The badges of TAS

[blssdwlf]

Also established in Spock's Brain:

<Kirk reaches behind his waist and under his shirt bottom, possibly touching something, then gives an oral command.>
KIRK: Suit temperatures to seventy two.​

Apparently, Kirk prefers to use Fahrenheit or maybe it's a percent of the clothes' capabilities to heat up. Also, does this temperature control apply to pants, boots, and even women's pantyhose? That xenylon (alien-nylon?) is good stuff.

I checked my DVD and the subtitles has it as "Suit temperatures are seventy two" and listening to Kirk speak it doesn't sound like says "to". But it is a neat observation that they maybe setting something on their belt or suit.

 

[Nerys Myk]

She wears command gold and a sciences badge in "The Corbomite Maneuver

I’ve always wondered why the “gold skirt” costume looks ill fitting no matter who’s in it.

 

[drt]

I’ve always wondered why the “gold skirt” costume looks ill fitting no matter who’s in it.

I wonder if they originally they just made a few in different sizes to be used by dayplayers, so never undertook the expense of actually fitting them to individual actresses.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

I’ve always wondered why the “gold skirt” costume looks ill fitting no matter who’s in it.

Naomi Pollack didn't look bad:
https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/3x17hd/thatwhichsurviveshd0248.jpg

 

[Mres_was_framed!]

In TMP, a person's position is shown through a combination of the color of their uniform and the color of their mission patch and epaulets. Rather than consider these "errors," it seems that, especially with the pilots, TOS/TAS has a similar system that combines a shirt color with a patch.

A quick list for comparison of the top of my head and not meant to be exhaustive:

TMP
Shirt Colors
4. Red/Brown
3. Blue
2. Gold-matches "pilot" tan below
1a. Yellow (seen only in Decker's publicity photo as far as I can recall.)
1.White

Patches
5. Blue
4. Green
3. Red
2. Orange
1a. Yellow
1. White

TOS

Shirt Colors
4. red
3. blue
2. "pilot" tan
1. green/gold

Patches
5.C
4. Red Cross
3. Spiral
2. Planet
1. "Command" Star

Also established in Spock's Brain:

<Kirk reaches behind his waist and under his shirt bottom, possibly touching something, then gives an oral command.>
KIRK: Suit temperatures to seventy two.​

Apparently, Kirk prefers to use Fahrenheit or maybe it's a percent of the clothes' capabilities to heat up. Also, does this temperature control apply to pants, boots, and even women's pantyhose? That xenylon (alien-nylon?) is good stuff.

This is the only appearance of the "Life Support Belts" from TAS, they just did not add the glowing outline for the live action appearance.

 

[fireproof78]

This is the only appearance of the "Life Support Belts" from TAS, they just did not add the glowing outline for the live action appearance.

One of the best TAS inventions.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

One of the best TAS inventions.

It was, except it wasn't even a TAS invention. From https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Life_support_belt:

Although used exclusively in TAS, the life support belt was invented during the run of Star Trek: The Original Series. Judy Burns, co-writer of "The Tholian Web", thought of using battery-powered "force field belts" in that episode, but the series' producers decided to feature EV suits instead. "They felt strongly that if they started something like a force field belt," explained Burns, "it might have ramifications down the line on other stories. I was a novice in those days, but today I probably would have countered that it was a prototype model that had been given to us this one time. In 25 years, we would get it back again." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, 3rd ed., p. 72)​

 

[ReddishAlert]

I just noticed the other day that at the beginning of The Enemy Within Kirk doesn’t have his insignia badge on at all.

Because I hadn’t seen it in a long time I thought it was going to be relevant to the plot for a minute

 

[fireproof78]

It was, except it wasn't even a TAS invention. From https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Life_support_belt:

Although used exclusively in TAS, the life support belt was invented during the run of Star Trek: The Original Series. Judy Burns, co-writer of "The Tholian Web", thought of using battery-powered "force field belts" in that episode, but the series' producers decided to feature EV suits instead. "They felt strongly that if they started something like a force field belt," explained Burns, "it might have ramifications down the line on other stories. I was a novice in those days, but today I probably would have countered that it was a prototype model that had been given to us this one time. In 25 years, we would get it back again." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, 3rd ed., p. 72)​

On screen presentation then.

But, yeah, missed opportunity in my opinion.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

On screen presentation then.

But, yeah, missed opportunity in my opinion.

Yes. Personal force fields, while not entirely unheard of in Trek, are a completely believable development. They wouldn't really impact plot, anymore than say personal body armor did in Black Hawk Down, as in, not really at all.

Even though they botched the animation with Scotty's sleeve braid, that scene in Beyond the Farthest Star was very dramatic, when it was only the force field of his life support belt holding up the weight of the core hatch.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I guess the thought is that it's yet another thing to ask, "gee, they already had ___, why didn't they use that this time?" Only to inspire bend-over-backwards defenses of why they didn't use it (wouldn't work because science, not available at the moment, so and so forgot to use it, etc)

Trek has so many of those already, one more hardly matters.