Dressing in period clothes

[lpetrich]

Cosmetic surgery - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki has a big list of cosmetic-surgery jobs in various episodes, and Shapeshifter - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki mentions the various species that can do that action.

But in various episodes, the series characters have worn various period clothes, for reasons like:

• Looking like the local people, including disguising one's identity
• Acting out a part in a simulation, like in a holodeck
• Using what was available

This often happened in holodecks, and Holodeck - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki has a big list of episodes where the holodeck featured prominently, often with period clothes.

Here are the non-holodeck ones that I can recall offhand.

• TOS: The Cage -- a sort of holodeck
• TOS: Return of the Archons
• TOS: City on the Edge of Forever
• TOS: A Private Little War
• TOS: A Piece of the Action
• TOS: Patterns of Force
• TOS: Bread and Circuses
• TOS: Assignment: Earth
• TOS: The Paradise Syndrome
• TNG: Time's Arrow
• DS9: Far Beyond the Stars -- a dream of being a 1950's science-fiction writer
• VOY: The Q and the Grey -- the Q continuum as a US-Civil-War battlefield

 

[T'Girl]

I'm sorry, but was there a question in there, or a line of thought that a thread would follow?

 

[lpetrich]

I'm sorry, but was there a question in there, or a line of thought that a thread would follow?

Which other episodes have had such dressing up?

Anything interesting or special? Like in TOS, Spock's ears always getting covered by some headwear.

I remember another one: TOS The Squire of Gothos, where Trelane dresses one of the crewwomen in some fancy 18th / 19th cy. lady's outfit. Kirk seems curiously jealous about that IMO.

 

[Melakon]

"Far Beyond the Stars" shouldn't even be on the list, because it's all happening in Sisko's head. So is this thread about the characters dressing in period costumes, or the actors?

And "The Cage" isn't some "sort of holodeck", it's telepathic control.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

TNG: The Big Good-bye -- Picard dressed up as Dixon Hill, 1940's

TNG: A Fistful of Datas -- Data, Troi and I forget who else dressed up in 19th century Wild West

TNG: what's the name of the episode where they celebrate Worf's promotion on a period ship?

 

[Melakon]

TNG: what's the name of the episode where they celebrate Worf's promotion on a period ship?

That's in the film Generations I think.

 

[Nerys Myk]

What "period" was the Cage set in? We see Pike in contemporary civilian clothes on Earth and as an Orion trader. In the Rigel sequence he's in uniform.

 

[Finn]

"Far Beyond the Stars" shouldn't even be on the list, because it's all happening in Sisko's head. So is this thread about the characters dressing in period costumes, or the actors?

In his head? I always figured Sisko was experiencing an "glimpse" into an alternate reality brought on by the prophets/wormhole aliens??

 

[Shark]

TNG: what's the name of the episode where they celebrate Worf's promotion on a period ship?

That's in the film Generations I think.

Correct.

 

[Shawnster]

What period are they dressing in for Return of the Archons? That's the contemporary style of clothing for that world. Same holds for Private Little War.

Squire of Gothos - Trelane dressed Yeoman Ross into a gown supposed to reflect the 18th Century period costuming and decor he was using.

 

[Melakon]

"Far Beyond the Stars" shouldn't even be on the list, because it's all happening in Sisko's head. So is this thread about the characters dressing in period costumes, or the actors?

In his head? I always figured Sisko was experiencing an "glimpse" into an alternate reality brought on by the prophets/wormhole aliens??

It's interpretation, I guess. Cassidy doesn't see Michael Dorn without makeup in a baseball uniform, Sisko's the only one who sees Rene Auberjonois out of makeup in a '50s business suit. Whether it's a vision of the prophets or a bad dream, Sisko's the only one affected by it.

But I'm more concerned whether OP means characters or actors.

What period are they dressing in for Return of the Archons? That's the contemporary style of clothing for that world.

Except for Lindstrom's blunder giving Sulu and O'Neill the wrong costumes in the teaser.

 

[lpetrich]

"Far Beyond the Stars" shouldn't even be on the list, because it's all happening in Sisko's head. So is this thread about the characters dressing in period costumes, or the actors?

In his head? I always figured Sisko was experiencing an "glimpse" into an alternate reality brought on by the prophets/wormhole aliens??

It would likely be that. The resemblance of the characters in that alternate reality could be explained in-universe by supposing that the wormhole aliens were using Sisko's acquaintances as starting points for constructing the characters in that reality.

 

[Push The Button]

In Assignment Earth, Spock wore that awesome "grandpa" hat in the Florida scenes.

 

[Drone]

TOS- Plato's Stepchildren

Voyager- Future's End

 

[Captain Rob]

I guess in TOS-"Who Morns for Adonais?" Lt Palomas is dressed in the 'sexy' period.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I guess in TOS-"Who Morns for Adonais?" Lt Palomas is dressed in the 'sexy' period.

The Theiss Epoch.

 

[Greg Cox]

We've got another "princess gown" in "Shore Leave."

Tonia Barrows trades her ripped Starfleet uniform for a fancy fairy-tale dress.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

TNG: what's the name of the episode where they celebrate Worf's promotion on a period ship?

That's in the film Generations I think.

Correct.

Thanks, guys!

 

[Captain Rob]

That was that extra long episode where Troi crashes the ship.
Not to be confused with Nemesis, where she crashes the ship again.

 

[Drone]

TOS- Spectre of the Gun, Errand of Mercy