Poll What do you think of the Starfleet uniforms in Star Trek: Picard?
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And all the fans who have similar issues (like me) are relieved their issues are canon now XD
Random question: based on episode 2
Is yellow the new command colour or is the Commodore more like Admiral Toddman from DS9 - wearing operations yellow for some reason? Hope it’s not the former - I bought a red cosplay shirt especially 
Random question: based on episode 2
Is yellow the new command colour or is the Commodore more like Admiral Toddman from DS9 - wearing operations yellow for some reason? Hope it’s not the former - I bought a red cosplay shirt especially
It's the latter.
Really should see more flag officers like that.It's the latter.
It's the latter.
Thank God.
That was a £30 shirt!
It would make sense, wouldn’t it? Why would an Admiral in charge of Starfleet Medical not wear blue/teal/whatever shade they’re using these days, for example?
where are the uniforms in the preview? I've watched it about 5 times and can't see them.And in the preview for the next one too
Agreed. The uniform does look better close-up and the texturing on the fabric of the shoulders and collar helps to make it look a lot less bland. Noticeably, the costumes for the more significant characters also look much better tailored to the individual actors and that helps quite considerably too!
It seems very clear now that the combadges all look the same with mirror polish silver / chrome arrowhead outline and a sort of dull graphite grey for the backing plates. Of note, the rank pips also seem to be polished silver and the same is true for the pips and edging on the flag officer rank bars. At some points, particularly Admiral Clancy, it looks like the background of the rank bars is the same dull graphite grey as the back of the combadge although at other times it just looks black -- but I suspect this is just the lighting. It would be a nice consistent design feature if the had indeed opted to use silver and dull grey for both.
It's good to see the one-pip rank confirmed on-screen as "Commodore" so that we can safely put that discussion to rest! I'm kinda glad that they have opted to put a senior officer in the standard duty uniform with no other embellishments apart from the rank insignia. The use of specific division color is also a nice touch.
The grey jacket for Admiral Clancy may be something of a one-off that she she has chosen to adopt, given her unique role; I suspect we may not see this uniform used for other flag officers. I'm surprised they didn't take the option to just reverse the jacket colors for flag officers and simply use the exact same design as the standard uniform just with division colored body and sleeves and black shoulders and collar. At least Clancy does have an undershirt in Command burgundy.
Very, very brief appearance -- blink and you'll miss it. Right at the end of the opening flashback scenes; you can just make out the Operations gold on the shoulders of the security guards -- it also looks like they're also wearing some sort of body armor similar to the security armor from TMP / TWOK. The uniforms have the distinctive detailing of that version of the Starfleet uniforms with black / division colour stripes below the colored yoke. It's really not very obvious though!
Absolutely agree! Yes, Command burgundy may be the understandable default colour for most HQ / Staff roles but it does make sense that the various senior officers in particular Starfleet branches such as Engineering and Security or Sciences and Medicine would indeed wear their branch-specific colors. There has always been a precedent for non-Command senior officers going right back to TOS but but we just rarely see them on-screen as they haven't been part of the stories the shows have chosen to tell. From a production point of view, it also helps viewers to associate characters with particular roles and/or loyalties -- which is, I suspect, largely why we saw Adm. Todman wear Operations gold in DS9 -- and for the production team, that's as good a reason as any!
I like the uniforms better up close, with the ST'09-style texturing on the shoulders.
I've had another look at the uniform for Adm. Clancy (the joys of pausing HD...) and it has confirmed a thought I had before but wasn't fully convinced about: I think the grey tunic and black side panels are all intended to subtly echo the formal uniform worn by Adm. Kirk at the start of TMP. It's only a vague hint, but it's there.
Another look at the close up shots of the Commodore also confirm that the line of black piping below the colored yoke that can be seen on the STO version of the costume is indeed there on the real thing tin the show too -- although why they would make it black and all but invisible seems an odd choice. If, instead, they had made it, say, the same dark grey as Clancy's tunic then it would have added a nice but subtle detail that the uniform seems to be otherwise lacking.
Finally, I didn't believe this at first, but the more I look at the close-ups of the new uniform, the more it looks like the texturing on the colored parts is actually a repeating pattern of tiny Starfleet delta symbols. I really thought they had managed to avoid doing that with this version of the uniform -- but apparently not!!
Another look at the close up shots of the Commodore also confirm that the line of black piping below the colored yoke that can be seen on the STO version of the costume is indeed there on the real thing tin the show too -- although why they would make it black and all but invisible seems an odd choice. If, instead, they had made it, say, the same dark grey as Clancy's tunic then it would have added a nice but subtle detail that the uniform seems to be otherwise lacking.
Finally, I didn't believe this at first, but the more I look at the close-ups of the new uniform, the more it looks like the texturing on the colored parts is actually a repeating pattern of tiny Starfleet delta symbols. I really thought they had managed to avoid doing that with this version of the uniform -- but apparently not!!
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The few frames outside at SFHQ show Picard and others in the Countdown uniforms
The uniforms indeed seem a bit better in the new episode, though a bit bland. I've never been a huge fan of the black from shoulders down style.
I'm glad that commodore is mentioned. It has long been speculated that the rank was discontinued after TOS, but is there actually any evidence for that besides it not being mentioned? I.e. has the one star flag rank ever been referred as some sort of an admiral?
I'm glad that commodore is mentioned. It has long been speculated that the rank was discontinued after TOS, but is there actually any evidence for that besides it not being mentioned? I.e. has the one star flag rank ever been referred as some sort of an admiral?
I must say I’m not a fan of the new uniforms. It’s nice as a homage, however the shoulder colours looked really ridiculous on people. They kinda of remind me of the fake Starfleet uniforms that were used by the fake Captain Janeway and Tuvok in Voyager’s “Live Fast And Prosper” episode. The color on the real Voyager (and early DS9) uniforms only went about half-way down the shoulder , and looked more fitted, whereas the fake ones and the “Picard” uniforms are not fitted and go about half-way down between the shoulder and the elbow.
I think they should’ve dug out the 2395 “All Good Things” uniforms (yes I realize that those uniforms were from a different timeline) and used those.
I think they should’ve dug out the 2395 “All Good Things” uniforms (yes I realize that those uniforms were from a different timeline) and used those.
I thought that the uniforms were poorly fitted and I didn't notice any texture.
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