Hairstyles?
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The thing about hairstyles is that they're always changing. Late-90's/early-00's hairstyles looked more like 50's/early-60's hairstyles. Towards the end of the 90's hair on most guys was the shortest it had been since pre-Beatles.
I think current 2007 hairstyles, which aren't as short as above, would actually work in the TOS setting.
I think current 2007 hairstyles, which aren't as short as above, would actually work in the TOS setting.
Modern hairstyles with pointed sideburns would work. A few chicks with beehives would be cool, as long as they're played by leggy pin-up models with huge cans. 
You have to make the hair look similar to the styles worn today. Who knows what hair will look like in 2265, and if you attempted to guess, the result would be cheesey, I'm sure.
Kirk's 1966 haircut would be pretty stylish today. So would Dr. McCoy's. The 1960's Scotty and Chekov would definitely need a makeover, though. The women's beehives just won't do in a movie made today. That, too, would end up looking like someone tried too hard to look futuristic. And then there's Spock...Someone should tell him that bangs never look good on a man (unless you're Prince Valiant). But I suppose Spock would not be Spock without the bangs.
Kirk's 1966 haircut would be pretty stylish today. So would Dr. McCoy's. The 1960's Scotty and Chekov would definitely need a makeover, though. The women's beehives just won't do in a movie made today. That, too, would end up looking like someone tried too hard to look futuristic. And then there's Spock...Someone should tell him that bangs never look good on a man (unless you're Prince Valiant). But I suppose Spock would not be Spock without the bangs.
Making them look like today's styles will date it much faster than basing them on retro styles. Look at the TOS movies as a perfect example of that, though admitted the 80s have aged much worse than other decades. A combination of modern and early 20th century should offer enough of a unique flair to not look like they're straight out of a Sears catalog. This is mostly an issue with women's hair anyways, it isn't like men's styles have changed all that much other than getting a little longer/little shorter (ignoring subculture 'styles' of course).
A lot of today's hairstyles are reminiscent of the late 60s/ early 70s. If my hair wasn't so wild and unkempt, it would be along the lines of Bones' hairdo in TOS so, yeah most modern styles would probably fit. And I'm still crossing my fingers for the beehives. I just think chicks with beehives are fucking hot. Check out a picture of Amy Winehouse for a sense of the possibilities.
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Watch movies from the mid-1930' through the 1960's. For the most part, the men's hairstyles from those films are very similar to what is being worn today (heck, even the men's suits are just about the same). Today's hairstyles aren't exclusive to the early 21st century -- today's hair could be considered 'classic'. I don't think a 2007 hairstyle used in a film would look any more dated later than say Cary Grant's hair looks in films from the 1930's, 40's, and 50's. Maybe men in movies were a little more well-coiffed during that time, but the style don't jump at at you as being 50 or 60 years old.
Granted, there were awlfully dated-looking hairstyles for about the 15 or so years from the late-1970's through the early 1990's, but I contend that we are back to the "classic" style today. Too bad the TOS films were made during that period of non-classic styles, and thus look slightly dated.
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Excatly --
Watch movies from the mid-1930' through the 1960's. For the most part, the men's hairstyles from those films are very similar to what is being worn today (heck, even the men's suits are just about the same). Today's hairstyles aren't exclusive to the early 21st century -- today's hair could be considered 'classic'. I don't think a 2007 hairstyle used in a film would look any more dated later than say Cary Grant's hair looks in films from the 1930's, 40's, and 50's. Maybe men in movies were a little more well-coiffed during that time, but the style don't jump at at you as being 50 or 60 years old.
Granted, there were awlfully dated-looking hairstyles for about the 15 or so years from the late-1970's through the early 1990's, but I contend that we are back to the "classic" style today. Too bad the TOS films were made during that period of non-classic styles, and thus look slightly dated.
What'll the Klingons' hair look like?
The whole issue of aesthetics is far from frivolous. TOS has a certain look that is an innate part of its mystique and the hair is part of the look. How much of that can be transferred to the new film without seeing hilarious? How much can be lost before it's not TOS anymore?
Nothing looked more dated than the hairstyles of the DS9 crew in "Trials and Tribbleations". Undoubtedly, they played it that way. They looked more 1960s (think Bashir and O'Brien) than the real TOS characters did.
Just get rid of the Brylcream and keep the pointed sideburns (noting that even during the run of TOS the length of the sideburns changed as the length of sideburns did during the mid- to late-1960s -- you can tell the season of an episode just by the length of Kirk's sideburns).
Unless they mess with the sideburns, I don't think hair will be too big an issue.
But, Chekov NEEDS a mop-top wig. Sorry. Gotta have it.
Just get rid of the Brylcream and keep the pointed sideburns (noting that even during the run of TOS the length of the sideburns changed as the length of sideburns did during the mid- to late-1960s -- you can tell the season of an episode just by the length of Kirk's sideburns).
Unless they mess with the sideburns, I don't think hair will be too big an issue.
But, Chekov NEEDS a mop-top wig. Sorry. Gotta have it.
They can change anything and everything about the hairstyles for all I care about.
Well, I have pretty much had the same hairstyle for 15 years or so, with variations in length. I guess I don't feel the need to change (unlike Kirk who went from a real slick hairdo to a Mike Brady semi-fro).
I guess as long as they have pointy sideburns, that's a Trek style.
I guess as long as they have pointy sideburns, that's a Trek style.
Men's "Mainstream" hairstyles haven't changed in any appreciable way since men started bathing daily. You can go back WELL before the 1960s and most "mainstream" hair on men would look perfectly normal today.
For that matter, most "normal" hair seen on women in earlier times is also not all that inconsistent with that which we'll see today. It's just been more common, historically, for women to fuss about their appearance.
The big problem is that we're used to associating "actor/model" styles with whatever was common in a particular period. But most of the time, that sort of hair was so difficult to maintain, "average" people didn't really get into it.
As people have had more leisure time, people have wasted more and more time screwing around with funky high-maintenance non-useful appearance-related bullshit.
We assume that everyone in pre-revolution France wore pasty makeup and powdered wigs. It was only the dilletant nobility, though.
We assume that all women in the early to mid 60s wore huge hair that would take six hours and 20 gallons of hairspray. But reality is that most women simply couldn't AFFORD to do that. Only the idle rich.
In the late 70s, there were more women who spent 4+ hours a day putting on their Farrah Faucet Big Hair.
I'm personally happy that women today have started going more natural and soft again. I find that much more appealing, personally... but not just for appearance's sake, also because I find narcissistic behavior to be repulsive.
Evidently, by the time of TOS, either they've just invented "instant Big Hair devices... a beehive in just seconds!" or women in that future are once again prone to wasting dozens of hours every week primping over trivia that doesn't make 'em any more attractive.
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