/strek/ - Star Trek ★

>>5757 (OP)

>for alien races

Alien factions, rather.

I also liked the designs from the cancelled cartoon, and the Odyssey Captain uniform. White makes a good colour for the captain.

>>5757 (OP)

I thought the gray ones were pretty classy, but the actors were probably hotter than hell under the lights.

However, nothing beats the miniskirts

I was never much of a fan of the uniforms in the show. None of them look like uniforms any military would want. The closest where the movie ones they began with in Wrath of Khan.

And why do the costume designers who make feddie uniforms hate pockets so much? It makes no sense for the kind of clothes you want your explorers on strange new worlds to wear. Nowhere to keep rations, equipment or samples you are collecting.

IMO, the trek uniforms are much like their weapons prior to the First Contact rifle, which look impractical and useless.

Personally I've always liked the look of the EA uniforms B5. At least they look like they could be from some kind of military.

And what is the point of giving different uniforms depending on your position on the ship? If it was different service branches like the marines on a ship vs its regular crew, it makes sense, but what is the practical advantage of having the OPS guy and your pilot dress in different uniforms? Isn't the entire point of a uniform to help get everyone wearing them to identify with eachother to promote teamwork and comradery? You can use different colored highlights and shit to denote service branch, but the dominant look of the uniform should still be the same regardless of branch.

Best uniform is the biomechanical cobra armor that points at your dick. Fuck starfleet.

Movie era uniforms.

>>5784

>says the Butthurt Bajoran

>>5781

>Not appreciating Cardassian bug armour.

>Best outfit in the shows runs so far.

It's like you don't even want protection, awesome beards, or a face g-string.

Wesley's uniform with the rainbow shoulderpads. So CY.

No. I was going to say "late-era DS9" but somebody went and posted the '60s style skirts. So the perfect loadout would include the skirts, modified to suit the contemporaneous style.

Pic unrelated.

Skirts huh

Thought I'd bump this thread rather than make a new one. I wish there was more stuff about uniforms other than Federation to be honest. That said TMP uniforms are pretty snazzy.

Enterprise era uniforms are the only practical looking uniforms.

>>11597

Wrath of Khan uniform for me. It looks classy as fuck. Enterprise and the grey shouldered ds9 uniforms are also decent tier.

>>11611

The design of the Enterprise uniform is interesting. It's clearly modeled after modern day NASA jumpsuits, but they've tried to mix with with some of the well known star trek uniform tropes, like the coloured shoulders and undershirt.

>>11611

Fun fact: Jumpsuits are comfy.

>>5788

>Cardassian bug armor

>>5790

Trivia: Tasha Yar can be briefly seen in one of the skirts at the end of Farpoint but she was behind the tactical console so you don't really notice. If i remember correctly, you never see her again wearing it. They seemed to only ever put average-looking women and emasculated men in it.

>>11597

>>11608

>4 WoK uniforms

>a production error

god knows they screw up a lot details in Star Trek. however, if i remember correctly the original story from the production was actually that it wasn't a mistake… they actually couldn't find all the various little pieces that went in to make those uniforms (despite in the 80's and 90's literally having a person inside a warehouse whose job it was to organize, catalog, and secure Star Trek stuff). I think it's a bullshit excuse, personally, since the TOS films were still in some stage of production at that point. I think it was more a matter of someone relatively low on the ladder in TNG production making a unilateral decision to portray that era's uniforms a certain way (to attempt to bridge the gap between the TOS film and early TNG eras) and it didn't go over well and looked sloppy so they back-tracked and made up a story. Or, they really did fuck-up badly and failed to get the pieces for the shoot and just went with it and then tried to cover their asses with various excuses.

Instances of them actually not being able to find the pieces or just not giving a shit can be seen in shit like those DirectTV commercials where Shatner shows up as Kirk and his uniform is all fucked-up.

