Favorite costumes?

[ZapBrannigan]

In the Union army in the US Civil War, the higher the rank the more likely someone would be to have a full beard, at least in camp. On the march everyone might have to do without shaving for days, weeks, or months. But almost every single general was photgraphed with a full beard, even in studio portraits where they had chances to shave if they wanted.

Lower ranking officers and enlisted men were more likely to display only partial facial hair.

In the British army around 1900 there were regulations about facial hair. Enlisted men (except for really young ones) were required to grow mustaches.

I presume officers were free to grow as much or as little facial hair as they wanted, which would mean that some officers had full beards.

So maybe at the time of "Errand of Mercy" facial hair was a sign of rank in the Klingon forces. So maybe the enlisted mean were shaven and only some officers were allowed to grow beards.

In one-hour drama world, I've seen a hospital show make a big point of how doctors in training wear short white coats, while the long coats are reserved for their bosses, the attending physicians. And there's a current cop show making hay out of rookies having to wear long-sleeved uniforms, while the short sleeve version is a mark of status for fully-trained cops who've made the cut. The upper echelons in a hierarchy often figure out ways to ensure a display of status.

 

[J.T.B.]

As for command wraps, I don't like the S1, b/c the braid starts outof nowhere on each shoulder. The wide ends that just stop look weird.to me.

Tne short sleeve Phase 2 needs some pizzaz. McCoy had a shortsleeve b/c of surgical scrub needs. Kirk's should look more polo imho.

Speaking of both, I have wondered if the S1 wraparound collar rank might have been useful for a TOS short-sleeve version.

 

[Phaser Two]

Speaking of both, I have wondered if the S1 wraparound collar rank might have been useful for a TOS short-sleeve version.


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I absolutely love this.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I always found it strange, especially in Errand of Mercy the lack of beards on the Klingon soldiers marching through the streets of Organia!

Considering that "Errand of Mercy" was the Klingons' very first appearance, maybe you should find their beards in all the other episodes strange.

So maybe at the time of "Errand of Mercy" facial hair was a sign of rank in the Klingon forces. So maybe the enlisted mean were shaven and only some officers were allowed to grow beards.

That reminds me a bit of John Ford's extrapolation in his novel The Final Reflection that all Klingons of a certain rank add a "K" to the front of their names. So the main character Vrenn became Krenn over the course of the book.

 

[johnnybear]

They began to look a lot more Asiatic too in later episodes! Kor, Krell and Kang were the three gravy faced Klingons who everyone seems to remember while Kras and Koloth and his crew were of the lighter variety!
JB

 

[Phaser Two]

Kras

And LLLI-quids for the SICK??

 

[FormerLurker]

I thought it was "POW-durrs and LI-Quids for the SICK?"

 

[Phaser Two]

I thought it was "POW-durrs and LI-Quids for the SICK?"

I absolutely love that guy. What a terrific performance.

 

[johnnybear]

Whatever it was it sure as hell was betray your newly found allies at every opportunity!
JB

 

[Maurice]

She really rocked those funky gold headphones.

It's a good thing STVI had enough of a budget to put ears on Ambassador Nanclus.

Kor

They had the budget. STV cost more than STVI.

 

[FormerLurker]

She really rocked those funky gold headphones.

It's a good thing STVI had enough of a budget to put ears on Ambassador Nanclus.

Kor

They had the budget. STV cost more than STVI.

Nanclus wouldn't have looked half as good in that headdress, though.

 

[M'Sharak]

I didn’t discover until just recently that the Klingon belt buckles were made from bubble wrap/plastic packaging. That was symptomatic of TOS’ low budget.

TOS, at the time that episode was made, had one of the largest production budgets of any show then on the air.

Also, though it would be ubiquitous within ten years, bubble wrap then would still have been a novelty.

Commercial customers might have found bubble wrap used in shipping containers to cushion delicate (and very expensive) items such as mainframe components purchased or leased from IBM, but most average consumers watching television in 1967 had never seen any and probably weren't aware it existed.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Commercial customers might have found bubble wrap used in shipping containers to cushion delicate (and very expensive) items such as mainframe components purchased or leased from IBM, but most average consumers watching television in 1967 had never seen any and probably weren't aware it existed.

That reminds me of the time George Reeves appeared as Superman on I Love Lucy. One of his feats of strength was to single-handedly push a piano aside. It was secretly on caster wheels, a convenience the general public was not yet familiar with.

But the Klingon belt buckles were a detail the viewing public wasn't going to see clearly, on the old CRT TV sets we were watching. At most, the buckles would look unlike anything you could find at the store, without us having a sharp view of what they did look like. And I'd say that was the idea.

 

[Mres_was_framed!]

I like the use of the mission patches from other ships.