The Wand Company TOS Tricorder is coming!

Number 6 said:
Beginning to sound like a Monty Python skit

There is only three insignia patches: Command, Sciences and Engineering.
And Medical.
Right! Four insignia patches: Command, Sciences, Engineering and Medical!
And Miscellaneous.
Right! Five insignia patches: Command, Sciences, Engineering, Medical and Miscellaneous!
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"AMONGST our insignia patches, are such designs as Command, Science... I'll come in again."
 
CessnaDriver said:
Man, what did these guys have to do? Can't be good!!!! All the stuff that makes the Trekkian "utopia" possible no doubt. LOL
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jts1031 said:
How many insignia patches were in TOS?

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That bit in that episode has always bugged me. The episode was doing so well, and then they put in the lights bit, which is a direct lift from the 1984 film version of 1984, with Richard Burton (O'Brien) and John Hurt (Winston Smith) doing the exact same 4 lights/5 lights thing. In the book, O'Brien just holds up four fingers--they changed it to lights for the film. When I see a blatant ripoff like that, it takes me right out of the story every time.
 
asalaw said:
It's the Greek letter Gamma, used right in the front of the FJ Tech Manual as the header for "General Section." Apart from that I don't think it means anything.

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Ah geez, I should have figured it was from the Tech manual too. I have it in PDF, I need to look through it again.

So only Star Fleet Generals wore that. No wonder we didn't see it on the show. :p
 
JiminSTLouis said:
I always considered officers like Uhura and Rand as Operations (or Ops), but Support Services works too I guess. I’ve just never heard it before. I wouldn’t consider them Engineering.

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Uhura wore command at first, then quickly changed it, I think when it was clear she was going to be on the bridge behind Kirk all the time, I bet credits to Navy beans it was because they wanted to sell more color TVs.
 
Lightning said:
I always heard it was because Nichols simply looked better in red.
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She would have looked good in anything, but yeah I've heard that too and shes impossible to ignore in the background. I find it interesting Gilligan's Island also had red and blue shirts. They did start off in B&W though. Batman had a lot costumes that popped on color TV. I'm convinced there were some kind of industry incentives going on.
 
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