Operations division

The operations division was the corps of officers and crewmen within Starfleet who specialized primarily in the positions of Security, Engineering, and Ops. (; ; ) At times, other departments such as communications, helm, and navigation were assigned to the operations division.
== Duties ==
Members of the operations division may specialize in service functions on starbases, aboard starships, and at Starfleet Command as staff officers. 
Operations division personnel also filled administrative posts as yeomen, personnel officers, and portmasters. By the 24th century, this division had its own established role on ships, such as operations officers (or chief of operations).
== Uniforms ==
The operations division, command division, and sciences division were usually denoted by Starfleet uniform insignia, most often color-coded.
In the United Earth's Starfleet of the 2140s and 2150s, line officers of ops division wore red division stripes on their uniforms.
The red color had been replaced by the uniforms of the 2250s and early 2260s, as beige (or gold) uniforms and work gear were worn by ops division personnel, except security, who wore blue.
Red was again the color of the ops division throughout the later 2260s, worn by line officers and flag officers of this division. () During this time, though, some operations officers continued to wear beige (or gold).
By the 2270s, new uniforms showed different division colors. The three divisions had been broken into many separate departments, and the operations division was signified by several colors. Engineering and maintenance staff wore Starfleet badges with red backing, along with red uniform bands and epaulets. Security and services crew wore gray badge backings and bands, and navigators wore yellow.
The uniform scheme was changed again with the 2280s uniforms. The color scheme was streamlined, and all departments within the operations division were assigned the same ochre color. Communications and navigation were transferred to the sciences division. Command-level officers such as department heads had the authority to wear either white slashes on their division color jacket trim, or white undershirts and jacket trim with department color slashes. Montgomery Scott occasionally wore a white undershirt after being promoted to Captain of Engineering, although never with his full uniform jacket.
For the uniforms used from 2350s onward, had become the operations division color, and this continued through several Starfleet uniform styles, including the most recent style, and even several styles observed in alternate futures. (, et al.)
===Gallery===
File:Malcolm Reed, 2151.jpg|Malcolm Reed of in operations red, 2151
File:Pitts.jpg|Pitts of the in operations gold, 2233
File:Britch Weeton.jpg|Britch Weeton of the in operations copper, 2256
File:Montgomery Scott (alternate reality) at transporter controls.jpg| of the alternate reality in operations red, 2258
File:Montgomery Scott, 2265.jpg|Montgomery Scott in operations beige, 2265
File:Kyle, 2267.jpg|Lieutenant Kyle in operations red, 2267
File:Ilia.jpg|Navigator Ilia wearing the yellow circle of Operations 
File:Natasha Yar, 2364.jpg|Natasha Yar wearing operations gold, 2364
File:Worf, 2366.jpg|Worf wearing operations gold, 2366
File:B'Elanna Torres, 2371.jpg|B'Elanna Torres wearing operations gold, 2371
File:Toddman.jpg|Vice Admiral Toddman wearing a rare operations admiral's uniform, 2371
File:Geordi La Forge, 2379.jpg|Geordi La Forge wearing operations gold, 2379
File:Shaxs.png|Shaxs wearing operations gold, 2380
File:Raffi in uniform, 2385.jpg|Raffi Musiker wearing operations gold, 2385
File:Gaines.jpg|In an alternate future, Lt. Gaines wears operations gold
File:Oh.jpg|Commodore Oh wearing operations gold, 2399
File:Geordi La Forge, 2401.png|Commodore Geordi La Forge wearing operations gold, 2401
File:Operations division uniform 29th century.jpg|A crew member of the timeship in operations brown, 29th century
==Operations division officers==
== Appendices==
===Background information===
Following the beige uniforms of the two pilots, red was regularly worn by the security, engineering, maintenance, yeomen, communications, and staff officers during . Communications Officer Uhura normally wore ops red (she wore command gold in a few early episodes) as did Chief Engineer Scott and Yeoman Rand.
For , costume designer Robert Fletcher dressed all officers in neutral colors, with departments identified by a colored circle set behind the Starfleet logo. Fletcher divided Operations into multiple sections, with some roles such as helm, navigation, and communications marked by the color yellow and engineers and maintenance workers identified by a red circle. For uniforms, Fletcher created a standard red uniform for all officers, with division colors marked in trim on the neck, shoulder, and sleeve. He again shuffled some departments around, moving navigation and communications to the Science department, while engineer Scotty and helmsman Sulu wore the burnt ochre of Operations.
The purpose of the colors was only obvious through inference, but in , red was established in dialogue as the "old" style ops color (and gold as the "new" ops color). The decision to switch the meaning of the colors between the TOS and uniform styles was made in pre-production of .
Most often, in the Federation Starfleet, all captains and admirals wore command division colors; however, there were exceptions which prove that this was not a requirement. In TOS, two commodores, and Stocker, wore red operations division uniforms and had an admiral named Toddman wearing operations division gold, despite every other Starfleet captain and admiral ever seen in this era wearing command colors.
=== Apocrypha ===
In the comic series Crew, engineering officers are depicted as wearing a red uniform, with a red collar, alongside the beige uniforms as depicted in "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before". In particular, these uniforms are depicted as only being worn in engineering, rather than elsewhere on the , suggesting that since the engineering section of the Enterprise was never depicted during this era of TOS, such uniforms could have actually existed side-by-side with the beige operations uniforms, thereby continuing the red division color established in .
In Star Trek Online, the operations division consists of mostly just engineering, as security was moved merged with the command division into the new tactical division in 2409.
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