Not sure I see the problem.
Do we know why Pike and co are in the different uniforms?
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Not sure I see the problem.
The writers clearly didn't.
The Enterprise-D crew went through how many uniform changes during its seven years on the air and up to "First Contact"? In fact, I remember that when "DS9" first premiered, Sisko and his Federation crew seemed to be wearing uniforms different from Picard.
This was the Enterprise-D crew around Season 6 (1992-1993):
This is the Deep Space Nine crew during the show's Season 1 (1993):
Why were the two crews wearing different uniforms during the same year?
This was the Enterprise-D crew around Season 6 (1992-1993):
This is the Deep Space Nine crew during the show's Season 1 (1993):
Why were the two crews wearing different uniforms during the same year?
The Enterprise-D crew went through how many uniform changes during its seven years on the air and up to "First Contact"? In fact, I remember that when "DS9" first premiered, Sisko and his Federation crew seemed to be wearing uniforms different from Picard.
This was the Enterprise-D crew around Season 6 (1992-1993):
This is the Deep Space Nine crew during the show's Season 1 (1993):
Why were the two crews wearing different uniforms during the same year?
Again, they were supposed to be different classes of uniform. The TNG ones were more formal (though less so than full dress uniforms) and the DS9 ones were utilitarian worksuits. It was customary to wear them on the station because it was a dirtier, more rugged environment than a starship.Well both uniforms were in play on DS9
Sisko, Bashir and Dax arrive wearing the TNG uniforms.
For another example, the crew of the Prometheus in "Second Sight" (DS9) were wearing the TNG-style ones as well:
Also, Sisko changed back into his when he returned to Earth in "Homefront" (DS9):
Of course, we later saw that some starships, like Voyager, also favored the jumpsuits.
Me neither. Tough crowd.
-MMoM
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Which was the point I was trying to make.
Oh, I know. I was just fleshing it out with further examples. Sorry if it seemed otherwise.
-MMoM
Because that's far more realistic than one standardized uniform over several different posts.
What isn't realistic is the two different ways of denoting rank.
Why? The Navy does it.
Maybe? But a captain indicated one way doesn't look like a lieutenant commander on the other.
And aren't theses usually worn in conjunction with one another?
Nope.
How so? Lt Commander= two stripes or three dots.
Lieutenant Commander would be two full and one black pip (Discovery/TNG), Captain is two full stripes and one broken (TOS). They are the same breakdown, just one uses stripes, the other pips.
Beyond that, it just seemed silly to bring the TNG rank style into a show that is supposed to lead into TOS. The actual Discovery arrowheads just look so much better without the pips.
A very minor change. Still looked pretty good. You would think with their obsession with deltas they would do that anyway.
The Beyond ones didn't have the deltas.
I think people can parse stripes vs pips the same they parse bars and stripes in the modern Navy.
