Star Trek Shirts

[Michael]

Since I'm a huge fan of well-made Sci-Fi-Shirts in general and Trek shirts in particular, I wanted to ask all of you about your favorite Trek shirts. Do you acutally own some or don't you like letting everyone around you know about you being a fan?

Even though I'm an avid collector of shirts from "one-new-shirt-a-day"-websites like Teefury, RIPT or ShirtPunch, I don't actually own that many good Trek shirts. They are kind of rare, methinks. Here's a good one I bought off of Teefury a few months ago. (100 quatloos for everyone who can guess what the Latin words are saying.)



This shirt was cool as well.

My favourite Trek shirt, however, is this one. It's just so clever and well-made.

This is why I decided to actually make my own design and submit it to the sites I mentioned above. Maybe I'm lucky and one of my designs is actually chosen for print.

So here's my question: What kind of Trek shirts would you like to wear? Do you have any original and intelligent ideas that I might work into an illustration?

And while I'm at it, I'd also like to point to the work of a good friend of mine who actually managed to get his "Millenium Enterprise" design on RIPT. On Monday – and on Monday only – his shirt will be available on RIPT. Since I like his clever design, I hope you'll find the time to check it out.

 

[plynch]

I have an Andy Warhol -esque Spock t shirt I do wear.

 

[cblmc1296]

My favorite is the commemorative shirt I got from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum during the Star Trek 25th Anniversary exhibit in 1991...worn by my son in the pic below:

I also used to have one from a 20th Anniversary convention I attended in '86 but, sadly, as my mid-section got more and more Shatnerized, I grew out of it.

I also like any and all approximations of the TOS and TNG uniform shirts. I had some great ones by Donmoor in the '70s!

 

[plynch]

Nooo, don't bring up the Donmoor shirts again! Sigh.

 

[SilentP]

(100 quatloos for everyone who can guess what the Latin words are saying.)

"You cannot change the laws of physics"?

 

[cblmc1296]

Nooo, don't bring up the Donmoor shirts again! Sigh.

In best George Takei voice, "Oh my!". Now my curiosity is piqued. I'm not sure I've ever mentioned the D*****r shirts in this forum before. Is there some negative connotation associated with them? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[plynch]

Not you, just the subject. PAIINN! I threw mine out years ago and I wish I had it. Several other people have similar experiences, though someone here shared a great story about finding his or hers after decades. Search Donmoor, and I'm sure you'll find the threads. There are two on ebay currently btw, but for 75 bucks or so.

The Latin is very dark, but I see nemo ante, which suggests WNMHGB.

 

[cblmc1296]

Not you, just the subject. PAIINN! I threw mine out years ago and I wish I had it. Several other people have similar experiences, though someone here shared a great story about finding his or hers after decades...

Ah, yes. I understand. I'd love to have mine as well. BTW, the best story I've ever heard regarding that kind of thing was from John Cooley (from James Cawley's ST:Phase II) who, as an adult, bought his original gold Donmoor shirt on eBay 25 years after losing it. As I recall, it had his name on the tag or some such detail. Pretty wild!

I had a few of them, myself. Messed up my favorite one in a strange way at school - http://captainsblog1701.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/star-trek-uniform-horror-stories-phase-ii/

 

[Count Zero]

(100 quatloos for everyone who can guess what the Latin words are saying.)

"You cannot change the laws of physics"?

It says, "To where no-one has gone before." (I'm not sure that's correct Latin, though.)

 

[Michael]

I have an Andy Warhol -esque Spock t shirt I do wear.

That sounds like a cool design. Might be based upon this then, eh? Do you have a picture of the shirt?

My favorite is the commemorative shirt I got from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum during the Star Trek 25th Anniversary exhibit in 1991...worn by my son in the pic below:

That's a cool shirt! I like these technical drawings of the Enterprise.

It says, "To where no-one has gone before." (I'm not sure that's correct Latin, though.)

Yeah, neither am I. But that's what it's supposed to mean. So, the quatloos go to you.

And just to give another heads-up to my friend's design: His shirt will be available today (and only today) on RIPT.