It was all about it evolving into the ST that we know today. Not that shit show. Shit Trash Disaster.

@@jameswatsonatheistgamer that doesn't matter. Earth has an alert system now, and starfleet had been around for what - 30 years by that point? They should have an alert system already.

@@Eshanas Well they didn't

Not necessarily...in the real Navy, which much of the customs in ST are based upon, we used General Quarters, not red alert or battle stations. Believe me, there’s plenty of hazards that sailing through a medium that we’ve barely explored or know that much about presents, especially with a nuclear reactor fueling your vessel.

except the notorious brown alert

Imagine him saying oooohh shiiittt on a repeating tape, which is being broadcasted all over the ship

I would call that a "Brown Alert."

I need this in star trek Picard or I'm gonna lose it

@@stephenturner4545 no that's a lifeless moon.

Seeing it in theatres was priceless

I believe intruders are covered by blue alert. It was on Voyager, anyway.

Considering that it's included in the other alerts - often as the trigger - it couldn't be considered a separate alert status.

I think intruder alert automatically triggered a red alert, if I remember correctly. An impending invading force seems like something to be pretty worried about and should have people ready/ at battle stations

@@illumi9044 nice.

I'm not sure if I remember correctly, but I think it was a red alert only on the bridge but no sirens howling on the whole ship. The intruders should not know they were detected.

most under rated comment here

Omg yes! I recently watched that

"Forget Red, let's go all the way up to Brown Alert!" "But, Sir, there's no such thing." "You wont be saying that in a minute! And don't say I didn't alert you!"

looks like someone drank too much prune juice again and the laxative effects are starting to kick in

Damm you just beat me to it. by 4 years

What about the zoo and all the shops in the mall

And the three ring circus. Or was that just Spaceball One?

@@beepthemeep12 Well all the zoo animals have to report to battle stations at regular red alert, I guess people could still go for the food court

@@alakani Regular red alert - take all the zoo animals and secure them behind doors and force fields. Double red alert - docile animals as above, any bears, tigers, wolves etc. onboard chain them to strategic locations boarders were likely to teleport into, or send them to the transporter room so they could be beamed onboard the enemy ship. Triple red alert - no time for any of that, vent the animals to space :(

Where does the bearded lady go during red alert?

You remember correctly

@Voltaic Fire Maybe incase they're naked... Bit of a joke but seriously what if they're in the shower

@@Damo2690 That would have been interesting, if it involves Troi, or Lefler.

The Star Trek TNG technical manual gives a very detailed description of all the alert status' They are far more involved that mentioned here and the condition blue was planetary landing ONLY. Granet blue lighting is shown on the 1701-A when docking at the starbase but this was NOT blue alert, it was a signal of automated control on part of the starbase control station.

What about children in class and such?

It makes sense... but wouldn't a simple announcement of, "secure ship for low- power operation" reduce crew confusion and simplify training rather than thirty different color- coded alert status'? I suppose it all could be in an OPS manual and checklist I suppose.

@@jonskowitz by that logic, you could say "EVERYONE GRAB A GUN THE KLINGONS ARE HERE" instead of simply "red alert". Codes simplify things, and knowing those codes is just one of many things that should be expected of a Starfleet officer. Besides, there are only like five or six codes, and they're all fairly obvious. Especially on a starship, where they're all getting tossed around at least twice a month. Even if you don't know a code, nobody works alone and at least one other person in your department is hustling when that alert comes out. Ask him.

@@swishfish8858 on the other hand, an attack is an imminent threat that requires as few words as possible to get the point across, hence a red alert, while low power conditions are not necessarily an imminent threat as it's typically for power conservation in long... Voyages. My guess is it's only called Grey light alert because that's what the reduced lighting looks like so they made it an alert.

I would contend that the various alerts don't so much indicate a series of actions to undertake, but a change in general ship operations that will continue for an indignities period of time. Therefore, the change in operations brought about by the Grey Alert low power operations (likely limited replicator use, rationed sonic showers, a change in the dilithium intermix, deactivated holodecks etc.) are better contained in the shorthand "Grey Alert" notification rather than a senior officer getting on the shipwide comms and notifying everyone of the specific changes.

Also white for "Omega Protocol"

As a writer myself, I am deeply offended that you think that would even be possible.

I would imagine it would imply the threat has gone from being a potential battle, to being onboard and external threats.

Slap the writers and I'll put you on *Double secret probation* unless this isn't your first offense in which case I'll give you the "Spock burial" and jettison you out of a torpedo tube 😆😃😄

I like Dr whos *Ultimate code red* for omg Earth is fucked, try to survive rather than suiciding our military

As far as I know, the only time it was used was when Kirk found a phaser that had been set to overload and explode in his quarters.

I feel like deoxygenation of a compartment like the bridge should warent a Red Alert at least.

@@novaiscool1 matches the colour the crew turned

that's not a blue alert, that was a medical emergency not an alert at all

This is why replicators really took off, lol. ^ It wasn't just the Earl Gray tea on demand.

