Yep. During Viet Nam they instructed officers to remove their rank devices to keep from getting sniped. The practice may have started sooner - not 100% sure when - but it became common practice in Nam. Subdued insignia came out of that.
i don’t think there are many chance of getting in a sniper’s scope while standing on the bridge of your ship.
so has identification technology. I hope they don’t rely on eyesight to identify a target when they could lock on their genome, katra or whatever!
I had wondered the same thing, but I finally saw another red uniform on Disco, aside from Saru and Michael, in last night’s episode, S04E02 Anomaly. Spoiler: A non-Captain red shirt appears At the moment when Tilly begins talking with Culber, from about 41:10-41:19 as Hugh exits a turbo lift, there is a Disco crew member wearing red, and who, from the ears, I believe appears to be Vulcan or Romulan.
I know the new uniforms are a mixed bag, but I like them. Star Trek just doesn't feel "complete" without the color coded uniforms. It was the one weak spot I felt for "ENT" and I had for "DISCO" for a while. I like them. *Shrugs*
Yeah, it's hard to see the Starfleet delta on the new combadges. I wish the badges were just in the shape of the delta instead of having it engraved into the oval.
This is probably the smallest nitpick ever, but...what's with that gray stripe? What function does it have? What logical purpose does it serve? Everybody has it, so it's not like a division thing. I mean, the S3 uniforms also had the stripe, but it was the division color on an otherwise gray uniform. THAT made sense. This, as far as I can tell, doesn't.
Design-wise it serves to break up a big block of color, so as to provide a little more visual interest in the overall look.
I like the 32c unis, both gray and color-coded. Color-coded looks better, Imho, and I appreciate that Vance retained his "admiralty greys". Now, if the hem could be symmetrical... Tactical/security now wear operations gold, as evidenced by Lt. Commander Rhys. I wonder what Lieutenant Willa will be dressed in next time we see her?
Quite frankly, if we're talking realism about the uniforms... even if Captains don't have wildly different rank devices than lower-ranked officers, separating divisions by the primary color of their uniforms does nothing but invite a sniper to shoot at anyone wearing red. Not to mention, flag officers still have uniforms that make it really easy to tell them apart from mere line officers. The only reason to color-code uniforms is to compensate for low visibility, like gunpowder smoke in 18th-century musket regiments, or to make their functions easily distinguishable in an extremely high-stress and swift-paced, dangerous environment, like the bright-colored jerseys of flight deck crews on aircraft carriers. There is literally no practical reason for Starfleet not to simply make everyone wear camouflage or utility uniforms while working, and have service dress reserved for reporting duty and desk jobs, with only pins or maybe a bit of colored piping/lapel details denoting their branch. The one problem with this, as best exemplified by the monster maroons from the '80s, especially the turtleneck-less versions made for TNG flashbacks, is that they're nigh-impossible to distinguish on TV. You can either make it realistic or easy to follow for the average viewer, but not both at the same time.