I’ve never seen Star Trek TOS so I don’t know for sure if this is explained anywhere. Does anyone know why they made the switch from red shirts to yellow shirts between commanding officers and security between TOS and TNG?

  • CarlsIII@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Militaries change uniforms all the time, sometimes arbitrarily. Some board comes up with the change and then everyone complains or makes fun of it at first and then eventually everyone just accepts it. Also, there were at least 3 uniform changes between TOS and TNG that we know of. The ones we’ve seen before TNG (ST2-ST6) are all red.

    • Hobbes@startrek.websiteEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      And I think that sheds some light on it. Lots of positions were not red like enlisted officers white engineering uniforms, so it was really only all red for officers. If the highest ranked were red, then they go back to multiple colors, it would make sense for the command cluster to keep red.

    • MongosteinEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah that’s right, Kirk was wearing red by the movies.