Late 24th century uniform

[F. King Daniel]

The talk of uniforms in another thread has me wondering: Do our heroes in the 24th century 'present' (2386) still wear the uniform introduced in First Contact with the Generations commbadge? Or has it changed somewhere (I'm a little behind)?

 

[Shamrock Holmes]

The talk of uniforms in another thread has me wondering: Do our heroes in the 24th century 'present' (2386) still wear the uniform introduced in First Contact with the Generations commbadge? Or has it changed somewhere (I'm a little behind)?

The cover art seems to suggest that the FC-style uniforms are still in use, however I don't recall the issue ever being specifically mentioned in the novels.

 

[ryan123450]

At some point I would say it should be changed to one of the uniforms and combadges we've previously glimpsed in the future.

 

[starburst]

One possible future showed Captain La Forge wearing the combination of the First Contact uniform but with the All Good Things Comm Badge, the episode Timeless where this happens I think is still about 5 years before the future parts of AGT.

So eventually I would say yes but if the novels are set in 2386 then its up to 4 years before the Comm Badge design changes and 4 to 9 for the uniforms.

Edited as Jinn pointed out I was naming a completely wrong century.

 

[Jinn]

I think you all mean 2386 instead of 2286.

 

[Dayton Ward]

At some point I would say it should be changed to one of the uniforms and combadges we've previously glimpsed in the future.

Except that they look horrible.

That's right. I said it.

 

[Jinn]

Except that they look horrible.

That's right. I said it.

*gasps* Blasphemy!!!111!!1!!

 

[Stevil2001]

I'm not a fan of the future uniform, either.

I do really like the "All Good Things"/"The Visitor"/"Timeless"/"Endgame" comm badge, though.

 

[JD]

I was actually wondering about this just the other day. I think the FC/late DS9 uniforms are one of the longest lasting ones we've seen so far.

 

[ryan123450]

But if there'd been a post-Voy series, there'd have been a new uniform design for it.

 

[Idran]

I was actually wondering about this just the other day. I think the FC/late DS9 uniforms are one of the longest lasting ones we've seen so far.

Do you mean real-time or in-universe? Because the TWoK uniforms lasted around 60 years or so; from Wrath of Khan to at least as late as 2344 on the Ent-C. Though I guess you could count removing the turtleneck as a uniform change?

 

[DS9forever]

Keep the First Contact uniforms please. Nothing from ST Online or the comics.

 

[Idran]

Keep the First Contact uniforms please. Nothing from ST Online or the comics.

When people are talking about future uniforms, I think they mean the 2390s-and-on one we saw on the show, in "All Good Things", "The Visitor", and "Endgame". This one: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Starfleet_uniform_(alternate)#Starfleet_uniform_.282390s-2420s.29

 

[starburst]

I think you all mean 2386 instead of 2286.

That I did... Spend too often discussing the TOS crews era (be it TOS, movies or Kelvin), will edit

I'm not a fan of the future uniform, either.

I do really like the "All Good Things"/"The Visitor"/"Timeless"/"Endgame" comm badge, though.

Same, never really liked the uniform but have always liked the badge!

 

[Markonian]

FC uniform with AGT combadge. Like La Forge's in "Timeless". That's my favourite combo, and if you have STO you can try it out for yourself.

One thing though, I wish engineering and security had different colours, like in ROTF and STO. There are several prominent colours left to use - orange, teal/cyan, purple, a clear blue/green separation.

 

[JD]

Do you mean real-time or in-universe? Because the TWoK uniforms lasted around 60 years or so; from Wrath of Khan to at least as late as 2344 on the Ent-C. Though I guess you could count removing the turtleneck as a uniform change?

Oh that's right. I tend to just think about the fact that we only saw them in six movies and a handful of episodes, but I forget about the fact that they used them for the entire time from those movies to just before TNG.

 

[Shamrock Holmes]

FC uniform with AGT combadge. Like La Forge's in "Timeless". That's my favourite combo, and if you have STO you can try it out for yourself.

One thing though, I wish engineering and security had different colours, like in ROTF and STO. There are several prominent colours left to use - orange, teal/cyan, purple, a clear blue/green separation.

When I was working on my Cage-era variation (which could easily be adapted to FC-style) I had five core colours: Red for Engineering, Yellow for Operations (including Communications and Transporters), Green for Flight Control/Tactical and Commandos, Cyan for Services (including Logistics, Mess, Admin and Legal) and Lilac for Research (including Medical, Life/Social Sciences, Space Sciences and Physical/Space Sciences).

Security and field medics I figured would be somewhat spread between yellow, green and cyan depending on assignment (Regular guards could probably be Ops, but SWAT/SpecOps-type would probably wear green. Field Medics would likewise wear green if Commando-rated, cyan if operated as an independent/cross-trained practioner [ala the RN or RAN cook/medic] and lilac if also qualified as a (research) lab technician).

 

[Emperor Norton]

I suppose it depends which future you believe in. None are canon, as they are only possible futures. There's the solid color shirt with high pants, which I've personally never been fond of but it is interesting as something our heroes would wear when they are old and past their heyday. There is the continuance of FC uniform, albeit modified with that one future combadge. And the STO 2409 uniform has become popular in a lot of licensed works for a general "the future" uniform, despite only being used for a year in STO and existing only in the 25th century in that canon.

I think you all mean 2386 instead of 2286.

We're in the Nexus.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Oh that's right. I tend to just think about the fact that we only saw them in six movies and a handful of episodes, but I forget about the fact that they used them for the entire time from those movies to just before TNG.

FASA's Next Gen Officer's Manual, which pre-dates TNG's budget-mandated recycling of the TOS movie uniforms, has a couple of different pre-TNG uniform designs.

Back to post-TNG unis, I'm quite fond of Countdown's uniforms which IIRC were from Star Trek Online promotional art.

 

[Jinn]

We're in the Nexus.

Say "hi" to Kirk from me.