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  2. From: scott.hollifield@the-matrix.com (Scott Hollifield) 
  3. Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
  4. Subject: Re: Uniform Colors in TNG
  5. Message-ID: <9536.406.uupcb@the-matrix.com>
  6. Date: 30 Dec 92 18:09:00 GMT
  7. Distribution: world
  8. Organization: The MATRIX BBS - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016
  9. Reply-To: scott.hollifield@the-matrix.com (Scott Hollifield) 
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  12. On 28 Dec 92 17:49:43 GMT, rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon) wrote:
  13.  
  14. MR>I would disagree, given that Data (the science officer) wears a gold, not a
  15. MR>blue, uniform.
  16.  
  17. Data is *not* the (or even A) science officer.  This has been stated
  18. repeatedly by Rick Berman and Brent Spiner at cons.
  19.  
  20. MR>Gold    Hard Sciences, Engineering & Support Services (including Security)
  21. MR>        (Data, LaForge, Worf, O'Brien)
  22.  
  23. What IS a "hard science"?  Maddox, a cyberneticist, wore blue in "The Measure
  24. of a Man".  Ensign Janeway, a physicist, wore blue in "Schisms".
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  27.               \  "Let us think the unthinkable, let us   /   scott.hollifield
  28.               /   do the undoable.  Let us prepare to    \   @the-matrix.com
  29.               \  grapple with the ineffable itself, and  /
  30.               /    see if we may not eff it after all."  \
  31.               \_              --- Dirk Gently           _/
  32.                 \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
  33.  
  34. ---
  35.  . OLX 2.1 TD . Permission to bust the commander's head, sir. . Ro
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