Starfleet uniforms?

[The Wormhole]

This is slightly off-topic but what really annoyed me about the GEN uniforms is that the material, cut, and design all looked horrible on the big screen. They worked on television but on the big-screen, the magic was gone and it pulled me out of the story...it looked like they lost their regular costumes and had to buy cheap replacements from a Trekkie at a convention.

This was reasons 1-16 why they went with the other design.

They're alright but the problem for me wasn't the TNG series uniforms design - just how they looked on the different screen. They should have done some screen tests and remade them with different material. The DS9 series uniforms were even worse given they were mostly black and that material in black looked really poor on screen.

The purplish tunic also looked terrible. And the overall tailoring of the jumpsuits just was poor, so you get Patrick Stewart with that silly belt contraption trying to make the outfit look more formfitting.

I'm glad they redid the uniforms in the next picture...they should have done so off the bat, even if the series uniforms looked fine on the big screen. But I'm not at all happy with what they came up with...gray and black carpet on dim-colored polyester.

New uniforms were designed for Generations, even fabricated for the cast, but were abandoned at literally the last minute, forcing them to use the series uniforms. However, since it was a movie, they wanted a different look from the TV series, so the DS9 uniforms were brought in. Only Partick Stewart and Brent Spiner had DS9 uniforms tailored for them, however. Jonathan Frakes wore Avery Brooks's costume, and LeVar Burton wore Colm Meaney's. There's weren't any DS9 uniforms to fit Dron, Sirtis, or McFadden which is why they only wear the TNG uniforms in the movie.

 

[Guardian452]

The Uniform on star trek that seemed odd to me was the guys in skirts design of uniform that appeared a couple of times early in TNG

 

[FormerLurker]

This is slightly off-topic but what really annoyed me about the GEN uniforms is that the material, cut, and design all looked horrible on the big screen. They worked on television but on the big-screen, the magic was gone and it pulled me out of the story...it looked like they lost their regular costumes and had to buy cheap replacements from a Trekkie at a convention.

This was reasons 1-16 why they went with the other design.

They're alright but the problem for me wasn't the TNG series uniforms design - just how they looked on the different screen. They should have done some screen tests and remade them with different material. The DS9 series uniforms were even worse given they were mostly black and that material in black looked really poor on screen.

The purplish tunic also looked terrible. And the overall tailoring of the jumpsuits just was poor, so you get Patrick Stewart with that silly belt contraption trying to make the outfit look more formfitting.

I'm glad they redid the uniforms in the next picture...they should have done so off the bat, even if the series uniforms looked fine on the big screen. But I'm not at all happy with what they came up with...gray and black carpet on dim-colored polyester.

I was referring to the DS9/VOY uniforms, which looked like crap on the big screen. The TNG series uniforms looked really good. But Berman wanted to get rid of those, because GR had signed off on them.

 

[Archaeologist]

The Uniform on star trek that seemed odd to me was the guys in skirts design of uniform that appeared a couple of times early in TNG

Oh God, I found that revolting. Terrible uniform design, there.

 

[FormerLurker]

Yeah, the men's skants sucked. They would have looked better with longer sleeves, in both gender variants.

 

[Archaeologist]

Perhaps a little better with long sleeves, but they would still look bad nevertheless, on men.

 

[Subcommander R.]

Yes, I know, they were lost, but they could still have gotten the new uniforms, like when they made contact with Starfleet, it couldn't have been too much for Starfleet to transmit the replicator patterns of the new uniforms, could it?

As a Romulan I fully acknowledge that your Federation does idiotic things. But even they wouldn't demand a ship stranded so far away with no chance of resupply switch to a new uniform pattern.

 

[Arpy]

Demand? No, but a ship with as little difficulty repairing even the most severe damage wouldn't have any problem replicating new uniforms that might help them feel connected to the rest of the fleet.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Uniform on star trek that seemed odd to me was the guys in skirts design of uniform that appeared a couple of times early in TNG

Oh God, I found that revolting. Terrible uniform design, there.

White Sox fans will know what you mean by that. Linky

 

[Orcus]

The Uniform on star trek that seemed odd to me was the guys in skirts design of uniform that appeared a couple of times early in TNG

Oh God, I found that revolting. Terrible uniform design, there.

White Sox fans will know what you mean by that. Linky

I don't know which is more tragic: the shorts or the shirt collar design...

 

[F. King Daniel]

Yes, I know, they were lost, but they could still have gotten the new uniforms, like when they made contact with Starfleet, it couldn't have been too much for Starfleet to transmit the replicator patterns of the new uniforms, could it?

As a Romulan I fully acknowledge that your Federation does idiotic things. But even they wouldn't demand a ship stranded so far away with no chance of resupply switch to a new uniform pattern.

FWIW, the TNG/DS9 Romulan bowl cut/shoulder pads look is the worst in all of Star Trek's history.

 

[Archaeologist]

OK, I personally disliked that look as well. The shoulder pads, just look at the shoulder pads...

 

[Capt_Pickirk]

Ugh, the shoulder pads. Shield your eyes! shield your eyes!

 

[scotpens]

^ Looks like 24th-century Romulans are big fans of the 1980s power-suit look. Actually, that jacket is quite practical. You can keep your cellphone, laptop, pens and makeup kit in those shoulders!

 

[Nerys Myk]

Nah, they just like the Talking Heads.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Carolyn Seymour still looks hot, no matter what the uniform.

 

[T'Girl]

^ Carolyn Seymour still looks hot, no matter what the uniform.

She would look a lot more attractive without that oversized icicle up her ass.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ As her Romulan characters go, Toreth definitely had more emotional range than Taris did, IMHO.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Ugh, the shoulder pads. Shield your eyes! shield your eyes!

Is that a clip from TNG or from Dynasty!?

 

[Archaeologist]

^ Looks like 24th-century Romulans are big fans of the 1980s power-suit look. Actually, that jacket is quite practical. You can keep your cellphone, laptop, pens and makeup kit in those shoulders!

Alright, looks like I wasn't the only one who thought of the boxy 1980s suit look... Not that all '80s suits looked boxy, of course.