see is from medical, a botanist or geologist…
Black uniform: You have fucked up, or you will fuck up, or you are being recruited to fuck shit up, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
That’s basically the same idea as what navies do on aircraft carrier decks: each role wears a different colour basically head-to-toe.
In this case, I think the colours should be more reserved for operational duties - command red, bridge orange, medic green, engineering purple, combat/security black, etc. and anyone else not in an operations role would wear a navy blue and their specific role could use insignia like atomicbocks commented in a sibling to this comment
In TOS they had a different emblem in the center of the patch that later became the combadge. In fact originally each ship was going to have a different patch, though you can only see this in like one episode. Though this image doesnt show it I have also seen a Red Cross used for the medical emblem.
Yeah I always figured it’d be insane trying to have a different emblem for each ship. Because would Sisko’s Defiant have the same emblem as the lost to the Tholians? If they have the same emblems why not registries?
factoid: Sulu was originally meant to be a physicist with a passion for botany. After early episodes his character was changed to helmsman with a passion for botany.
