Colour of the doctor's shirt

[Jeanway 0]

So where's the picture? I don't see a picture <_<

[sea trooper 0]

Check the shoulders on that guy! :)

 

 

Is this green, or is it green?

 

Edited April 22, 2004 by sea trooper

[hangon 3]

I had to look at it a bit but to me it looks green :)

[Nemesis 0]

It is blue, although science was intiatially going to be green they decided on making them both blue.

[WEAREBORG4102 0]

It's neither...

It's turquoise...

:)

It's green..

[Captain Jean-Luc Picard 1]

It's neither blue nor green. It's turquoise which sometimes looks blue and sometimes looks green. :)

[HRH The KING 0]

I read somewhere that the Medical colour is "Teal"

 

[sea trooper 0]

Teal is just fancy-talk for Turquoise

[HRH The KING 0]

No.

 

Teal is a lot darker than turquiose.

 

[Alexander32 0]

I would say the lighting, although it is more greener than blue through most of the eps.

[Star Trek Fan 0]

I watched many times, and I saw that it is...

Click for Spoiler:

GREEN!!!

[ddillard 2]

I say blue.

[Q stole my bike 0]

I say it's blue-green

[Captain Holland 0]

I think it is Blue. Because blue is the official medical uniform color.

[borgdrone222 0]

Green

[He Who Shall Not Be Named 2]

The correct answer is teal. It is closer to green than blue, but you need to have a really good TV to see the subtle difference.

 

It would make sense for Medical to have their own color. After all, you do need them to be recognised quickly, no?

[please delete 0]

it's neather it's a teal colour... or so the costume patterns usually say...

[He Who Shall Not Be Named 2]

Yup. I stand by teal leaning towards green.

 

First of all, as I said earlier, medical should have their own color so you could differentiate them from scientific personnel in a crisis. When you are pressed for time you wouldn't want to take your plasma burn to an archaeologist.

 

You might say "What about engineers and security? They have the same uniform." Yes and no. In a crisis security are going to be armed. You would spot them easily even though everything else is the same. Plus in a military setting wearable equipment, such as holstered phasers, are considered part of the uniform just as handcuffs (and weapons) are considered part of a cop's uniform.

 

Second, while doctors are scientific, they are not scientists in that they are not doing research or experimentation per se. Granted sometimes they do engage in medical research, and in this case they are acting as scientists, but it isn't the norm.

 

Third, doctors are noncombattants and need to be recognized easily as such. Now of course when someone is a "noncombatant" in today's language it usually means that there is some international rules of engagement, such as our Geneva Convention, that specifies themselves as such. We don't know if the same thing exists in the 24th century but it isn't unreasonable to speculate the existance of such.

 

Now what we don't know is if this color scheme was maintained when the colored shirts and colored shoulders were replaced with those very thin color bands at the wrist and at the neck. There just isn't enough material to tell.

[GhostofMajorHayes 10]

It looks blue to me.

[Bethlehem 7]

What color does green and blue make? Anyways I thought it was RED.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named 2]

Wait a minute. I just realised the topic title says "colour", not "color". Maybe Brittish TVs are different.