Question about ESP and telepaths in TOS

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Regarding redshirts, I imagine security and engineering crews dealing with violent individuals and exploding ship parts probably are more often in situations of imminent personal danger than a scientist reading an ancient codex or a yeoman recording files, much as a police officer, firefighter or soldier is more often in danger than a secretary, cook, or professor. Space and sci-fi evens the odds, but there's still a bigger risk to some roles than others.

 

[Christopher]

Regarding redshirts, I imagine security and engineering crews dealing with violent individuals and exploding ship parts probably are more often in situations of imminent personal danger than a scientist reading an ancient codex or a yeoman recording files, much as a police officer, firefighter or soldier is more often in danger than a secretary, cook, or professor. Space and sci-fi evens the odds, but there's still a bigger risk to some roles than others.

Except engineers and operations personnel also wear red shirts in TOS. For some reason, even historians do (McGivers in "Space Seed" and Erickson in "Yesteryear"), though logically you'd expect them to be in science blue. It's silly to make it about the shirt color.

 

[Henoch]

Except engineers and operations personnel also wear red shirts in TOS. For some reason, even historians do (McGivers in "Space Seed" and Erickson in "Yesteryear"), though logically you'd expect them to be in science blue. It's silly to make it about the shirt color.

Ship's historian was title (McGivers probably got a degree in history), and for 99.9% of the time, no purpose of a starship (just like in real life ). She was most likely in Engineering as some sort of equipment specialist for her real job. YMMV.