Red Dwarf is a fantastic show. I wish more people knew about it.

@@KlingonCaptain A Brit scifi classic! Loved its original run!

entropy11 lol. Can’t stop laughing

@@teodorachim4757 TRY a BENZO for that!

Nuts, you beat me to it. :-)

PURPLE ALERT! PURPLE ALERT!

@@VulpisFoxfire :D it had to be done, lol

Wasn't it supposed to be Magenta though... ?

Too lazy captain, ma legz begone

adam Ka do you play STO?

@@timer3770 I do :)

Lynx :D what’s your favorite faction

@@timer3770 Feds, by far.

Lynx :D same, but do you think all the noobs pick dominion

I forgot about that but that’s not really a ship wide alert is it?

There is no Status Omega. As Omega does not exist. Remember??? *wink wink. nudge nudge. points to security officers not very pleased with a civil bring up classified information*

@@Qardo Tuvok doesn't display emotions, but you can tell inside he's frowning.

Was more of a directive....fuck me I never thought I was a trekkie but I just heard myself😂

I think the ship went to red alert and dealt with the situation at the time or it was secretly dealt with later if it was less urgent.

4Dmike except "Reed Alert" was more of a joke, and was just Reed musing about what such an alert would be called

When did we see the double red alert?

@@JestaKilla The Original Series, a phaser was set to overload and they needed to find it before it destroyed the section. Captain Kirk once declared a double red alert during off-hours, when Spock detected the distinctive sound of a phaser on overload hidden in Kirk's quarters. Realizing that there were only a few seconds available to evacuate that section of the ship, Kirk ordered a double red alert. TOS1x12 "The Conscience of the King"

all i know is my gut says maybe

Tell my wife “hello”!

Pogo Alert ?

I think Q might have installed that one.

their*

lol Meet the Spartans merges with star trek!

Chris Ferguson Indeed, no one is supposed to talk about that, under the penalty of treason

VZ_ 342 lol!

Of course "alert alert" was only used in the 22nd-century as it has roots in the 21st-century practice of "meeting about a meeting."

I thought that was where the crew if a duty section alerted the bridge that they had successfully reached the station and were ready to be alert!

Black is from discovery, used practically every other episode. Blue is only used a handful of times in all the series combined.

RedShirt047 I’m only hypothesizing, but the grey alert could have been a recently developed alert in the same way red and yellow alerts grew from the old tactical alert. It’s also possible that grey alert was used as a planned power conservation mode while blue represented a sudden and unexpected catastrophic loss of system functionality. Like in Brothers (TNG) when the bridge life support suddenly failed and triggered a blue alert. It may be subtle and I may be grasping at straws, but that’s how I always saw the difference.

The thing that bugs me is Voyager is still repeatedly referred to as having "impulse reactors", which seem to be fusion too. The name might imply that they're solely for the impulse engines, but right back to TOS they talk about running only on impulse reactors and not the warp reactor. Voyager also can reroute power from life support to the impulse engines, so it seems to me that they should have been able to run most things from these fusion reactors; even if that required rationing of certain systems (which is completely consistent with what they do anyway). DS9 has replicators from only fusion. If you think of it as a power-hungry transporter-powered 3D printer rather than turning the energy directly into matter, then having fusion-powered replicators seems pretty feasible. But of course, much as with whether or not the transporter converts you into energy, sends a template for your body, or sends a 1-atom wide beam of the exact atoms you were already made of.. it seems to depend on the episode how replicators are said to work. The TNG and DS9 tech manuals say they simply connect to tanks of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen, and that's why they still need to asteroid-mine metals and other rare minerals. But gold is also described as worthless and replicable. But anyway, Voyager constantly runs out of dilithium and antideuterium, and repeatedly say that the warp core powers everything. I think it makes sense to tap some power off of the warp core when you're idling and you don't want to shut it down (because restarting it takes forever), or excess heat from the warp engine reaction anyway (like how cabin heating is "free" in an internal combustion vehicle), but why were they still running absolutely everything off of the warp core when in planetary orbit on a survey or so forth, instead of using the impulse reactors for most of it? Shouldn't the impulse/fusion reactors be powering most of the non-propulsion slash non-critical systems anyway, even if power CAN come from the warp core? And don't even get me started on how the series couldn't decide whether or not the holodecks had their own generators. I suppose it could make sense if Voyager is just too small to have fusion generators too.. but it's not actually THAT small. It's bigger than the Constitution-class in internal volume, and that had the capability to run on impulse/fusion generators as I just said. I suppose I should just repeat the MST3K mantra to myself.. but we Trekkies do enjoy theorising on fictional technology and trying to make it all fit together, don't we?

Continue adding until at some point you have to refer to the RGB specific numbers for each color.

A similar one was used in BSG. Instead of colors, they were numbered. Whenever the ship was preparing for battle, the call went out to "set Condition One throughout the ship", letting the crew know what level of readiness to prepare for.

