Spoilers Visual continuity - Does Discovery strictly need to show past designs... at all?
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Heh, yeah. As I said I like his style, but his uniform porn is just to much for me. For me, it just brings me out of the book and is too jarring.
Here's the Beyond uniforms with TOS blue.
Still not a fan, although I did love that movie.
That's okay. I like the colors. I loved the movie as well. It's my favorite Kelvin Timeline movie. I'll mess around with the Discovery uniforms a little later. A while back someone did a drawing of a TOS/ENT combination uniform with a colored jacket and black pants. I'll have to find that drawing as it would have been cool to see on film.
Indeed. One of the few parts that I liked about a lot of fan designs, that included more utility uniforms and the like.
Seriously, this feels more like a vendetta against TOS than anything else.
I guess I'll just be the odd one out, but I like TOS colors and the uniform variation. I enjoy the clean, nondescript look of the ship and corridors. Maybe because I didn't live through the 60s or am removed from the societal context but TOS also felt like future to me. It doesn't feel dated in the way that is constantly lambasted. Is it as advanced as today? No, of course not. But, it works better when not viewed as "60s."
It was the best of the three, it was pure up TOS in feel and it had a balance to its pacing the others lacked. I do think they update the uniform at some point just to sell merch if nothing else.I would be interested to see what they do,
I don't hate TOS, but it will always look campy and 1960's to me. And for novels to put of those 1960's styling without need is just silly. I mean He spend like a paragraph talking about why a female captain wore pants! So yeah, I kinda mock that stuff as to me it was silly.
I've never understood the need to describe Star Trek costumes in a Star Trek novel, especially if it's a character we know. Sounds like a writer trying to be writerly. Kirk's avocado green tunic took on a gold like hue in the odd lighting of the briefing room.... 
Save the fancy prose for something we don't know!!!!!
Save the fancy prose for something we don't know!!!!!
I've never understood the need to describe Star Trek costumes in a Star Trek novel, especially if it's a character we know. Sounds like a writer trying to be writerly. Kirk's avocado green tunic took on a gold like hue in the odd lighting of the briefing room....
Save the fancy prose for something we don't know!!!!!
This is me, if its a novel with out a show attached you need to maybe do that. But its Trek, we do not need to know what the uniform looks like.
Unfortunately I couldn't find the drawing I mentioned earlier so I just modified the Franklin uniforms that looked similar to them and gave them the good old TOS color pallet.
*sigh*
Then, I guess I won't understand it.
I prefer that. I want the novel to treat things like a person hasn't seen them.I've never understood the need to describe Star Trek costumes in a Star Trek novel, especially if it's a character we know. Sounds like a writer trying to be writerly. Kirk's avocado green tunic took on a gold like hue in the odd lighting of the briefing room....
Save the fancy prose for something we don't know!!!!!
Unfortunately I couldn't find the drawing I mentioned earlier so I just modified the Franklin uniforms that looked similar to them and gave them the good old TOS color pallet.
They need another color or something, but those are not a bad base. Maybe make the the darker materials black
I'll give it a shot.
Which is ridiculous. I should be able to understand it to some level.
I'll give it a shot.
Maybe not man, I mean it would look kinda costume and like a black star on their chest with shoulder pads lol
Sometimes you just can't. I understand that, We had this one the ship design as well. On that one I can't understand how folks don't see something , that to me is clear. It happens, only you know what is and is not "futuristic" looking to you.
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