| rdfs:comment | - The sciences division was the corps of officers and crewpeople within Starfleet who specialized in scientific or medical research and control functions aboard starships, on starbases and at Starfleet Command. Members of the sciences division may of specialized in any number of areas including: sensors, research, theoretical and laboratory work, biological studies or trained as technicians, medics and surgeons. In the mid-23rd century, navigation also fell under the jurisdiction of the sciences division aboard Federation starships. (TOS - My Brother's Keeper novel: Constitution)
- The sciences division was a division of Starfleet made up of members who performed various scientific duties aboard their starbases or starships, such as medicine or counseling. This term often referred to the same reality among other races, although counseling and healthcare usually didn't fall into the jurisdiction of the sciences division in the Tal Prai'ex and the Lyran Starfleet. (RIS Bouteina, Star Trek: The Stoneship Files)
- Officers who belonged to the sciences division sometimes wore the division color of a department other than that in which they specialized. (TOS: "Balance of Terror" , "The Conscience of the King" ) For example, if a science officer became a department head, they might have worn the colors of command division, or if they had a dual speciality in an operations division department, an alternate color might have been worn. (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" , "Mudd's Women" , "Charlie X" , "The Naked Time" )
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| abstract | - The sciences division was the corps of officers and crewpeople within Starfleet who specialized in scientific or medical research and control functions aboard starships, on starbases and at Starfleet Command. Members of the sciences division may of specialized in any number of areas including: sensors, research, theoretical and laboratory work, biological studies or trained as technicians, medics and surgeons. In the mid-23rd century, navigation also fell under the jurisdiction of the sciences division aboard Federation starships. (TOS - My Brother's Keeper novel: Constitution)
- The sciences division was a division of Starfleet made up of members who performed various scientific duties aboard their starbases or starships, such as medicine or counseling. This term often referred to the same reality among other races, although counseling and healthcare usually didn't fall into the jurisdiction of the sciences division in the Tal Prai'ex and the Lyran Starfleet. (RIS Bouteina, Star Trek: The Stoneship Files)
- Officers who belonged to the sciences division sometimes wore the division color of a department other than that in which they specialized. (TOS: "Balance of Terror" , "The Conscience of the King" ) For example, if a science officer became a department head, they might have worn the colors of command division, or if they had a dual speciality in an operations division department, an alternate color might have been worn. (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" , "Mudd's Women" , "Charlie X" , "The Naked Time" ) Beginning with the Earth Starfleet of the 2140s and 2150s, line officers and noncoms of science division wore blue division stripes on their uniforms. This use of blue continued through several uniform styles until 2260s. On starships, such as the USS Enterprise, science division crewmembers had a specialty insignia in their insignia patch, a circle with two longitudinal lines dividing it. By the 2270s, new uniforms showed different division colors, with the sciences division signified by two differing colors. Science research and technical staff wore orange behind their Starfleet badge, on uniform bands, accessories, and epaulets. Medical crew wore green badge backings and accessories. The sciences division was changed again with the 2280s uniforms, with green continuing to represent medical personnel, but science and technical staff now wore gray colors (which was a style shared by services personnel of operations division). The insignia used gave the officer the option of wearing command division white uniform insignia, with another department color like sciences' banded across, or the opposite, with department color insignia (green or grey, in this case) with command white banded across. On the uniforms used from 2350s onward, blue had again become the sciences division color. The second variant of the 2371 uniform, while still referred to as blue, was actually a shade of green, jungle green. The color was later be applied to the 2373 uniforms as well.
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