Real Starfleet Officers do not play Dabo. They play Poker.......which I am deeply disappointed that it is not in STO but I guess is it is a gambling card game. It may be frowned on in a lot of states and countries. Sigh...

@@Qardo Well, you don't have to gamble to play poker. When they played poker in TNG, they were only "gambling" with fake currency just to give the game some objectivity.

@@JohnnyShagbot Well, the issue is that there are some states and countries that are so Anti-Gambling. Even if you are using fake currency. They will flip. Even though I just do not have the heart to tell them that Life is the biggest gamble we all are forced to play. After all. You can place your chips done one night without knowing it and never wake up the next day. Bankrupt. Bust. Booted from the Casino of Humanity. Yet that is a whole other subject I ended up rambling about. I apologize for wasting your time.

I figured it was a matter of basic pay for leisure activities, keeping the morale high is fairly important to any standing force military or not.

Because its cool

Because it was in Riker's job describtion. Tbh I wondered about that too. If just saying "Red Alert" is supposed to be a time saver, why instruct your crew to do things the computer should have done automatically already?

I thing it was mostly a writer thing to look/sound cool since as mentioned, the computer automatically does that. And even if the computer didn’t whoever was manning tactical should have been checking and doing that as just SOP for that alert condition. After all, the whole point is people hear that condition and they already know what to do.

Maximum shields! (they should already be maxed)

Reminds of the Stargate episode where Daniels tells the tactical officer “You should probably prepare to fire.” The guys looks and him and tells him that all he has to do is push this button right there. Not much to prepare for.

a.k.a. NNNNEEEERRRRDDDD

It's described as "Grey Mode" in that episode, so maybe it's something different? Like an constant operation mode, whereas Alerts aren't meant to be permanent? Like submarines running in silent mode, perhaps.

Ludicrous speed!

i can garantee you a STD is always a red alert

I mean it does make sense logistically. Blue Alert fits for a standard function of the class, but not one that may be regularly used, like accessing the command line of your computer. The process is understood and expected, but the crew might not be readily familiar with the procedure. (Voyager probably had crew report to unique stations to deploy landing gear and shut down correctional thrusters for example). Black Alert by contrast, is less "The ship is doing something non-standard but expected" and more "Science is happening, don't stop anything but watch out". The Crossfield class are science vessels after all, and while Discovery's only major project was the displacement activated spore hub drive, presumably other experiments like reproducing the subspace improbability field seen in Strange New Worlds "Subspace Rhapsody" or feeding tachyons to the warp core to make a time loop would ALSO qualify to put a Crossfield under Black Alert. The two alerts have overlapping use cases, but are not the same.

yea but the normal red Alert does require all hands to their stations including battlestation as fast as possible so to double that makes no sense since the crew can't be faster just cause the command changes ^^ except for scotty of coarse he works faster the lesser time he has but that is an exception.

jedigecko06 Remember the Cant!

Had the _opportunity_ but decided to do a strange alternate timeline thing and barely touched on the things of interest.

Travis Smith ENT not DIS

@@-M0LE So, the whole Xindi thing that did not happen in the pre-Ent lore is the main timeline? Fallout from the temporal cold war causing the launch of NX-01 prior to when it was supposed to and historically did?

I agree, it got really good in the 3rd and 4th seasons.

Unexpected red alerts should have had people out of uniform at stations more often.

@Manek Iridius i think you are right.

During red alert on a Galaxy class vessel, all civilians report to their homes, along with their children, unless they are in classes which also act as emergency shelters and are equipped with nearby life boats. Standard procedure WAS for the saucer and all of those civilian decks to separate from the battle bridge, but limitations in studio budgets required further enhancements of the saucer section, making it possible for it to safely deal with direct battle.

The Galaxy class starship was designed in an era of peace, where nobody expected dangerous battles to occur, especially to a huge ship like that. Who would actually fire on such a target?

@@anlumo1 Although officially it was constructed for exploration, the Galaxy class was one of the most heavily armed ships in the fleet. 12/14 phaser arrays, 2 torpedo launchers (250 photon), antimatter mines memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Galaxy_class

In all fairness if Black Alert turned on black lights the crew would see their teeth glowing, all of the bridge controls would have odd hues, some people would suffer near-instant headaches, some would experience temporary conjunctivitis and photokeratitis, eye watering, blurred vision... i know in the past video game arcades were known for turning off most of the lights except for the games, and then turning on black lights, which caused their psychedelic rainbow-on-black rugs to glow, but it turns out that was really unhealthy.

Not to mention all the fluids

Because there's no Quarterdeck on a Starship

@@Spartacus547 From my understanding, the Quarterdeck was the equivalent of a starship's bridge, but the command "General Quarters" has nothing to do with the Quarterdeck. It just means that all hands should make their way to Battle Stations. Also there is no Quarterdeck on a submarine but the command is still used.

General Quarters is a crew command. Red Alert invokes automated systems and GQ is implied in it's implementation. GQ is also implied in Yellow alert.