Uniforms
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Complain? Why would you complain when your uniform is already awesome?!
Erhm, we all love ST, and we go to great lengths to excuse any detectable flaw; those uniforms may be adored, iconic and loved, but they surely weren't beautifully made or designed, especially those from the Cage...
RIGHT ABOUT NOW I'M ANGRIER THAN A GORN WHO JUST FELL DOWN A MOUNTAIN
Sorry Gorn, maybe we can sort it out?!
I came in peace 
. Anyway I think that one thing is our love for Star Trek, and another is not seeing the papier-mâché used in many sets and think they were believable looking rocks. Fortunately, low budget productions are over...
Yeah, I think we can agree on the papier-mache!
I prefer creativity over slavish adherence to canon. If they come up with a cool, new uniform but it looks nothing like TOS or The Cage, I really don't care. I just hope it looks good.
Very eloquent. I hope that in this golden era for the tv series, they will manage to pull something interesting. In the end, we all loved ST despite the papier-mâché, and because of the stories and how they were written.
I may only speak for myself, but if I could I'd put into oblivion the whole Abramesque production. Sorry I had to say it.
Maybe they'll use the uniforms from Star Trek: The Motion Picture! I mean, they were awesome looking and canon!
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I will defend Kirk's TMP Admiral uniform to the death.Maybe they'll use the uniforms from Star Trek: The Motion Picture! I mean, they were awesome looking and canon!
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I thought Enterprise did a pretty good job in making them look like functional uniforms.
I agree. I love the ENT uniforms (I even use them in STO). I wouldn't mind them thinking outside the box if they came up with something striking like that.
Agreed.
As an aside, in the novels set after the founding of the Federation (Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the Federation), author Christopher L. Bennett uses a uniform that is an amalgam of all four founding species, with a touch of USS Kelvin: https://christopherlbennett.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/earlystarfleetuniform1.jp
^ My favourite aspect is that it's four department colors. I ever liked the engineering and security sharing shirts.
Source: https://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/home-page/star-trek-fiction/rotf-a-choice-of-futures/
Wait, did I miss something? Where was this established? I thought it was only idle speculation.
That's correct. The story has not been officially clarified. Speculation right now.
Am I the only one who thinks a new uniform design would actually be more believable in context with canon? Canonically the TOS-movie era uniforms were in use for the longest period of time (at least up until 20ish years before TNG based on Deanna's dad wearing one) and they were completely different. It seems the rainbow jumpsuit style was only used for the decade or so around TOS, then fell out of favor for a century until it was revived in the TNG era which again only lasted for a few decades before it reverted back to a predominately-single-color two-piece uniform again. It's just not a popular design.
Plus, we know that each ship was already using individual badges in the ENT to TOS era. It would not be much of a stretch to retcon that the whole TOS-style itself was limited to certain ships or classes of ship.
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