From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net   
   Subject: Re: Uniform colors & insignias   
      
   In article ,   
    Wickeddoll  wrote:   
      
   > Your Name wrote:   
   > > "John Crane" .   
   > >> OK, we all know:   
   > >>   
   > >> Gold, star  = command   
   > >> Blue, eye  = sciences   
   > >> Red, curved lightning bolt = engineering & ships services   
   > >    
   > > No, red is for superfluous ensigns who'll die during the episode.  ;-)   
   >    
   > I thought the same thing!   
   > >    
   > > The colours and styles of the uniforms were changed in the various shows   
   and   
   > > movies, so there isn't really any useful significance you can attach to   
   > > them.   
   > >    
   > >    
   >    
   > I stopped trying to figure it out decades ago.   
      
   For the shift from yellow to red for command, you can blame Patrick    
   Stewart.   
      
   --    
   As Adam West as Bruce Wayne as Batman said in "Smack in the Middle"     
   the second half of the 1966 BATMAN series pilot when Jill St. John    
   as Molly as Robin as Molly fell into the Batmobile's atomic pile:     
   "What a way to go-go"   
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