The jacket, shirt, or vest over color-coded turtleneck with belt, black slacks, and bloused boots is pretty much the true Star Trek uniform - or truniform - if we're having an honest discussion. You see it in some form from The Cage through the TOS films. Everything else is deviant and different for the sake of being different… with the plethora of "jumpsuits" being the most oft-repeated folly. Enterprise-era jumpsuits are probably excusable and obviously for technicians and grunts it makes sense. Engineers wearing them while in Engineering makes sense. But everyone else? No way. Dress like you mean it, you silly fucks.

Everything in TNG onward should be revised to fit truniformity. I look forward to a bright future where mankind has progressed to the point where - not only can TNG and DS9 get a widescreen ultra resolution remastering - but all the characters uniforms can be updated with CGI to reflect the obvious mistake in making them gay in the first place.

Did any other autist notice that in TMP, Spock is wearing something under his 70's leisure wear uniform shirt that no one else wears? It almost looks like - dare i suggest - a turtleneck. Not quite… but almost. I believe this is an instance of the timeline trying to correct itself. The mellow 70's TMP uniforms can mostly be brought into truniformity with little alteration and Spock's undershirt is an example of this.

My biggest peeve by far with the Trek uniforms is the color choices - with department colors changing arbitrarily for dumb tv reasons. Organizations - particular military and para-military ones - are steeped in tradition while at the same time being attentive to functionality and practicality. So, while the overall design of the uniform may change over the years - colors and symbols are likely not to, particularly after the first few decades once the institution's culture is established.

Also, that chart is incorrect in that it shows the beloved Wrath-of-Khan 80's TOS movie uniform (2270s - 2320s) without bloused boots. Violation!

Generally like the section 31 outfit just because it does exactly what the designer intended, to not make it imposing but disconcerting. The similarities to surgeon's gear despite the black leather also works in two ways, A being the reminder that like surgery section 31's work is incredibly discrete and precise, and B the fact that Bashir has the most interaction with them. The outfit makes it a doctor to doctor conversation, and treats the temptation to join them as "moving into a new practice", as it were.

>>11864

>The king is the WoK-UCon uniforms

Agreed. However, I'm re-watching ST6 and I'm noticing some fuckery that I never noticed before. Velaris' jacket and undershirt are two different (hideously contrasting) colors when they should be one. It's not like she's a cadet or some kind of provisional officer. She's a full Lieutenant and a bridge officer. Also, I never noticed that the underside of many of the jackets are beige when they should be whatever the department color is - the secondary color. The beige looks like shit, imho. You notice this when they unfasten the shoulder clasp and go into casual mode.

Also, what's up with the weird white stripe where Saavik's service pips and bars are supposed to go? Is this supposed to denote 0-years service? What's wrong with just having none?

>>largely the same uniform between 2275-2355 with alterations here and there

>>post 2355 the uniform changes every 15 minutes

>Pretty disgusting to be honest, they should find something nice and settle down.

it's to the point where you have to conclude that to late 24th century Starfleet, fashion is important. It's absurd. The current trash receptacle conflagration that is the Star Trek gaming scene (particularly STO) have only made things worse… basically confirming the worst of plebbit startrek tendencies.

>>11867

>The Enterprise era uniforms are supposed to be like the space shuttle.

yep. i'm cool with those uniforms, despite not being particularly interested in the series. their excuse for a "dress uniform" looked retarded, though. Then again, when has Star Trek ever done a dress uniform right?

>>11597

The STO uniform in this chart should be put down as the 2386-2409 uniform, 2410 uses a new Odyssey uniform, named after the ship class of the Enterprise F.

>>11868

so, i did more research and apparently there was a lot of retardation with the undershirts throughout the films. Logically, the color should reflect the officer's division/department/role. However, the production designers seemed to want to use them to also denote "trainees and cadets". That's what the flame red color means.

