Here’s a fun fact: “Doctor” was an academic degree. It was originally meant for theology, but expanded as the scope of academia expanded and natural philosophy became the sciences. We still call the degree “Doctor of Philosophy” as a result of that. Being a doctor of something meant that you were qualified to conduct research and teach at the university level. It eventually meant that you have made a contribution to your field - your dissertation - and the expectation was that you had and would continue to publish research papers in scientific journals.
The idea of a “medical doctor” was a new addition. MDs don’t do research, didn’t do a dissertation, and in general are not equipped to teach and advance the academic understanding of their field.
So I agree. Scientists should get the blue shirts, physicians and surgeons should just wear scrubs.
My favorite joke in Brooklyn Nine Nine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5QoYZuMILo
For folks who haven’t seen the show, the Captain is normally stoic to a near-fault. RIP André Braugher.
Doctor comes from latin (from the verb docere - to teach) and basically means teacher, or someone with enough knowledge in a field to teach. The term is still used as an academic title, but in different way in different countries. For example, while in english speaking countries ot is used for someone who completed their PhD (phylosophæ doctorate), so someone with enough knowledge to do research and teach to an academic level, in Italy the title “dottore” is given to any who got a degree, even a Bachelor’s, so a physician is a doctor in medicine because they graduated in medicine.
Be me
Sitting at my station in the shuttle bay waiting for someone to need a shuttle
Two people on the deck below me activate their replicators at the same time
My console explodes, tearing off an arm and burning half my uniform off, and skin too.
Stagger out the door looking for help.
See someone in the new medical uniforms, so glad they changed that so I don’t accidentally ask a botanist for help.
It’s a betazoid psychiatrist
Die and get fired out of the ship in a torpedo.
I’ve never been a big Trek fan, preferring to align with Star Wars in the false choice between them.
However this past weekend, I bought a Raspberry Pi box, and an 8tb hard drive, and the first thing I pirated was the entire first season of TNG.
I propose we call this “doing a Lemmy”
Idk if anyone has told you but the first season is by far the worst. I often recommend that people skip it honestly. So if you watched it and we’re still into it just get ready because it gets so much better
The entire first season??!!
I hope you enjoy it! Maybe by the time you finish TNG, you’ll have switched “sides”!
What are you all talking about? Clearly Medical is blue and science is green.
Are you all colorblind?
(/j)
See, Disco had it right. Doctors wore white, compared to the navy blue uniforms of all the other divisions, including Sciences. Presumably during the war someone decided that your medic being conspicuously covered in blood gave a bad impression, that was downgraded to nurses (SNW Chapel) and the doctors wore blue (although the slightly lighter shade than science divison). Then later, nurses got blue as well (TOS Chapel). Or was Chapel a full MD by then? Not sure about that.
“Sorry, I’m a doctor of English Literature.”
One has a medical degree, the other a Ph.D. Both are called doctor.
Just whatever you do, do NOT run towards someone wearing red-shirt, in fact run AWAY, run away FAST, run away NOW!:-P
Reno wasn’t even a scientist, and still managed to keep all those people alive on that asteroid. Running to a Starfleet officer is never a bad idea
What was the reason newer series switched to white uniforms for medical?
It’s a welcome change but also SNW is before TOS?
M’Benga still wears blue. Chapel wears white, but she’s also a civilian contractor in SNW and hasn’t joined Starfleet yet, so how her uniform color interacts with everyone else is unclear.
I guess it existed in the DIS era, starts to get phased out by the SNW era (we see Nurse Chapel wearing white but not Dr. M’Benga), and then is phased fully out by the time TOS rolls around.
At least until the LD uniforms come, and they partially reintroduce it in the form of white boots.
…unless you’re a horta.
