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Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Thu Dec 23, 2021 3:25 pm Hope all is well with you all, and that you have a very good Christmas and a happy new year.
Have a fantastic Christmas!

Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 5:50 pm
One question, though: I thought that in ST, the man in the red suit always dies?

goatmeal wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 8:47 pm

Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 5:50 pm
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...

DeadPoolX wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 3:54 am

goatmeal wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 8:47 pm

Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 5:50 pm
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.

Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Mon Dec 27, 2021 4:29 pm 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.