Thoughts on Discovery Starfleet Uniforms (Trailer Edition)
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Yep, colored tunic with black insets and trim is definitely the way to go. Order of magnitude better.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg claimed the reason that Discovery will premiere a whopping nine months after it was originally slated was the fact that the tons and tons of work needed to build a world like Star Trek in terms of sets and costume designs seemingly took a lot longer than anyone involved on the show actually expected.
Harberts: There’s is so much artistry and custom craftsmanship that go into every prop, every costume, every set. These things have to be designed and manufactured. We flew a costume designer to Switzerland to pick up the fabric for the Starfleet uniforms. Several items on our uniforms are 3D printed. Some of our sets can take over six weeks to make. CBS has given us the time and the money to make something the fans will find worthwhile.
Berg: You can’t cut corners or have 95 percent of what’s on screen be completely original and inspired and then have five percent something you bought at a store. It has to be cohesive — and it is. I’m so proud of what’s on screen, it’s so beautiful and it’s taking world-building to a whole new level.
Harberts: There’s is so much artistry and custom craftsmanship that go into every prop, every costume, every set. These things have to be designed and manufactured. We flew a costume designer to Switzerland to pick up the fabric for the Starfleet uniforms. Several items on our uniforms are 3D printed. Some of our sets can take over six weeks to make. CBS has given us the time and the money to make something the fans will find worthwhile.
Berg: You can’t cut corners or have 95 percent of what’s on screen be completely original and inspired and then have five percent something you bought at a store. It has to be cohesive — and it is. I’m so proud of what’s on screen, it’s so beautiful and it’s taking world-building to a whole new level.
Sounds interesting, but it always concerned me that it kept getting pushed back. I guess, since it's been 10 years, it's a whole new crew behind the cameras as well. No other series in the franchise, to my recollection, has had this kind of delay getting off the ground. I wouldn't think this is their first rodeo, but maybe it is for most of them. 
Sounds interesting, but it always concerned me that it kept getting pushed back. I guess, since it's been 10 years, it's a whole new crew behind the cameras as well. No other series in the franchise, to my recollection, has had this kind of delay getting off the ground. I wouldn't think this is their first rodeo, but maybe it is for most of them.
Part of what I'm thinking also is that with some series now, there is an amount of green screen for sets and so on, where this is going much more for physical sets and such. One example is the sarcophagus ship. On a series like Once Upon A Time on ABC, that would have been green screened. But we saw the physical construction taking place.
Plus like you said, this may be the first actual production of a series with such high demand on production that they aren't used to it and want to work carefully to get it right.
I don't think it's unreasonable to want/prefer a uniform that generally conforms to the era the show is set in. The new uniform couldn't possibly coexist with the ones in The Cage, not because it's "too advanced" but for other reasons, like a completely different rank system. I think the catch with reimaginings is that everyone imagines something a little bit different. In the end, the only imagining that really matters is the official one, but we don't necessarily have to like it.
It's still television and the characters and their placement within a scene need to "read" so the viewer can quickly identify them. Colors help with that, as does clear rank insignias. Colors also show Starfleet as as peaceful explorers rather than military soldiers. BOO to the all BLUE "dress" uniforms. *double sigh*
Maybe I'm just strange, but in all my decades of watching Star Trek, I have never once payed attention to the rank insignia on the collar/sleeve.
No, I'm just like that, too. I can't say I ever understood/memorized the TOS ranking on the sleeves. Let alone the ranking insignia in the movie era. I'm completely fine with the ranking pips on the delta.
I started noticing right after Q made himself a captain whenever he appeared in uniform.
It's just another layer of detail but inconsequential. Whenever rank was important, it was mentioned.
Aaron Harvey does it again: http://trekmovie.com/2017/06/22/a-close-up-look-at-star-trek-discovery-uniforms-infographic/
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That's not the point. It's the lack of imagination. The insatiable desire for the familiar and the sameness.People have different preferences?!? Film at 11!
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The creators imagined one thing and a lot of other people imagined a lot of other things. You're saying that the people showing their visions of how it could look lack imagination. At least they're creating something.
It's Star Trek! Familiar and sameness are exactly what they are trying to sell us in a shinier wrapper.
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