Picard series uniform revealed (close-ups)

[Qonundrum]

https://trekmovie.com/2019/05/22/a-close-up-look-at-starfleet-uniforms-from-star-trek-picard/

Please visit article to see the costume design example.

Spoiler: Synopsis

Reused Voyager/DS9 outfits they aren't but this time there's a proper close-up sketched out...

Overall? They're growing on me as, given 90s Trek's overall progression, they fit in - after 20 years they got tired of the gray top tunic. I do like the opening between the collars and the new rank insignia is on a place Gene would approve of, at least for some of the wearers.

• The oval behind the delta is turned 90 degrees (or 25%)
• I'm pretty sure the delta's re-positioned off-center by maybe 2.5%
• Commbadge moved up maybe 2.5% as well
  
• The Delta (DSC edition) pretty much seals the whole "25% different clause, casualty, causality, clausality, it's all good!"
  
• The collar looks 25% larger.
• Removing the sharper Theiss-inspired angled for the shoulders and making them look squarer... maybe 25% off. Definitely an inversion of the comic's shoulder/collarbone piping with the bits that indent or pop out.

I agree with TrekMovie, the outfits do look plain. I thought the same thing when the Gen/DS9/VOY era costumes came out. I don't think anybody was expecting and wanting silly blue jumpsuits (no, third time is not the charm)... or one of the classy but showy 80s Kirk movies.

 

[weissmr]

I was a little surprised to see a uniform so close to the DS9/VOY days. However, it occurs to me that Picard is at the academy and these are starfleet academy uniforms.

I am really looking forward to the show!

 

[WarpFactorZ]

How is this any closer up than what we see in the video?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I was a little surprised to see a uniform so close to the DS9/VOY days. However, it occurs to me that Picard is at the academy and these are starfleet academy uniforms.

I am really looking forward to the show!

Would academy unis have department colors? I don't think they did in any past iterations.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Maybe they're actual officers, and it's Picard's perspective that Starfleet is made up of a buncha young whipper-snappers who need to get off his space lawn.

 

[The Wormhole]

Would academy unis have department colors? I don't think they did in any past iterations.

That's a loaded issue. When we first saw 24th century cadet uniforms was in Allegiance, where the Bolian girl was wearing a gold uniform. Then all cadets wore red uniforms, including ones who wore a different colour when they became officers, like Sito Jaxa and Nog. Then in Valiant we see colour coded cadet uniforms, though curiously enough one of them in that episode wearing gold was seen in Paradise Lost wearing red. The colour coded cadet uniforms seen in Valiant were also used throughout DS9's seventh season as well.

However, I am inclined to believe these are actual officer uniforms instead of cadet uniforms given the presence of officer's rank insignia.

 

[Shamrock Holmes]

However, I am inclined to believe these are actual officer uniforms instead of cadet uniforms given the presence of officer's rank insignia.

That was my takeway as well.

 

[Longinus]

That's a loaded issue. When we first saw 24th century cadet uniforms was in Allegiance, where the Bolian girl was wearing a gold uniform. Then all cadets wore red uniforms, including ones who wore a different colour when they became officers, like Sito Jaxa and Nog. Then in Valiant we see colour coded cadet uniforms, though curiously enough one of them in that episode wearing gold was seen in Paradise Lost wearing red. The colour coded cadet uniforms seen in Valiant were also used throughout DS9's seventh season as well.

However, I am inclined to believe these are actual officer uniforms instead of cadet uniforms given the presence of officer's rank insignia.

My theory is that cadets normally wear red, but if they are actually posted somewhere they wear the colour appropriate to their position. So a cadet in the academy would wear red, but when that same cadet is doing their internship on a starship as an assistant astrophysics officer they would wear blue.

 

[The Wormhole]

My theory is that cadets normally wear red, but if they are actually posted somewhere they wear the colour appropriate to their position. So a cadet in the academy would wear red, but when that same cadet is doing their internship on a starship as an assistant astrophysics officer they would wear blue.

That falls apart with Nog continuing to wear red while on DS9 or the Defiant as a cadet, only to immediately wear gold once he was commissioned as an officer.

 

[Longinus]

That falls apart with Nog continuing to wear red while on DS9 or the Defiant as a cadet, only to immediately wear gold once he was commissioned as an officer.

Damn. Well, that's still how it should work!

 

[pst]

never been a fan of the STO uniforms, but they look a hell of lot more intricate and well-designed than these picard show uniforms. let's hope they're just academy uniforms, as stated above.

 

[saladdays]

However, I am inclined to believe these are actual officer uniforms instead of cadet uniforms given the presence of officer's rank insignia.

Agreed, although I suppose it's also possible that officers stationed at the Academy wear uniforms different than others stationed elsewhere.

 

[Tosk]

That's a lot of maybe-ing to try and make them cadets. They have ranks pips, the location is Starfleet Headquarters (not the Academy) and they have multiple division colors. The only thing they have in common with cadet uniforms is the color being on the shoulders, and that's DS9/VOY as much as it is cadets.

I personally am glad to have some "simple" uniforms. I prefer not to have gold accenting and piping all over the place.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

That's a loaded issue. When we first saw 24th century cadet uniforms was in Allegiance, where the Bolian girl was wearing a gold uniform. Then all cadets wore red uniforms, including ones who wore a different colour when they became officers, like Sito Jaxa and Nog. Then in Valiant we see colour coded cadet uniforms, though curiously enough one of them in that episode wearing gold was seen in Paradise Lost wearing red. The colour coded cadet uniforms seen in Valiant were also used throughout DS9's seventh season as well.

However, I am inclined to believe these are actual officer uniforms instead of cadet uniforms given the presence of officer's rank insignia.

Cadet Haro was also not an actual cadet, but one of those Jay Leno-esque aliens. Easily explained as getting it wrong via whatever means they got their info.

 

[The Wormhole]

Cadet Haro was also not an actual cadet, but one of those Jay Leno-esque aliens. Easily explained as getting it wrong via whatever means they got their info.

Granted, but then there's the Valiant crew, plus cadets from DS9's seventh season.

 

[Infern0]

I just saw a video on one of "those" youtube channels where they said it proves that the CBS star trek shows are not canon because the uniforms here are 25% different from tng/ds9

I'm serious

 

[NCC-73515]

Cadet Haro was also not an actual cadet, but one of those Jay Leno-esque aliens. Easily explained as getting it wrong via whatever means they got their info.

Then Picard would have known that she's fake immediately, and he only realized that after she knew classified information that no cadet would know.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Regarding colors for cadets.

Maybe red is the entry level color you wear before putting the sorting hat in their second or third year when they specialize more.

 

[Dukhat]

The article clearly states that this art is just an extrapolation based on what was already seen in that CBS promo video and hidden camera pics. It’s not what the uniform and commbadge actually look like.

 

[The Wormhole]

Regarding colors for cadets.

Maybe red is the entry level color you wear before putting the sorting hat in their second or third year when they specialize more.

Except, again, Nog still wore red even in his second year when he was training to be an engineer.