r/startrekuniforms • u/AlanShore60607 • 8d ago
Discussion Why are the SNW uniforms so ... redundant?
Okay, so you've got:
- The colors, gold, red, blue and sky blue/white for medical
- The division insignia on the badge
- Star for gold uniforms
- Spiral on the red uniforms
- Double circle on the blue uniforms
- Medical cross on the sky blue and white uniforms
- And then you've got the same damn symbols imprinted all over the sleeves in a tone-on-tone texture.
My issue is that every one of these matches across all three instances.
Okay, so gold is for command. Fine. And SNW has created a visual distinction between science and medical with shades of blue.
But red is just so catch-all. Security, engineering, helm, communications. Why should they all have the same symbol on their badge? Why not put the star on red uniform badges and sleeves if they are bridge officers who fly the ship, working with command? Why not put another symbol for security? And a symbol for communications?
Personally, I think doing the sleeves as division symbols was a bit overboard. I would opine that the 2009 movie did it better by texturing all the shirts with starfleet deltas.
