Standard Equipment
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| Standard Starfleet Equipment | |
| INFORMATION | |
| Year Commissioned: |
2240-2252 |
| Affiliation: |
United Federation of Planets |
| Status: |
Active |
| END OF BRIEFING | |
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At a Glance
Throughout most of the 2250s, Starfleet's equipment has a strong resemblance to the later 2260s era. Rank insignia are placed on a department-specific badge as "commbadges" are not yet available. However, these badges do contain locator-transponders and can relay some information back to the ship's sensors. To communicate, personnel carry a flip-style communicator. Tricorders and datapads are also frequently carried and used.
Uniforms
Starfleet Command issues a series of garments to meet the needs of its personnel. Starfleet's uniforms come in a number of variations to suit the wearer with an appearance that varies by their division within Starfleet.
In 2230, Starfleet Command adopted a new uniform that moved away from the primary red-blue-yellow top with a black bottom uniform design that had dominated the last twenty years. The design they chose was a radical departure that harkened back to the functionality of the Federation's early eras. With only minor variations in 2240 and again in 2250, the uniform has largely been unchanged. The Constitution-class Explorers began to don a new uniform similar to the pre-2230s era but those changes have not been implemented in the wider fleet.
Skant Variation Uniform
Two-Piece Uniform
The standard Starfleet uniform is a two-piece, long-sleeved garment with a close-fitted, tailored contour. Underneath the jacket, personnel usually don a sleeveless, short sleeve or long-sleeved dark blue or gray undergarment.
Skants are most popular among the Yeomanry and see little use in the more operational or utilitarian parts of the ship. These uniform variants, which are unisex and can be worn by all genders, have a dress or pleated kilt-like bottom. Skants can be a one-piece (in which the skant is dark blue like the uniform) or two-piece (in which the skant portion is black). The skant variation ends a few centimeters above the knee. It can be worn with black leggings and standard boots, or without leggings.
One-Piece Jumpsuit
Those with a utilitarian approach or who have a vocational necessity will find there is a one-piece jumpsuit version of the standard uniform. It is especially popular with engineers and operations personnel.
Skant Variant
Skants are most popular among the Yeomanry and see little use in the more operational or utilitarian parts of the ship. These uniform variants, which are unisex and can be worn by all genders, have a dress or pleated kilt-like bottom. Skants can be a one-piece (in which the skant is dark blue like the uniform) or two-piece (in which the skant portion is black). The skant variation ends a few centimeters above the knee. It can be worn with black leggings and standard boots, or without leggings.
Officer's Standard Dress
The officer's uniform is a dark blue garment with five vertical lines on each shoulder. Patterned field colors descend from the sides under the arm. It has an off-side lapel, concealing the jacket's zipper and ribbed blue shouldering.
Commanding Officer Dress
Medical Officer's Dress
By 2230, Starfleet bowed to pressure by the Medical Division to differentiate its officers from Science personnel. Their reasons were largely centered around safety- doctors, nurses, and paramedics were hard to locate in crisis situations and had unacceptable casualty rates when engaged in the rare act of combat. Starfleet decided to design a garment that gave medical personnel an easily identifiable appearance, hoping it would 1) tell an opponent that these are noncombat humanitarians; 2) assist refugees and evacuees to locate trained medical personnel in a crisis situation. The only major complaint about the uniforms from the Medical Division is that the garments are difficult to keep clean.
Enlisted Standard Dress
Civilian Contractor's Dress
Civilians are a rare breed on mid-23rd century vessels. Many wear their own attire. When the ship's fabricators are deployed for longterm civilian contractor dress, the standard output is a slate blue, one-piece jumpsuit with offset lapel collar. The jumpsuit is somewhat commonly worn (with a rank insignia badge) by engineering personnel when undertaking work that needs a very robust garment. The civilian variant does not have a rank badge.
Prisoner's Fatigues
Brig detainees and prisoners who have been processed by Security personnel are issued a yellow one-piece jumpsuit similar to the civilian jumpsuit (its pockets are sealed/removed). The color choice is one to help differentiate them from the crew and to alert ship's personnel that, should this person be seen away from Security escort, they are to call Security immediately- they are not to intervene themselves.