Admiral Mark Jameson and the 90's Professor X

[ManOnTheWave]

Jim Lee, who redesigned the X-Men costumes, logos, and equipment around 1991 was a Trek fan. So the similarity between chairs is likely deliberate. However, Lee's Professor X wheelchair wasn't supposed to be a hover chair. Rather it road around on a giant ball.

I've been rereading his X-Men work, and LCARS definitely pops up here and there.

I seem to remember X-Men watching Star Trek on TV ia couple of times.

 

[FormerLurker]

^The original design by Dave Cockrum had a cape, that draped between the back of the shoulders and the bracelets. The 'swimsuit' was a sleeveless leotard that came up the neck as a choker-type design. It never had the red gem. And I prefer the tall boots to the footie pajamas seen here.

Cape: I know, that's why I called it a poncho earlier. In the costume I showed the cape is still attached to the bracelets, it just doesn't drape over her shoulders anymore.

I prefer the pants to the tigh-high boots which are actually the one element of her original design I'm not a fan off.

The gem: yes she had it.

Anyway I'm happy with any variation of her original black and yellow costume.

Most people probably don't realize it, but Storm and Luke Cage are wearing the same kind of boots. Those thigh highs are just buccaneer boots with the folded over part pulled up so there's one layer of boot going farther up the leg. Which is what buccaneer boots were designed for. It kept the water from getting in the boots when they made landfall and jumped onto the beach.