If you look at the omni dials, scattered throughout the date, month, year and century dials are 4 little red marks.
I've always thought they had something to do with the automatic mode or something, (and maybe they do)....later I just thought they were meaningless red marks that the prop guys put in to make the omni look more complex....not so..
I just finished watching the pilot and after jeffrey floated baby mosses down stream and bog checks his omni, you see a green light....what you also see, on what I thought was 'on' the magnification lens is a red " V " ...drawn in the same style as the voyager " V " on the omni cover...
at first I thought, oooh, thats clever, you line up the date and year inside that V and thats how the date is selected....but the red V isn't on the magnification lens , its printed on the dials...and later as the dials get moved around, the red V is split into 4 seperate pieces....and thats what the red marks are on the omni dials, 4 seperate parts of a red voyager V.
I think the b.c. century marks numbers are filled in red too, but you barely notice that..
who knows what assembling the red V under the magnification date selector does...., maybe its the automatic mode, maybe it takes you to voyager headquarters....don't know why it was lined up during the mosses trip....probably unintentional...somebody was probably playing with the prop and lined them up for the hell of it...it should have read 1450 b.c. under there.
I always wondered about that as a kid...glad I figured it out. Oh, I also noticed for the first time something on the omni cover...the V in the center is obvious, and so are the words "Time waits for no man" along the lower rim, but there are markings along the upper rim as well....there are 3 infinity symbols, or possibly a continuous chain of them along the upper rim...looks like a bunch of sideways 8's...I'll try to remember to include them if I ever make one.
