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It is the engineers Uniform i think

Wasn't the engineers uniform red? (think of Scotty)

Yeah, It's an Enginners uniform (I'm sad i know) and the matter-antimatter fusion is what power the ships (yes i know its just a show)

Beam me up

oh god it gets worse!!! scotty's uniform was red, that was the original series, I'm wearing the one from the Next Generation which is Gold.

The definitive answer (thank you, google):

ORIGINAL SERIES:

* Yellow/Gold: Command
* Blue: Science/Medical
* Red: Engineering/Security/Fodder*

TNG:

* Red: Command/Helm
* Yellow/Gold: Support (Security/Technical/Engineering)
* Blue: Medical/Science
* Grey: Star Fleet Marine Top
* Cleavage: Psychiatric


*Just about every episode had at least one poor, expendable security guy in red who would always get wasted by some alien or other.

I'm going for the 'saddest' award!

Nope the award is def mine, I knew all that WITHOUT looking it up. I know a vast amount and I'm sure I shouldn't

Darth Psycrow wrote:I know a vast amount and I'm sure I shouldn't

You're just the person then: why does a tachyon accelerate as its energy decreases? I mean, in TNG they were always going on about them, and I've often wondered.

why does a tachyon accelerate as its energy decreases

Sorry to butt in as I know the question was really addressed to Darth... It's a consequence of Einsteins theory of Special Relativity. Broadly speaking, a tachyon is a theoretical superluminal (ie. faster than light) particle with a negative squared mass which, according to Special Relativity, will result in it's energy increasing as it's velocity decreases. It can, of course, never decelerate below the speed of light as this would require it to have infinite energy (just like a tardyon can never accelerate UP to the speed of light).

Even as a science graduate (Biochemistry) I find it hard to follow but there's quite a nice laypersons explanation in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon

I'm not sure if tachyons have any practical applications in magic but they're damned useful for detecting Romulan cloaking devices!

I did some Biochemistry as part of my degree and i can't follow that either

Well I'm good with Star Trek Physics but not I'm no Einstein. Do you not just learn a lot of long funny really hard to say words in Biochemestry, like Polytetremetrachlorofloride

Oh yes! BIG words

Well I'm good with Star Trek Physics

How does the 'Heisenberg compensator' in the transporters work then?

I'm not certain

This thread is not logical Captain

Yorkshire Pudding wrote:
How does the 'Heisenberg compensator' in the transporters work then?

They work just fine, thank you.
In quantum physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that one cannot know both the position of a subatomic particle and its momentum to arbitrary precision. The more you know about one, the less you can know about the other.

This becomes relevant in the transporter system. When one considers that to know where everything is coming from and going to, one pretty much has to know near-exactly where everything is. By Star Trek's 24th century, that is no longer a problem, since the Heisenberg compensators are used to keep everything in the matter stream exactly where it should be.

Note, that this does not mean that the Heisenberg compensators tell you the vital statistics of a particle; they could very well just compensate for not knowing them and keep the system working just fine.
(courtasy of Wiki (I didn't have time to look properly))

Oh, and I was a Lieutenant, not Captain