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[cuddlesquid]

Know what I love about being an adult?

You can buy your cereal based on the toys and shit in the box and nobody gives a fuck.

In related news, I now have a light-up Engineering badge. I'm going to mount this sucker on a pin and wear it on my shirt.

ETA: Oh god, you know what I just realized? Having grown up on TNG, it's always been Just The Way

Comments

[dancesontrains]

I think the uniform change might have been because Redshirts were such a joke?

[cuddlesquid]

lol I'm imagining this happening at Starfleet headquarters now.

"Officers, it is the opinion of this Special Commission that, pursuant to careful review of our flagship's logs, we make a change in Starfleet uniform protocol. Apparently Starfleet officers wearing standard Engineering red tend to die horribly at least five times as often as other officers."

[dancesontrains]

Engineering and Security red! IDK why they had to share a uniform.

[cuddlesquid]

Because Vulcans and Romulans didn't want to have to wear green shirts since you couldn't tell if they were seriously wounded or not? I guess?

[mustloveroses]

But engineering guys aren't the ones killed indiscriminately! D: This make no sense!

[cuddlesquid]

By TOS rules they apparently are! Redshirts were complete cannon fodder, whereas in TNG a red shirt was In Motherfucking Charge And Not To Be Killed Thanks So Much. Kinda makes you wonder what the Starfleet Fashion Design Corps was thinking.

[mustloveroses]

Orite, Picard wore red and so did Riker. Maybe they figured out that red=dead.

[cuddlesquid]

Except for Scotty and Uhura who were just too fucking badass to get seriously threatened I guess. :D

[notexotic]

I so did that when TDK came out. I still have a mini-Joker action figure from a box of Cherrios sitting on my bookshelf. And despite the fact that I abhor everything that Burger King stands for, I seriously covet one of those Trek glasses.