Blue alert is the default on Discovery.
Why not 'Blue Alert' for DASH drive?
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Black is a color, or rather lack-thereof that is easy to notice as well. If you are of a species that can't see red very well or distinguish red from yellow, etc, some of those color codes will be meaningless and you'll just have to go the vocal alert. turning non essential lights off will get your attention, though.
One of those things that is a trek staple but doesn't necessarily make sense. Like "yellow alert" what actually changes on yellow alert? They always tend to say "Red alert, shields up" . ok. fine. but why isn't it automatically assumed that sheilds go up the minute you say red alert. For that matter why weren't they up on yellow alert? doesn't seem all that alert. Maybe it should be Yellow Increased Awareness or something. They should just go with General Quarters and Battlestations but that opportunity flew the coop long ago.
Chartreuse Alert All hands to the liqueur.
One of those things that is a trek staple but doesn't necessarily make sense. Like "yellow alert" what actually changes on yellow alert? They always tend to say "Red alert, shields up" . ok. fine. but why isn't it automatically assumed that sheilds go up the minute you say red alert. For that matter why weren't they up on yellow alert? doesn't seem all that alert. Maybe it should be Yellow Increased Awareness or something. They should just go with General Quarters and Battlestations but that opportunity flew the coop long ago.
Chartreuse Alert All hands to the liqueur.
I'm reminded of Iron Man 3...
Tony: "He's Iron Patriot now."
Harley: "That's way cooler!"
Tony: "No it's not."
"Begin burnt sienna alert!"
Ah. so you were one of those kids with the deluxe crayon box.
The only thing I can think of about yellow and red alerts and why the shields don't automatically go up is that maybe there could be some transporting going on at the same time as an alert is called, and the shields could disrupt it (although we've seen time and again that transporting through the shields still happens even if it isn't supposed to...). That way the shields would need to be raised at a slightly later time.
But now I think I've overanalyzed it lol.
It's called Black Alert because they go full CSI Blacklight mode to check for ummm... spore residue, so you have to make sure you have clean sheets or you won't get a five star rating from Trip Advisor, which is literally an elderly Trip Tucker grading you on your cleanliness and advising you how to improve.
They don't go to Bleu Alert because they already tried all the other cheeses and they didn't work either.
Say it aint soThey base their alerts on Weezer albums.
Once you go black...
Once you go black, you never go back... to blue that is
*Ninja'd by enterprise is great*
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