This is visually quite stupid, since it fucks with the purpose of secondary colors in those uniforms. It makes more sense to add or subtract some element from the uniform to denote "noob"… such as removing the ribbed collar. They could have also changed some bit of coloring like going from brass to black or nickel pins and insignia (best option imho). With Velaris' uniform, the two colors is just the production designers acknowledging the fuckup of not being able to determine a trainees department.

memory alpha mentions another egregious error in that Scotty wears a white undershirt at times probably for no other reason that some faggot decided it looked good. It's argued that he should be entitled to wear this because he's qualified as a watch officer or whatever (he is in command at times in TOS). Many engineers are not, since they're just autismals who worry about the engines, regardless if their nominal rank is Lt. or Captain.

I would argue that you're assigned a division and that's the colors you wear. None of this mixing and matching shit. White is probably for "generalists" only… in this case meaning most Admirals, Commodores, Captains, and some Commanders or even Lt. Commanders if they are responsible for the operation of a vessel or installation - in other words, if they have a command and that command oversees more than one division operating beneath it. Whether this applies to adjutants and aides is another question. They probably should have a separate color, shared with yeomen.

The more i look at the beige underside of the jacket for non-command officers, the more i'm on the fence about it. It doesn't look that bad, but it does add more complexity to a uniform that's already pretty visually complicated. It should probably just be department color.

Also, those flag officer wearing their ribbons like that looked sloppy as fuck. They could have done better than that, like an armband on the right sleeve opposite the band on the left that has the service pips an bars.

Why was Gene Roddenberry obsessed with sweaters?

cardassian uniforms were the sexiest thing since gul dukats swimsuit magazine

federation can only dream of having something with such curves

>>16230

>when the Fed bullies won't stop calling you "spoonhead"

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>>11864

>>11868

>>11875

These truly were the best uniforms.

Thoughts on The Orville uniforms?

>>17854

Why are they all wearing pants?

>>11797

>The jacket, shirt, or vest over color-coded turtleneck with belt, black slacks, and bloused boots is pretty much the true Star Trek uniform - or truniform

Even back when I played STO I thought the film uniforms would look better with a belt.

>>17869

that's pretty much the Yesterday's Enterprise crewman gear. However, not integrating it into the mesh of the uniform makes it look more like a bandolier in that model, but yeah… all those uniforms looked 100% better with belts. The Yesterday's Enterprise variant improves the TNG uniform and I think the Admiral's uniform from the TNG movie / late DS9 uniforms had a belt. They all should have been belted.

>>17869

That guy looks pretty neat. What is he, a Cardassian hybrid?

Flight suit looked cool.

>>17908

looks like a dress uniform, or a medical uniform, or pic related

TOS is always going to be at the top of my list. It's simple and elegant. I don't like the majority of TMP's uniforms, but most of those which incorporated white as a main color looked good. In particular, Kirk's gray-bodied admiral's uniform is one of my all-time favorites. I've never been a big fan of the WoK uniform style. I think it's just a bit too on-the-nose with the retro-futuristic naval aesthetic. It would work fine as the basis for a dress uniform, but I've always felt like it looks too overblown for a regular duty uniform.

>>18029

TMP uniforms are so bland and muted. The remind me of the USS Kelvin uniforms, which I wasn't too fond of either.

On the subject of the Kelvin timelines, why do a lot of their uniforms look like they belong in Starship Troopers more than Star Trek? Was the Star Trek reboot also a sneaky way for them to do proof-of-concept for the Starship Troopers reboot?

>>18057

>Was the Star Trek reboot also a sneaky way for them to do proof-of-concept for the Starship Troopers reboot?

Simultaneously, I mean.

>>18060

>Those are just the dress uniforms

These are just Starfleet dress uniforms though. The Kelvin timeline is completely alien to traditional Starfleet dress uniforms. They don't fit at all.

>>18066

Just commenting on the subject since TMP uniforms were brought up.

What do you fags think of latex uniforms?

>>18631

OH GOD WHY DID I SEARCH FOR THIS?

>>18647

It's more of a tunic than a miniskirt.

Imagine Swolecard wearing this, wrestling aliens and throwing them through bulkheads while wearing Terran Empire approved battlesandals.

>>18648

I could imagine the Swole Empire being dressed like Romans.