Colour of the Deflectors...

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2002-12-26 05:37pm

Is there any particular reason for the colour of the deflectors on Starfleet straships? Or is just a coolness factor?

For example, the Enterprise:

E-nil - Red (although it looked more like a sat dish then anything else...)
E-Refit and A - Blue
E-B - Blue
E-C - Blue (?)
E-D - Blue
E-E - Red (orange-ish)

Would there be any reason for the change in colours?

Thougts?

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2002-12-26 05:49pm

Well sometimes it appears that the shield takes the color of whatever color the beam is that is hitting it. Other times its blue. Chalk it to inconsitency.

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2002-12-26 05:57pm

Sorry, but I meant the deflector dish, and not the shields.

But yeah, those also are strange stuff, artistically liberal, perhaps?

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2002-12-26 09:39pm

I wouldn't say the E-E has a red dish... more like bright yellow.

And I think it's a purely aesthetic choice made by the production people.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2002-12-26 10:22pm

I concur.