Discovery's uniform insignia...combadge?
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The new combadge was actually introduced in Generations.
Yeah. Brain wiggled. You would think I would know that having worn the tng uniform with that badge a time or three. Sigh. Tá.
I thought the stories were more important, to be honest.
Yeah well, they were in the process of introducing a new uniform, but it got scrapped at the last minute; they kept the original TNG uniform and as we saw, gave some of the actors the DS9 costumes. I can't recall why the shifted. Only the combadges were kept at the end.
Exactly. Roddenberry's original pitch for the Trek concept specifically said as follows (partially bolded by me for emphasis):
Star Trek is... said:
That's what Star Trek means to me. IMO, certain later Trek productions struck out on both counts, with sanctimonious, perfect characters that can't be related to as real human beings, and too much focus on imaginary technology and reliance on nonsensical technobabble gibberish to get out of the predicament of the week.
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They had made the action figures too. Only shot the deleted Geordi torture scene with them, and I think basically they just decided they were too different, especially placed in a familiar from TV setting, and would have had a knock on for the upcoming Voyager as well as on Ds9. Brand awareness was different to the TOS movie era.
In an interview, when talking about ENT, Rick Berman said that a TV exec wanted to have the next Trek show(back in 2001) set in the 25th century, to which Rick answered "What would that mean? Tighter uniforms and smaller tricorders?" As in, it would just be more of the same old same old.
If so, figures. The tighter uniforms bit is hella funny.
Exactly so.
It's not all that likely that we'll see stuff outside of the 23rd century again, except maybe in brief glimpses.
Didn't we get tighter uniforms and smaller Tricorders in Enterprise anyway?
25th century is no harder to do than the 24th was going from the 23rd.
That; we did. Yeah, I believe so, cause really who knows how the 25th century is like. It's as much speculation as the 22nd, or 23rd or 24th or 29th, 31st, etc, what we've seen so far. And even events like mid and late 21st century that are even closer to us. Besides it's a scifi show, just make the best prediction on stuff that you can and then focus on the storytelling.
They switched from the Motorola '86 Brick version in TNG to late 90's popout version in ENT. That, and Vulcans find tight fitting uniforms to be logical. Oh, and 31st century timecops share in this logic.
I think in a producer's mind ENT has potential vs a 25th century series as it's both a sequel to First Contact and a Prequel to the rest of the shows.
The "First Contact" part of First Contact was an interesting story that imo deserved to be expanded upon.
Oops, I forgot. 22nd century Suliban-Temporal-Renegade-Genetically-Enhanced-Mercenaries also find a snug 'fit logical. So do 22nd century Andorians.
So do 20th century human 22nd century Augments. Except they like to cut lots and lots of strips out of their clothes to express themselves.
if this is set 10 years before TOS why the hell would they use combadges? I'm interested to see what the communicators look like.
I don't think the uniforms were tighter, but we got a lot more topless/underwear scenes.
The temperature was also apparently dropped significantly whenever a female was in a tight top.
That may have been genetics. That or my family are part Vulcan.
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