It's odd because they can have 3 uniforms in short periods (TOS/TMP/TWOK or TNGs1-2/TNGs3-7/DS9-VOY/FC) and seemingly 2 types in the time period between Picard and the flashbacks.
Yet they had the monster maroons for possibly 60(?) years with and without the turtleneck. Yeah, I know they aren't going to create costumes for that many eras they won't use, but even some official artwork with a timeline would be cool.
Yep, this will be the same old thing -- it's a TV show and they're only gonna design and make the costumes for whichever bits of history they actually need for any given episode or story arc. It was interesting to watch this happen with the timescales from TOS to the TNG/DS9/VOY era shows but now that they have a "gap" of
hundreds of years, it's likely we'll never see all of the full continuity in terms of Federation and Starfleet history.
I also think there's a good chance they're going to loose track of things because this will just be too big for them and they're just not tracking the continuity like previous production teams.
As much as I appreciated the flashback to Kaminar joining the Federation, just when exactly was that meant to happen? I liked the light grey uniforms but they look like they shouldn't be more than a couple hundred years prior to 3189, if that. Given the events of S2, I'd have expected Kaminar to have joined the Federation by, say, the TNG-era at the latest, even if we never saw it on-screen. I think they would have been better off
not using their only other badge design (the Adm Tal badge) and very "recent" looking uniforms -- in fact, they could have legitimately used something like classic TNG costumes for this segment.
I have no idea what the costume for the holo "
Tech" was meant to be -- that was just a weird mash-up. I suspect this might be one of those costume blips that it's better not to over-think because I don't think there
is a sensible explanation...! If anything, the holo
Tech should have been wearing the more recent uniform that immediately preceded the Adm. Tal uniform, possibly with the same combadge, as that would seem to be about right for the time of the Burn, but the Kaminar flashbacks should have been much older uniforms and clearly different, possibly TNG, possibly even the
Picard uniforms if they wanted to set Kaminar joining somewhat later but still save money by using readily available costumes!
The FASA Trekverse has a variety of different manufacturers for things like phasers and warp technology, multiple firms that at times are in competition with each other. They also had a couple of interesting TNG era uniforms, like a specific gray variant for warrant officers.
Yeah, but when did FASA ever have anything to do with what happened in the shows, apart from borrowing the name and a few basic concepts?! They went way off-track into creating stuff that had nothing to do with canon Trek.
a pity they no longer make anything like the Fact Files: they always had a ball with things like these.
It would be interesting for sure but the Fact Files were not necessarily fully accurate.
