Most innane and banal thread ever...

[Orcus]

Have you ever found yourself wondering banal, inappropriate thoughts that are both innane and insane simultaneously and at the same time...?

Here's a little piece of geek-thought:

I've often wondered where people would fit into the Enterprise - according to their job; what colour shirt would they wear. If the Enterprise is/was anything to go by there would, no doubt, be more redshirts than any other colour...

So... what colour shirt would everyone here wear? And where would they fit in?

I'll start the ball rolling: I'd be a BLUEshirt in the medical area/thingy...

 

[Middle Earther]

I want to wear the cool green with the sideways insignia that Kirk always wore. However, I think that, being a teacher and a graduate student in English I would probably be, what...red? I remember that the Historian wore red for "Space Seed" - would that mean all of the humanities.

 

[Rulius]

I would think that would be blue under sciences? I never understood why she wore red,,,*shrugs

 

[Jeri]

Get me a gold one -- that's an order!

 

[SonicRanger]

Easy: both the geology officer and the archaeology & anthropology officer wore blue.

 

[Myasishchev]

The Starfleet JAG from Court Martial wore red, so I guess I'm in Operations.

Although how "lawyering" got lumped into the same category as "engine fixing skills" and "taking phaser bolts meant for main characters" baffles me.

Clearly, we ought to be in Command Division gold in the TOS era, as administrative personnel. Or at least Science blue, as juris doctors.

I want to wear the cool green with the sideways insignia that Kirk always wore. However, I think that, being a teacher and a graduate student in English I would probably be, what...red? I remember that the Historian wore red for "Space Seed" - would that mean all of the humanities.

Hey, you're right. Maybe they do put all humanities in red for some arcane reason. But I'll echo the sentiment that McGivers really should've been in blue herself.

 

[ElScoob]

The Starfleet JAG from Court Martial wore red, so I guess I'm in Operations.

Although how "lawyering" got lumped into the same category as "engine fixing skills" and "taking phaser bolts meant for main characters" baffles me.

It's a 23rd century historical artifact, dating from the Shakespearean maxim of the Post-Atomic Horror: kill all the lawyers. They don't actively pursue that ideal any more, but they figure issuing lawyers red shirts might help things along a little.

--g

 

[Myasishchev]

The Starfleet JAG from Court Martial wore red, so I guess I'm in Operations.

Although how "lawyering" got lumped into the same category as "engine fixing skills" and "taking phaser bolts meant for main characters" baffles me.

It's a 23rd century historical artifact, dating from the Shakespearean maxim of the Post-Atomic Horror: kill all the lawyers. They don't actively pursue that ideal any more, but they figure issuing lawyers red shirts might help things along a little.

--g

 

[Red Ranger]

Well, as a writer, I guess I'd be in red, then, as a kind of operations field. Or maybe I'd be records officer, like Finney, which means I'd be in gold. -- RR

 

[Myko]

McGivers should've worn blue, but the actress looked better in Red, so there you go.

Blue for me, computer sciences.

 

[Pauln6]

I'd want to wear a TMP muscle t-shirt with yellow shoulder straps for ops. By far the most fetching uniform apart from the mini-skirt.

TOS was a bit insonsistent on the colours. I think McGyvers was actually an engineer who was also trained in history so she wore red. Otherwise her job would have involved sitting around on the ship waiting to stumble across an ancient piece of Earth history - pretty limited posting! Same for Mulhall, the 'astrobiologist'. Bureacracy is also part of services in TOS hence yeomen and laywers tended to wear red. They'd probably been reclassified as yellow ops by TMP.

 

[Hambone]

As a musician, I'd be a member of the Starfleet Band. A red shirt, but with a little treble clef in the middle of the delta insignia. Super-lame.

 

[Hambone]

I think McGyvers was actually an engineer who was also trained in history so she wore red.

Plus, she wore Ensign's rank but everyone kept referring to her a Lieutenant. Maybe she misplaced her uniform.

 

[Cakes488]

Have you ever found yourself wondering banal, inappropriate thoughts that are both innane and insane simultaneously and at the same time...?

Here's a little piece of geek-thought:

I've often wondered where people would fit into the Enterprise - according to their job; what colour shirt would they wear. If the Enterprise is/was anything to go by there would, no doubt, be more redshirts than any other colour...

So... what colour shirt would everyone here wear? And where would they fit in?

I'll start the ball rolling: I'd be a BLUEshirt in the medical area/thingy...

Um yeah I definitely do have inappropriate thoughts probably more than your average teenage boy...but ummmmm not about this!

 

[Wingsley]

Oh, people... people...

Let's be imaginative here? Why stick to only certain colors?

I say go for either an all-black uniform (spec ops?) or maybe an orange one...

 

[Orcus]

Well, as a writer, I guess I'd be in red, then, as a kind of operations field. Or maybe I'd be records officer, like Finney, which means I'd be in gold. -- RR

Ah... that changes things a bit. I'm in Medical Records these days so would that make me a Gold shirt, then? Or am I still Blue?

 

[Orcus]

Oh, people... people...

Let's be imaginative here? Why stick to only certain colors?

I say go for either an all-black uniform (spec ops?) or maybe an orange one...

You could always go with "The Cage", I suppose, and be a Beige one...

 

[Brutal Strudel]

I teach English in a high school and a few college classes through a university partnership with the nearby community colleges. I guess that would make me a blue shirt if you see my job as falling under library sciences--though, come to think of it, the one historian we've seen in TOS was Marla McGivers and she wore red.

EDIT: I see the McGivers issue has been discussed.

 

[Pemmer Harge]

My last few jobs have been lowly temp jobs, so I think I'd be a Redshirt. Oh dear, might be a good idea to get out of Starfleet as soon as possible.

 

[Orcus]

My last few jobs have been lowly temp jobs, so I think I'd be a Redshirt. Oh dear, might be a good idea to get out of Starfleet as soon as possible.

Nothing wrong with that - the Redshirts always looked the most professional and uniform-like to me... And you can always think "Man Trap" or "Where No Man..." to see which colour gets the death card...