Merry Christmas!

[Rath Darkblade]

Hope all is well with you all, and that you have a very good Christmas and a happy new year.

Here's a little Christmas gift I created (nope, no Santas or snow or anything like that)...

Have a fantastic Christmas!

[Tawmis]

Hope all is well with you all, and that you have a very good Christmas and a happy new year.
Have a fantastic Christmas!

Happy Holidays, or Happy Time Off Work, Or Happy Normal Days! Whatever the case may be, to one and all here.

[Rath Darkblade]

Sigh. Apart from Christmas Day, Boxing Day (26 December) and New Year's Day, I don't get any time off.

[Tawmis]

Happy Holidays everyone!

[notbobsmith]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! This is the time of year when a man in a red suit brings joy and happiness to all!

[Rath Darkblade]

OK, I wasn't ready for "Make it so". It made me smile, even with my headache. Thanks, NBS

One question, though: I thought that in ST, the man in the red suit always dies?

[goatmeal]

One question, though: I thought that in ST, the man in the red suit always dies?

That was true in the original series (TOS):

Yellow = Command / Navigation
Blue = Sciences
Red = Security / Engineering / Operations

But by the time of The Next Generation (TNG), they changed red and yellow:

Red = Command / Navigation
Blue = Sciences
Yellow = Security / Engineering / Operations

HOWEVER, you will find exceptions in TNG where some characters wear a color that doesn't appear to match their occupation...

[Tawmis]

[MusicallyInspired]

Merry Christmas! I'm still 22 minutes away here so I'm off to bed real quick (long day of prep, we're hosting Christmas dinner this year for my parents for a change in our new house we just moved into). Hope you guys enjoy your holidays.

[DeadPoolX]

One question, though: I thought that in ST, the man in the red suit always dies?

That was true in the original series (TOS):

Yellow = Command / Navigation
Blue = Sciences
Red = Security / Engineering / Operations

But by the time of The Next Generation (TNG), they changed red and yellow:

Red = Command / Navigation
Blue = Sciences
Yellow = Security / Engineering / Operations

HOWEVER, you will find exceptions in TNG where some characters wear a color that doesn't appear to match their occupation...

And just to make matters more complicated... in TOS the gold shirt wasn't even gold (or yellow). In reality, it was lime green, but due to the way the color cameras worked, the material the shirts were made out of, and something having to do with the studio lighting, those lime green shirts ended up looking gold on TV.

Oddly enough, Kirk's dress uniform and wrap-around variant uniform — both of which he wore at least once — actually showed up as lime green (probably due to the material being different) on TV and likely confused more than a few viewers.

Whatever the case, gold eventually became canonized as the color of command in TOS instead of lime green, so you'll never see a TOS-era Command shirt in its original color. In future shows (such as a DS9 episode where some members of the DS9 crew time travel and have to blend into the crew of the TOS-era Enterprise) the Command shirt was shown as gold because by that time that's what people expected.

[notbobsmith]

One question, though: I thought that in ST, the man in the red suit always dies?

That was true in the original series (TOS):

Yellow = Command / Navigation
Blue = Sciences
Red = Security / Engineering / Operations

But by the time of The Next Generation (TNG), they changed red and yellow:

Red = Command / Navigation
Blue = Sciences
Yellow = Security / Engineering / Operations

HOWEVER, you will find exceptions in TNG where some characters wear a color that doesn't appear to match their occupation...

And just to make matters more complicated... in TOS the gold shirt wasn't even gold (or yellow). In reality, it was lime green, but due to the way the color cameras worked, the material the shirts were made out of, and something having to do with the studio lighting, those lime green shirts ended up looking gold on TV.

Oddly enough, Kirk's dress uniform and wrap-around variant uniform — both of which he wore at least once — actually showed up as lime green (probably due to the material being different) on TV and likely confused more than a few viewers.

Whatever the case, gold eventually became canonized as the color of command in TOS instead of lime green, so you'll never see a TOS-era Command shirt in its original color. In future shows (such as a DS9 episode where some members of the DS9 crew time travel and have to blend into the crew of the TOS-era Enterprise) the Command shirt was shown as gold because by that time that's what people expected.

I was actually surprised to learn they were originally green. With the red and blue uniforms, it looked like they were going with a primary color theme.

The color was "changed" to gold/yellow as early as the Star Trek Animated Series. The animators thought the uniforms were yellow and used that color for the paint.

[MusicallyInspired]

That's so fascinating. I had never heard that before.

[Rath Darkblade]

On a more serious note, I wasn't able to share Christmas dinner with family because at the concerts I did, at St Paul's, someone attended with COVID and didn't tell anyone. I've no idea if he/she was someone from the choir(s) or from the audience, but it doesn't matter.

As a result, all three choirs and the entire audience had to go and be tested. I didn't hear about it from the Department of Health until Thursday afternoon, five days after the concert and the day before Christmas Eve. First thing after breakfast on Christmas eve, I went and got tested, but I had to be isolated the entire Christmas weekend and so missed out on Christmas Eve dinner with family.

P.S. I tested negative, so I'm OK. But I'm still angry at that selfish so-and-so who put us all in danger.

[Tawmis]

On a more serious note, I wasn't able to share Christmas dinner with family because at the concerts I did, at St Paul's, someone attended with COVID and didn't tell anyone. I've no idea if he/she was someone from the choir(s) or from the audience, but it doesn't matter.
As a result, all three choirs and the entire audience had to go and be tested. I didn't hear about it from the Department of Health until Thursday afternoon, five days after the concert and the day before Christmas Eve. First thing after breakfast on Christmas eve, I went and got tested, but I had to be isolated the entire Christmas weekend and so missed out on Christmas Eve dinner with family.
P.S. I tested negative, so I'm OK. But I'm still angry at that selfish so-and-so who put us all in danger.

Yeah, something similar happened with my sister in Texas.
My nephew's wife (who is pregnant) - and her mother and father were at my sister's house (which had my sister, her husband and my mother) - turns out, she has COVID.
As does her parents, who also came over.
No idea who had it first - but now my sister, brother in law, and mother all need to get tested. And my mother has numerous health issues.
So now I am stressed.

[Rath Darkblade]

Sorry to hear that, Tawm. *hug* Hopefully everyone will be OK, especially your mother. Best of luck to everyone!