1986... before TNG...
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And the same goes for Troi's outfit.
The TOS minidresses are definitely a product of the time, and in retrospect are a rather dated concept. The TNG versions were a nod to that, but let's not forget they were designed to be unisex.
Maybe there was a male version of the TOS uniforms too, but we never happened to catch Kirk when he was in the mood?
The TOS minidresses are definitely a product of the time, and in retrospect are a rather dated concept. The TNG versions were a nod to that, but let's not forget they were designed to be unisex.
Maybe there was a male version of the TOS uniforms too, but we never happened to catch Kirk when he was in the mood?
Nardpuncher
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I think the thing that dates the TNG uniforms is the funny arrow the bottom black part makes.
I don't pretend to know much about fashion, but for a quasi-military group to have that sort of weird flourish to the uniform seems out of place. I mean, instead of going straight across at the waist it has that.. I dunno, maybe it's just me, but that seems so "useless". I use the care quotes because I don't know how else to describe how that part of the uniform seems to me.
I don't pretend to know much about fashion, but for a quasi-military group to have that sort of weird flourish to the uniform seems out of place. I mean, instead of going straight across at the waist it has that.. I dunno, maybe it's just me, but that seems so "useless". I use the care quotes because I don't know how else to describe how that part of the uniform seems to me.
I found out about TNG on the Saturday it aired thanks to a promo I saw that morning. I remember the bald guy and thinking that what I was seeing was a promo for a TV movie that takes place between the end of the original series and the movies. Don't know why I thought that, but I did. I was 11 at the time and although I had seen a few episodes of TOS and two movies, I wasn't a Trek fan. Anyway, that night, my dad and I watched the movie and I liked it. I liked it so much that I planned to watch the reairing the next day. The next day was when I found out that the "reairing" was actually another episode in a new TV series.
That first season brought me into Trek and made me a fan.
That first season brought me into Trek and made me a fan.
Worf isn't even in the cast shot. If I remember right, he was supposed to have been a recurring guest, and not a regular, right?
I didn't know about TNG until the early 1990s when we decided to join a video club and when we went along to the store there were all these Star Trek videos with a strange, baldy man on the cover. Needless to say I didn't actually see any of TNG until the BBC started broadcasting it a couple of years later.
The design idea is that it's reflecting human anatomy (specifically the diaphragm, and the division it makes between the chest cavity and the abdomen), just as the coloured lines a bit below the collar reflect the collar bones/clavicles.
Nice idea, but a bit human-centric for Starfleet when you think it through...
And what the hell are Beverly and Geordi looking at?
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
i don't know about Beverly, but LaForge isn't looking at anything.
Sure he is. The little yellow blob next to the black splotch and the wibbly-wobbly lines.i don't know about Beverly, but LaForge isn't looking at anything.
Geordi's vision always looked to me like HBO when you didn't have it as part of your cable package.
Oh, leave Troi alone....
Just blasphemy all around, isn't there...?
Absolutely.
I remember those days. I was around 10 years old when The Voyage Home came out, and I remember my older brother going to go see it with a friend of his and he came home to talk about a new Star Trek series coming out. Ah, the good ol' 80's...
Yep, those were the days.
I'm quite a bit older than you. I was 16 when The Voyage Home came out. I went to see it on Thanksgiving that year with my younger brother (who,like you, was ten at the time), and our mom.
Good times.
Nardpuncher
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I think I found out about TNG first in the letters page at the back of an issue of the DC Comics Trek book.
You know, come to think of it, I'm pretty sure that's how I found out too. I remember at the time, that little blurb by the editor at the top of the letters page was my sole source for Star Trek news for a while.
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
back in those days it was Starlog, too. I have fond memories of flipping to that part near the front where they talked about movies in prodcution.
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