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Taldrenites => General Starfleet Command Forum => Topic started by: Don Karnage on March 06, 2005, 07:13:21 pm
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in almost all the episode of startrek the use a plastic square plate (like when use a floppy disk) for the computer, my question is does the color have a signification or not?, the blue, red, yellow etc?
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If you ask me, I think the meaning of a square disk's color is the equivalent of the meaning of a floppy disk's color. Of course you could take advantage of different colors and give them meaning (whether you had labels on the floppy disks or not) to help order some data you wanted to put on the floppies. I think the same could be said for TOS disks, so my final thinking is that they could have meaning, but is up to the person using 'em.
To make an example, lets say I worked on the (NCC-1701) Enterprise's computer core. In my quarters, I have six yellow disks, six blue disks, six red discs that I can freely use on my computer. If there are no way to label these disks, I'd narrow down what I want and organize data by color-coding. Recreation (games and literature) can be blue as blue's my favorite color. Work can be red, considering that since I have an enginerring-specific job and I would wear a red shirt (but luckily live through the five-year mission!). Yellow can be for keeping up with personal stuff, like messages from a loved one or something as it's left over from the two other color choices.
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that's what i taught ;D
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the blue, red, yellow etc?
Blue - sciences/medical
Yellow (gold) - command
Red - Engineering/security
Coded by user?
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I should've been faster in updating my message... *shrug* But I can see the point was made already. But I figured Nemesis's classification only was for shirts and types of duty, to easier identify crewmen/officers at work aboard starships, and not extending to disks.
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More likely they were just having too much fun making a color tv show back then while some shows were still black and white at the same time. (1966)
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And as a follow up Question, what was the Combination of Kirks safe?
Stephen Needing to get a life. ;)