Gersha Phillips on the Enterprise Uniforms

[Tuskin38]

http://trekcore.com/blog/2019/02/gersha-phillips-star-trek-discovery-enterprise-uniforms/

 

[pst]

this is interesting, i’d love to see sketches of the abandoned versions using the discovery color coding.

key takeaway: “Eventually, in our Disco timeline, everybody would end up wearing those uniforms.”

 

[Tuskin38]

This is an interesting bit.. they completely forgot the ranks for the final version of the uniform and had to CG them in for some scenes in the first episode..

The only thing that we didn’t actually think about was rank at the time, because in [Discovery[, the rank was done with pips on the badges. So, when we first shot the first few days of Enterprise uniforms, we forgot to put rank on.

I forgot who told us, I think it was marketing, actually, saw that we hadn’t any indication of rank on our uniform — so me and my team, we spent like a night of trying to figure out how we were going to add rank bars on their uniforms.

So that was an interesting journey, and it all happened during one night, so we had to figure that out… Then they had to go back and CGI all the stripes on the days that we didn’t do it.

 

[Spectre Of The Fun]

That was a good read at both Trekcore and Comicbook.

My favorite extra on the season one blu-ray was on the costume design with Ms Phillips.

I have no complaints about the costume design or for that matter the art direction, props and visuals on the show. Well except no armor and helmets for security guards but only TMP got that right. Lack of body armor on security is a general Trek pet peeve of mine. Disco is consistent with TOS.