It’s in “By Any Other Name” isn’t it that an angsty hot female crew member got crushed, leaving the black red shirt of all people to survive.
What does blue signify?
Blue is Sciences & Medicine.
I’ve always thought that Medicine should have a separate color, as McCoy did not answer to Spock in the latter’s Chief Science Officer guise. But what I wrote above–about the various doctors and nurses having to do double-duty in the biology department, so that there would be enough medical staff on hand in the event of an emergency but they’d not be idle most of the time–would explain it. And it’s canon that Chapel had a doctorate in biochemistry, which I would think lends support to my otherwise-baseless hypothesis.
Oh yeah, Riley, too. But it’s safe to assume he was a permanent Lieutenant (junior grade), if only for his singing.
No Dance Tonight.:mad:
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And his uniform was made out of a different material and in a different style, so there is that…
Am re-rewatching Wrath of Khan tonight. 
McCoy wore two distinct uniforms: one was the standard blue long sleeve job, the other was a short sleeved, satiny “working” uniform.
Satiny seemed to equate to medicine in TOS and (IIRC) some bits of TNG. Even sticking plasters had to be made of that spangly looking stuff. Perhaps they were getting in on the antiseptic qualities of silver
Yes, I know. I was referring to his shiny, short sleeved one.
Yes, but your statement acted as if McCoy’s uniform was always distinct. For all we know, Spock has a similar working uniform when he’s in the lab working with icky stuff.
We’ve seen Spock in the lab–in “The Deadly Years”–and he was wearing his usual. And I shuold think long-sleeved shirts would be more likely than short-sleeved ones for the chem lab.
Transparent aluminum, perhaps?
Likewise in “The Trouble With Tribbles.”
:rolleyes: Here, let me transport you off this ship and onto a hostile planet…
It seems to me that while I know Kirk best in his yellow, black collar shirt, he seemed to spend a great deal of time in that weird green V neck number. Thioughts? And the uniforms for Star Trek the first movie, sucked. They look like dental hygienists.
I just watched ST 4 last night. Whale of a movie. <dorky chuckle here>
The usual fanwank about Kirk’s green V-neck uniform (http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/thumb/1/17/Kirk_Bashir_and_Obrien.jpg/300px-Kirk_Bashir_and_Obrien.jpg) was that, as captain, he had the discretion to choose a uniform style for himself, so long as the Starfleet arrowhead and his rank insignia were shown. Picard did something similar in ST:TNG (http://www.treksinscifi.com/trekdaily/pictures/2008-03-06-Darmok.jpg).
And I kinda liked the ST:TMP uniforms (http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1019861/photo_08_hires.jpg)… but I agree the ones just after that (in ST:TWOK and after that, http://www.blam1.com/startrek/images/FilmCast.jpg) were better.
It should be noted that in the TOS era, the familiar arrowhead was not the Starfleet insignia, but the Enterprise assignment patch. At some point between TOS and the movies, they changed the Starfleet insignia to the Enterprise insignia, and got rid of assignment patches.
It’s not entirely clear what the purpose of the wraparound uniform is, but Memory Alpha’s page on the TOS-era uniforms suggests it was a standard variant - which itself had several variants.
It was a wraparound. That’s why it was so weird.
I liked the idea of the wraparound if not the exectuion, and Picard’s jacket ensemble as well. The captain shouldn’t dress exactly like the crew.