Uniforms?

[James Wright]

In some TNG episodes when Picard, Jack Crusher & thw crew of the Enterprise-C were shown they were wearing the movie era uniform minus the turtleneck shirt, what was the reason for this change?

JDW

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Budget. This variation was introduced in "Yesterday's Enterprise," and the differences - no shirt or belt - were introduced in order to recycle the movie wardrobe while signifying an era between the TOS-based films and the 24th century.

 

[Good Will Riker]

Not enough undershirts available, and it is implied those TWOK-uniforms were used by Starfleet from sometime between the timeline of TMP-TWOK all the way to the timeline between Wesley Crusher's birth ("Family") and prior to Jack Crusher's death ("Violations").

 

[James Wright]

Didn't they have complete uniforms in storage somewhere?

JDW

 

[davejames]

While it bugged me at the time, now I think they made the right choice to leave them off. Those thick ribbed collars would have made the uniforms look a little TOO 1980s.

 

[Ro_Laren]

Hahaha... I never even noticed that they weren't wearing the turtlenecks. What if Starfleet had a small variety of uniforms that could be worn, just like the current US armed forces?? Perhaps they could be worn with or without the turtlenecks???

 

[SciFi75]

I understood that the creators had to work with a budget but those uniforms never looked right without the turtlenecks. I think that the turtleneck could have been used. Just take a look at the current US military uniform. A lot of the current officers uniforms have largely been unchanged for the last fifty years.

 

[Kirby]

Didn't Tapestry show the uniforms with some sort of undershirt? kind of like the DS9/VOY uniforms.

 

[Tomalak]

Yeah, it looked like a t-shirt.

 

[Ro_Laren]

^ Now I have to rewatch Tapestry. Great episode!