From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: Uniform colors & insignias   
      
   "OM"  wrote in message    
   news:b0g6l5lq73atrghiahg9iuqcmu4cecuhci@4ax.com:   
      
   > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:16:12 -0600, "John Crane"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >1) I don't see Red anywhere. Apparently there are "Sciences" and "other".   
   >   
   > ...Tweak up the color on your TV set, and you'll notice that there's   
   > three colors: gold, blue and a light "salmon" color, which is what   
   > Scotty was wearing. When the 2nd pilot sold, one of the changes   
   > requested by NBC was that more color was added to the sets and   
   > costumes. Remember that NBC was owned by RCA, and used the network as   
   > a way to sell the then-uberpriced color TV sets RCA was making. The   
   > blues stayed pretty much the same, the gold was actually changed to a   
   > green that showed up as gold under the lighting, and the salmon was   
   > dumped for a bright red. According to Gene at a con in the early 80's,   
   > there was some talk about McCoy having either a green or a white tunic   
   > to reflect what 20th century medicine garb colors, but the white   
   > tended to make him glow and the medical green shades all went to gold   
   > under those hot kleiglights. So they modified his blue tunic so it was   
   > visually different from Spock's.   
      
   Yeah, McCoy's blue uniform had a kind of glossy sheen to it, like satin    
   or something.   
      
   In ST:TMP, McCoy's insignia (the medical cadeuceus) was green.   
      
      
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