The New Klingons

[Tuskin38]

It looks very Klingon to me, very martial

 

[Refuge]

Interesting seeing the vote ratio. The 'I did not like them' has really risen.

 

[Mach5]

Interesting seeing the vote ratio. The 'I did not like them' has really risen.

47.1% is a decent approval rating.

 

[dahj]

very marital

This is what Klingon marital garb should look like according to canon:

 

[Tuskin38]

This is what Klingon marital garb should look like according to canon:

Well that is a wedding outfit not military gear lol

 

[dahj]

Well that is a wedding outfit not military gear lol

Yep. (You had a typo in that previous post )

 

[cultcross]

Whoosh!

 

[Mach5]

Well that is a wedding outfit not military gear lol

You did say "marital".

 

[Tuskin38]

Yep. (You had a typo in that previous post )

Oh, ohhh lmao.

I'm on my phone

Fixed it

 

[RAMA]

It's awesome, elegant, expensive looking. Everything the old Klingon uniforms weren't. You've lost any trek production cred. Go sit in the brig.

If by 'most striking' you mean 'shockingly bad', I agree. That is utter trash. It looks like bad cosplay. It's some sort of foam and cloth shit spray painted silver. Truly embarrassing.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

That particular costume ≠ striking, awesome, elegant, expensive looking, best Klingon uniform.

But it's not the worst also, so I'll give you that.

 

[RAMA]

That particular costume ≠ striking, awesome, elegant, expensive looking, best Klingon uniform.

But it's not the worst also, so I'll give you that.

thankfully you're not working on the show.

 

[Longinus]

It's awesome, elegant, expensive looking. Everything the old Klingon uniforms weren't. You've lost any trek production cred. Go sit in the brig.

Get new glasses.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

thankfully you're not working on the show.

And that's my gripe. I have no problem to lie through my teeth and say they look amazing if they pay me.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Their look is subjective. To me, I think the Klingon costumes are really well done! Certainly a step up from spray painting football and hockey goalie pads black and wearing a giant belt around your waist!

 

[Tuskin38]

What KirkusOveractus said. Eye of the beholder and all that.

 

[Rahul]

It's a very well execution (for a tv-budget) of a very scrappy idea.

 

[Roald]

I agree with RAMA, this is without a doubt the best designed Klingon costume ever..! It kind of frustrates me that so many here are so negative towards the design decisions... Sometimes, I just hope the people working on DSC aren't looking into what is said on TrekBBS, Trekmovie and other forums, 'cause I fear it would de-motivatie them to pursue their vision.... come on guys, I'm not saying you shouldn't be critical and of course everyone has their own taste, but to call these costumes 'bad cosplay' or anything, that is not fair to the people working so hard to give us new Trek..

 

[KirkusOveractus]

It's a very well execution (for a tv-budget) of a very scrappy idea.

I'm looking at them from the evolution of how Klingons looked, from the bubble wrap belt buckles and gold lame weave sashes of TOS, through the movies and TNG era.

From a costuming and detail aspect, these are very well done, IMO. From reading some sites, some of the weaponry the Klingons use as well as parts of their costumes were 3D printed, which is amazing.

 

[Mudd]

Well, they were real in the sense they had physical existence, but other than that, they were as fake as Vreenak's memory stick. The TMP Klingon costumes which became the TNG standard were made of faux leather, vinyl, dyed surgical tubing and liquid plastic painted metallic. In ST6 they even used cut up bits of car upholstery to save money. This new design looks like everything is custom designed and made, which at the very least is a step up in production values, whether or not one likes the outcome.

I never looked at the old Klingons and thought "oh, they're supposed to be wearing metal armor." Clearly they wore "leather" jerkins and I wondered whether that was real leather or vinyl. The probable answer is "on TMP, leather, after that vinyl." Fletcher enjoyed his TMP budget.

If by 'most striking' you mean 'shockingly bad', I agree. That is utter trash. It looks like bad cosplay. It's some sort of foam and cloth shit spray painted silver. Truly embarrassing.

Well, the example provided there only looks a thousand times or so more plausible than the Klingon costuming we're used to on Trek.

The Cardassian outfits were a bit more believable as armor than the Klingons - if we ever see any Cardassians, it's fun to imagine how much farther the new designers can take them.