Something Weird I Noticed About Mission's End

[mbruno]

I flipped through the TPB of Mission's End when I saw at my local Borders and I noticed something strange. For some reason Uhura was in a gold uniform instead of a red unform like she was in the show. Was this just a coloring mistake or was I just looking at the wrong character or something?

 

[KRAD]

Uhura wore gold in the first filmed episode of the first season, "The Corbomite Maneuver." They put her in red after that. So the flashback portions of Missions End would have her in gold.

(Actually, the flashbacks take place around the same time as "Where No Man Has Gone Before," which had no red uniforms at all....)

 

[mbruno]

Uhura wore gold in the first filmed episode of the first season, "The Corbomite Maneuver." They put her in red after that. So the flashback portions of Missions End would have her in gold.

(Actually, the flashbacks take place around the same time as "Where No Man Has Gone Before," which had no red uniforms at all....)

Ah, ok, I didn't realize that those were flashbacks, though I knew about Uhura being in a gold uniform in "The Corbomite Maneuver". I'm going to have to dig out my VHS tape of that episode and watch it again.

 

[8of5]

(Actually, the flashbacks take place around the same time as "Where No Man Has Gone Before," which had no red uniforms at all....)

On screen at least, John Byrne's Crew miniseries gives us a red version of that uniform for the engineering personnel on April's Enterprise.

 

[Stevil2001]

Why, though, I wonder? There is a three-color uniform system in "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (despite what Mike Okuda claims in text commentaries); Scotty and Kelso and such wear a khaki color that is clearly distinct from command gold.

 

[Christopher]

It's more of a salmon color, a pinkish-brown. Khaki is greenish-brown.

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x03hd/wherenomanhasgonebeforehd018.jpg

"The Cage" used the same three colors:

http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/0x00/thecage070.jpg

However, if we're talking about April's Enterprise, that would come before "The Cage." There could've been a different color scheme in use at the time. (Apparently the 2233 uniforms as seen on the Kelvin came in at least two colors, blue and mustard, with command officers in blue. I found one screencap that seems to show a red uniform, but it's hard to be certain since the person wearing it is illuminated by a red light.)

 

[PaulSimpson]

^ If I remember rightly, in the designs that we ran in the mag (and are reprinted in the Art of the Film) there were some red uniforms designed for the Kelvin, but I wouldn't swear to it.

 

[Christopher]

^I just glanced through the production-art inserts in the last couple of issues and couldn't find any Kelvin uniforms.

 

[Stevil2001]

The concept sketched for Kelvin uniforms in The Art of the Film feature a man in blue and a woman in gray.