Kelvin Blue Uniforms
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Seemed to be a midway stage between the ENT jumpsuits, and The Cage blue away-team uniforms...
On www.startrekmovie.com, Costume Designer Michael Kaplan states that if the Enterprise (ship not show) uniforms represent the 60s of science fiction than the Kelvin uniforms represent the 50s of science fiction.
Then I guess the Enterprise(show) uniforms represent the 40s of science fiction.
How about this one? Coveralls, HBT, 1942
Why should anything from that abyssmal failure be represented here? I knew two years ago that this new movie would at least be better than every single episode of Enterprise, Voyager, and DS9. Why? Because Rick Berman and Brannon Braga were having nothing to do with it. After TNG wrapped up, those fools went insane!
Let us consider that Archer and the NX-01 never existed! Hey, it's Star Trek. Anything is possible.
They all still exist, and this isn't the place for bashing shows you don't happen to like. The remark about the uniforms from Enterprise was a legitimate observation to make here, and on-topic. Yours isn't adding much that's useful to the discussion.
I didn't mean it to. It's rediculous to think ever single Star Trek vehicle is going to be recognized in the rebirth of Star Trek. Why would Abrams want to pay homage to some piece of UPN crap that was cancelled because of lack of interest?
He wouldn't.
Actually in this timeline Enterprise is the only series that would have direct relevance. It's the only one that actually happened in this timeline, the rest were in the Prime timeline.
He did. It's on film and on the screen. It matters not whether you think it "rediculous"; it's there.
Now, shall we get back to the topic of the Kelvin uniforms?
M'Sharak;3065584He did. It's on film and on the screen. It matters not whether you think it "rediculous"; it's there. Now said:
Taken from http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/02/27/star-treks-costume-designer-on-updating-the-uniforms/ -
[Material quoted from article placed in quote tags for clarity. - M']
This says you're wrong. It also implies, quite correctly, that Enterprise sucked. Sorry.
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Phooey! Now I have to go and hide because there is a reference to Enterprise... /sigh
Well, at least I scored a point because it's clear Kaplan, in his own words, was not drawing on, or making reference to, Archer's uniform.
Dog humping by a lonely Scot. That's a side of Scotty's pysche that's better left undiscovered.
No. You've misread the quote, and appropriated it to prove a weak argument.
Kaplan isn't referencing Enterprise, the series, but rather the costumes found on the USS Enterprise (ship not show) in the original Star Trek. He didn't want to do away with the 60s Enterprise costumes. Update but not throw out Theiss' design and look.
Moreover, Kaplan is on record as having not watched any of the previous Treks. His research consisted of only combing through the reference books to get an idea on the look of the costumes/uniforms. So he really isn't going to comment on the quality of one show versus the other.
His statements were solely on the work he was doing, which was updating Theiss' classic uniform design.
In the interview you link to, when Kaplan takes about the "TV show", he is talking only about the original series and not any of it's follow-ups or the prequel series.
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^ Yep, that's the way I read that too. Pure trolling.
I'm pretty sure he's talking there about the updated uniforms worn by the crew of this movie's USS Enterprise, and not at all about the series which featured the NX-01 crew, but whatever; it changes nothing. Star Trek: Enterprise is still referenced in the movie.
And this I think we can do without.
You can all suck my ridges!
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