First Look at Captain Lorca (blurry bridge of DSC)

[Kevin Wolff]

Dang, he looks good in anything. My favorite is the season 3 TOS uniform though.

Spock and McCoy looked fine in the synthetic, but by season 3 Kirk's man boobs were coming in and the stretched out wool of early s1 would have helped hide them. He's constantly adjusting his shirt in S3 to the point you can almost see his discomfort. The TOS uniforms are saved by the pants and boots though. They still work to this day.

 

[Jesse1066]

Spock and McCoy looked fine in the synthetic, but by season 3 Kirk's man boobs were coming in and the stretched out wool of early s1 would have helped hide them. He's constantly adjusting his shirt in S3 to the point you can almost see his discomfort. The TOS uniforms are saved by the pants and boots though. They still work to this day.

I came across this when I did a Google image search for "Captain Kirk season 3."
http://www.leviathanstudios.com/figures/kirk/

 

[Refuge]

.. by season 3 Kirk's man boobs were coming in..

That is funny.

The thing with zips down the middle and even belts and crossover accents they are usually saved for cuddlier characters. By the time TOS characters were in Wrath of Khan they were all trussed up and cinched with polo necks. Except for Montalbán - now those were man boobs.

Agree about the pants and boots of the TOS uniforms. It breaks the color block.

 

[Noname Given]

Wait till we see the first guest star officer who's not so Hollywood slim. Imagine Colm Meaney wearing that.

IDK - the Season 1 Full One Piece Spandex TNG uniforms were worse than ST: D's in that regard.

 

[Pure Antiproton]

Wow, guys. We are really getting some Trek back on tv! Already some press coming in and this is punching all the right console buttons for me. Hard to do anything except wait for the next drop. Too blue! Great stuff.

 

[Tarek71]

I don't mind the blue. Various shades of blue are the dominant color range of Air Force uniforms throughout the world. There are some grays in there and other colors, but blues dominate. So that's fine. But in looking at those same uniforms, I don't see a lot of fru-fru design elements like the silly metallic accents/highlights and mesh pattern. Some pockes, badges, patches, clearer insignia and no fru-fru would help.

 

[Skywalker]

I honestly think the metallic pattern on the sides (and on the shoulders for the captains) is fine, it's just the bands around the arms that throws things off. I wonder how the uniform would look if those were gone.

I do agree that black pants might be an improvement, too.

 

[Jesse1066]

I honestly think the metallic pattern on the sides (and on the shoulders for the captains) is fine, it's just the bands around the arms that throws things off. I wonder how the uniform would look if those were gone.

I do agree that black pants might be an improvement, too.

Not my finest work, but enough to get the idea:

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

I was hoping that he'd be blue and we'd have our first alien captain, oh well

 

[Mudd]

There are way too many "aliens" on Star Trek already. One or two regulars are more than enough.

 

[RAMA]

Along with Isaac's "blue steel" look, I think we should call the uniform "celestial cobalt".

 

[RAMA]

There are way too many "aliens" on Star Trek already. One or two regulars are more than enough.

Well in reality, humans would be a tiny minority in the Federation, so any amount of aliens wouldn't be too much. The budget is another matter.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

DSC is still the worst one. Looks like it's from the 1979 Buck Rodgers. Can you put Twiki and Dr. Theo in there?

Forget Twiki. Somebody needs to put Wilma Deering in there! Although I'm divided between Season 1 Colonel Deering or Season 2 air hostess Wilma!

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

I'm hoping that's his steely-eyed starship captain glare. Otherwise, it seems as if they overstarched his pants.

 

[Kevin Wolff]

Forget Twiki. Somebody needs to put Wilma Deering in there! Although I'm divided between Season 1 Colonel Deering or Season 2 air hostess Wilma!

ughh, season 2. Where even women could be neutered. I still remember my father yelling at the screen when that old professor said to Wilma during a battle, "Are you hurt, child?" My father yelled "She's a Colonel, stupid ass!".

 

[Kevin Wolff]

IDK - the Season 1 Full One Piece Spandex TNG uniforms were worse than ST: D's in that regard.

True, but for those few that could pull off the look, they looked pretty good. Picard, of course, and,,,uhhh,, I guess it was just one. Even Data looked bad.

 

[Mudd]

Well in reality, humans would be a tiny minority in the Federation, so any amount of aliens wouldn't be too much. The budget is another matter.

None of this could ever be real or ever will be, within the universe we actually inhabit.

Most aliens in Star Trek are dramatic cheats, in that the treatment of these kinds of characters has never really evolved over the decades and they tend to take screen time and therefore opportunities for character development, interaction and conflict away from human beings.

How about the show spends time on human characters who really do come from a variety of backgrounds and real, existing human cultures? Trek gives a lot of lip service to showing people in the future overcoming their different beliefs, prejudices and misunderstandings to live and work in cooperative and productive ways, but it almost never shows any of that: just a lot of Americans and Brits speaking with funny accents and all behaving very, very much like middle class Americans. Oh, and some actors with stuff glued on their faces.

 

[Kevin Wolff]

Not my finest work, but enough to get the idea:

Big improvement. I think the notion of them finally wearing "clothing" instead of "costuming" stuck with me after Trek09. Those uniforms were far from perfect (saggy pants for one), but I liked the direction. Beyond was a step backwards.
I guess my biggest gripe is I can't pull off this look for Halloween cosplay. And with the Klingons mostly skinny now too, my only options left are Tellerite or Packled.

 

[cultcross]

How about the show spends time on human characters who really do come from a variety of backgrounds and real, existing human cultures? Trek gives a lot of lip service to showing people in the future overcoming their different beliefs, prejudices and misunderstandings to live and work in cooperative and productive ways, but it almost never shows any of that: just a lot of Americans and Brits speaking with funny accents and all behaving very, very much like middle class Americans. Oh, and some actors with stuff glued on their faces.

This. Diversity of modern humans on Trek is much more important to me than the presence of made up aliens. Because the show is for, and ultimately about, modern humans. The 'realism' of the 'Homo Sapiens Only Club' isn't something that bothers me (although I'd be OK with them actually addressing that accusation maturely on screen, because that would be real world relevant. Does Starfleet represent the community it serves? If not, why not?)

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Aliens simply provide an allegory. Was
"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" about Cheronians or humans? Was "The Outcast" really about the J'naii or about humans? Was "The Cloud Minders" really about alien or real human "Troglytes"?

The only argument against that I can see is that we've progressed enough in society (and in television) that allegories aren't needed anymore to represent serious real-world social issues.