More of a Space: 1999 fan myself but I would watch everything Gerry Anderson!
Spoilers Star Trek:Discovery Uniforms Sneak Peak
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Yay, look at me! I made a prediction and it turned out to be true. I guess all you nay-sayers who kept saying that the uniforms would be like in The Cage now have to eat humble pie.
Remember that time the warp core was shut down so they could do all the laundry? 
Futuristic clothing will have futuristic dry cleaning. Today's clothing manufacturers produce thousands of identical garments daily, all automated with very little human input. A starship 2 or 3 centuries in the future may not be able to magically produce a new uniform out of thin air if they don't have replicators, but it could certainly manufacture a new uniform from scratch (assuming appropriate supplies of uncut fabric and thread etc).
Futuristic clothing will have futuristic dry cleaning. Today's clothing manufacturers produce thousands of identical garments daily, all automated with very little human input. A starship 2 or 3 centuries in the future may not be able to magically produce a new uniform out of thin air if they don't have replicators, but it could certainly manufacture a new uniform from scratch (assuming appropriate supplies of uncut fabric and thread etc).
Looks like my gamble of wearing a Cage uniform this week at Star Trek: Mission will be one of the costliest mistakes of my Starfleet career.
Ehhhh, "something completely different" is pretty damn definitive, especially coming from Fuller who is a trekie. It's not really something that needs much interpretation
What would be interesting would be a transition episode in season four where the women go from Cage trousers, to miniskirts and Number One is "F### NO! Seriously, NO! F### OFF! I have hankies larger than this sexist goose invitation."
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Ok this is pretty ridiculous. Why set a show in a certain era if you have no intention of making it match that era aesthetically?
To Bryan Fuller,
If you want to make up your own uniform designs, and have your characters say all sorts of awesome swears, and use cool touchscreen tech; then feel free to make up your own era. If you want to play with the Pike-Kirk Era; then have the balls to make it look and feel like the Pike-Kirk era.
Sincerely,
A butt hurt fanboy
To Bryan Fuller,
If you want to make up your own uniform designs, and have your characters say all sorts of awesome swears, and use cool touchscreen tech; then feel free to make up your own era. If you want to play with the Pike-Kirk Era; then have the balls to make it look and feel like the Pike-Kirk era.
Sincerely,
A butt hurt fanboy
Yeah, I don't know. As I'm sure you know better than I do (Fleet Captain!) being too hardline with canon is futile. Even within each series there are contradictions and problems. WWIII? Forehead ridges? An ever-changing interpretation of the Prime Directive? All of these issues are well-documented and have been discussed ad nauseam.
The goal is not to create a religion, but to tell compelling stories. As fans, we need to give them the room to tell good stories. If we need to retcon in an explanation to make it all work logically, so be it.
And I say this as someone who would be happy to see them keep the Cage uniforms...
Because the aesthetic of that era is the 1960's.
By the end of DS9 everyone is either defeated or now holding hands. The alpha quadrant is a less interesting place drama-wist. They must want the wild west feel of the TOS era, and that era has all the cool stuff we like except for holodecks which were often criticized for overuse. Also the Klingon cold war era might be one of the driving reasons.
Most importantly, the transporter is still really dangerous but no one seems be concerned like in Archer's time.
Also in terms of design, the TOS era is first in line for a makeover since it's the oldest. Fuller will probably have enough visual references to the old to appease some of us, but in the end it will just be something we'll get used to over time.
A change in how they make clothes, would indicate a change in what clothes they wear.
McCoy was able to get an authentic Nazi Uniform from "somewhere" on the ship very quickly in Patterns of Force.
McCoy was able to get an authentic Nazi Uniform from "somewhere" on the ship very quickly in Patterns of Force.
Why not a Trek series 10 years before Picard's time? Leave us TOS geezers alone for a change and let those TNG fanboys sweat a bit!
They'll get to the TNG'ers eventually. One day we (well maybe not us old TOS geezers) will see a redesigned Enterprise D,etc.Why not a Trek series 10 years before Picard's time? Leave us TOS geezers alone for a change and let those TNG fanboys sweat a bit!
Hahahahahahaha.
This series is about the Klingons stealing the designs for the latest Federation battle cruiser and reverse engineering their own Klingon Battle Cruisers, just like they did a decade later with the Romulans. Oh, you thought it was the other way around? Naah.
Oh.
The Klingon ships on Enterprise looked identical to the Klingon ships from the TNG era.
This series is about the Klingons stealing the designs for the latest Federation battle cruiser and reverse engineering their own Klingon Battle Cruisers, just like they did a decade later with the Romulans. Oh, you thought it was the other way around? Naah.
Oh.
The Klingon ships on Enterprise looked identical to the Klingon ships from the TNG era.
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