Why No Red Ships?

[AdmiralGarak]

StarryEyed said:
Now there's the answer! Red shirts = bad. Red ships = real bad! How about being a redshirt on a red ship?

I figure the universe would forbid it. For example, if a redshirt attempted to enter the airlock of a red ship, the airlock would explode, killing the poor redshirt and decompressing the entire ship. If a redshirt tried to beam inside of a red ship, the transporter would malfunction, beaming him into the anti-matter containment pods.

 

[Apogeal Alpha01]

Red is a very nice color. It also seems to be the color of mid-life crisis.

Red Ranger, are you about to buy yourself that red Corvette you've always wanted?

 

[UnknownSample]

Red Ranger said:
People,

Here's a silly question. In the beginning, in TOS, most of the ships, whether Federation or not, seemed to be a grey-white color. With TSFS, we saw the first ship with a different color metal: the green Klingon Bird of Prey.

After that, we saw a variety of colors: a bronze for the Ferengi ships, green for Romulan ships, and golden for Cardassian ships. And we've seen bluish hulls, even a black hull for the pirate smuggler ship in the first part of TNG ep, "Unification."

But there's never been a red metal vessel. Why? WHY?

Kind of kidding, but if all those other colors can be represented, why not red?

Red Ranger

Original Trek starships were just plain white. It's only in the DS9 tribble episode and Remastered that they become greyish.

As for there being few red ships.... look at the guy painting Red Dwarf in their title sequence... would you want that job?

 

[EnsignRicky]

I've noticed that when coloring ships, with a few exceptions, they tend to go with soft pastels, and a powdered red would end up looking pink. And that just wouldn't work too well in first contact situations.

 

[Tralis]

Deeper, more saturated colors are more of a B5 thing anyway. A soft red is pink, which would look awful.

Plus, maybe there are red ships but none of them survive long enough to make it on screen?

 

[EnsignRicky]

Although the Reavers seemed to like the idea of painting ships red

 

[MikeH92467]

FordSVT said:
Red is piss poor to deal with on film?

I think that's the real reason. Red is very difficult to deal with under the NTSC (never the same color twice) standard. It often comes across as "busy" and the differing shades are difficult to balance properly.

It may be a different story under HDTV, but I'm just guessing.

 

[Dorothy_Zbornak]

UnknownSample said:

Red Ranger said:
People,

Here's a silly question. In the beginning, in TOS, most of the ships, whether Federation or not, seemed to be a grey-white color. With TSFS, we saw the first ship with a different color metal: the green Klingon Bird of Prey.

After that, we saw a variety of colors: a bronze for the Ferengi ships, green for Romulan ships, and golden for Cardassian ships. And we've seen bluish hulls, even a black hull for the pirate smuggler ship in the first part of TNG ep, "Unification."

But there's never been a red metal vessel. Why? WHY?

Kind of kidding, but if all those other colors can be represented, why not red?

Red Ranger

Original Trek starships were just plain white. It's only in the DS9 tribble episode and Remastered that they become greyish.

As for there being few red ships.... look at the guy painting Red Dwarf in their title sequence... would you want that job?

I always thought the Starfleet vessels seemed like they had a slight blueish tint, enough that when I did my original 1701 model I added a bit of blue to the white paint.

Could've been my TV...

 

[Therin of Andor]

UnknownSample said:
Original Trek starships were just plain white. It's only in the DS9 tribble episode and Remastered that they become greyish.

No, the models were always grey. They only looked white on film due to lighting and the process used to combine the SPFX with the rest of the footage.

 

[captcalhoun]

Red makes you go faster!!
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[AJBryant]

Tralis said:
Deeper, more saturated colors are more of a B5 thing anyway. A soft red is pink, which would look awful

It's not pink. It's lightish-red.


Tony