The sciences division is the corps of officers within Starfleet who specialize in both scientific and medical research and control functions on starbases, aboard starships, and at Starfleet Command. Members of the sciences division may specialize in sensors, research, theoretical and physical laboratory work, biological studies, and also as technicians, medics, and surgeons.
Officers who belong to the sciences division sometimes wear the division color of another department than that which they specialize in, if said science officer were to become a department head, they might wear the colors of command division, or if they have a dual specialty is an operations division department, an alternate color might be worn.
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 uniforms used from 2350s onward, blue had again become the sciences division color, and this has continued through several uniform styles. |
