>My other hate regarding KDF side is the lighting options for their
>ships. Red is not a nice colour to work under all the time dammit.

Maybe they see a slightly different color spectrum than we do, and that actually looks good to them. Not that that helps the human player any.

In fact, I just remembered one of the antediluvian TOS novels (as in, from when TOS was all there was) postulating just such a thing. In that one, Klingons actually can't see red (red light sources are invisible; red-colored objects look black), but they can see a couple of steps further into what we would think of as the near ultraviolet. (It's a plot point in that book - humans don't know that, so a Klingon character nearly gets shot by Enterprise security for wandering into the engineering area because he couldn't see that the red door had RESTRICTED AREA NO UNAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL on it in huge black letters. It just looked like yet another black door to him. Much confusion ensued until Dr. McCoy ran some tests. :)

Anyway, maybe Klingon ships are actually really brightly lit, but since we don't pick up the part that's just beyond violet it looks all reddish and muddy to us. :)

(Me, I wonder why my ship is full of fog. Something has to be wrong with the environmental controls, wouldn't you say? I'd have the engineering officer shot, except I was the engineering officer until the other day.)

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