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Thoughts on Discovery Starfleet Uniforms (Trailer Edition)
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You have not been to the klingon thread yet it seems.
It's not an interpretation of a preexisting look. It's a whole new look which is, at best, "meh" and heavily clashes with the timeline.
Then just treat it as a reboot or alternate timeline and give it a try. You may find you enjoy it if you let personal Star Trek baggage go.
Since I see different elements being incorporated from several designs, I think it is an interpretation, with different people responding differently.
I'm still waiting to see what the exact context of the uniforms is within the show, and reserve judgement until then. As for a visual aesthetic, I like them.
Or it's all just another holodeck simulation that Riker's cooked up to soothe his aching mind over some drama.
I wonder how they'd react to the revamp of the Klingons in TMP back in the day. First they were essentially human looking moustache twirling villians, next they were half beast-man samurai vikings.
Or how the special effects for warping keeps changing
My friend @Mark 2000 shares his thoughts on the Discovery uniforms in this article.
http://trekcomic.com/2017/05/24/star-trek-plays-the-sci-fi-blues/
And I agree. Discovery's aesthetic doesn't seem vibrant and exciting. It seems rather drab and looks like every other sci-fi TV show produced in the last few years.
http://trekcomic.com/2017/05/24/star-trek-plays-the-sci-fi-blues/
And I agree. Discovery's aesthetic doesn't seem vibrant and exciting. It seems rather drab and looks like every other sci-fi TV show produced in the last few years.
The uniforms look good to me, but they kinda remind me of these Starfleet outdoor uniforms from Beyond.
It is missing a splash of color. But Trek has been pretty drab, overall, since Deep Space Nine.
It seems like everything we've seen in the trailer revolves around the Shenzhou and her crew. I'm assuming the Discovery is not in service during the events of the first episode but is commissioned to accomplish a specific task resulting from the events of the first episode(s). This would explain why we haven't yet seen all the Discovery crew members even though we've seen others who are already serving on the Shenzhou. By the time the Discovery is commissioned, perhaps the uniforms will change from those in the trailer to something closer to The Cage or the original series. I'm hoping that they are purposely holding aspects of the show back so as to give the fans some things to enjoy when the show is broadcast.
The costumes we see look pretty expensive and well thought out. I wouldn't bank on them changing.
They did at least retain the moustaches in TMP.
I also didn't count the TOS Season 3 uniforms (new material, different cut of female uniform), the early TNG Season 3 uniforms (different material, two extra seams down the front), the TATV uniforms (epaulettes, name tag, extra mission patch), Jack Crusher's uniform (same as Yesterday's Enterprise but with a TNG combadge), or the 29th century uniforms seen in Voyager. I may have missed something else as well.
Why would you want it to be consistent with what Bob Justman admitted in the 1960's was a mistake?
"CBS finally dropped a full length trailer for Star Trek: Discovery last week revealing a lot of the aesthetic for the new series. While many were ranting about the Klingons, I was more interested in Star Fleet’s fashion choices. I can’t speak to Discovery’s plot or characters, but I certainly have an opinion on its look and it is… bland. The most underwhelming thing about it are the Star Fleet uniforms, which are all one color now – blue. Science fiction has had a thing for blue, tight collared uniforms for nearly thirty years now. Rather than embracing the color Star Trek has mostly been associated with, like the JJ Abrams films did, Discovery seems to be jumping on an overcrowded bandwagon. I can’t say I’m thrilled.
Discovery also has to contend with sets and ships that look wildly out of place with the era they’re supposed to be in. Ten years before “Kirk and Spock” is “Pike and Spock”. Fifty years later, the original Enterprise bridge stands out as a design classic – simple and functional, yet colorful and energetic. The Discovery bridge looks like every other grey, dark, over-designed, blue-lit ship set we’ve see many times before. People like to crap on the JJ films, but they really stood out, visually, from everything around them. So far, Discovery looks incredibly generic."
That's how it was supposed to me, and only in a production error were different patches designed and used.
It's odd in a way. I mean I like the way they have done the ship, it fits. Then they did this other thing with the uniforms, just went .. different.
Fiction is mutable. Actually is not.
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