Poll What do you think of the Starfleet uniforms in Star Trek: Picard?
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Better look at the mid 2380s uniform
These unforms should have been the TNG third season redesign! The design and the materials fit well together.
While arguably they were "junior Admiral" rather than Commodore, however given textual references in the second episode one of them appeared in to Commodores (and Commodore being in use as little as a decade earlier), it seems likely that either they should have been Commodores, or they are grade equivalent to Commodores but even the title of Admiral due to being a HQ billet rather than a field command.
Also, I'm increasingly annoyed at the assertion that Starfleet must use the clumsy, US-centric Rear Admiral Lower Half, when other options exist in the RW and in licensed media for the 'one-star' rank even if it is some form of Admiral.
Yeah, that one is absolutely atrocious. Sound like a result of some sort of horrible transporter accident. Never mentioned on the screen though, right?
Absolutely correct.
The only time the rank of Rear Admiral (never mind Lower Half) was actually stated onscreen were for Rear Admiral (ret'd) Satie -- in civilian clothing -- and Rear Admiral Bennet, JAG who incorrectly wore the 'four-pip' insignia of a full or possibly Fleet Admiral (admitted by one of the staff of the episode). The fact that no further clarification is used in either case implicited contract the idea that their could be two different flavours of Rear Admiral, particularLy as we now know that the two junior flag ranks were Commodore and Rear Admiral in every era before or since (ENT, TOS/TMP, MM, PIC (which implies TNG 3+)
Bizarrely they look like bad homemade USS Kelvin uniforms now
The EMH looking like he is about to tell kids to get off his lawn
Captain Robau, keeping it tight and looking like a tall glass of water.
While I am eternally grateful that the potential-future uniforms seen in "All Good Things...", "The Visitor" and "Endgame" were thrown into a dumpster fire to never be used on-screen for PIC, I am not exactly loving the new uniform designs that they've revealed. If you took a quick glance and didn't pay attention to anything, you'd think they were minor updates to the VOY uniforms. Upon further inspection, they're obviously different, though there are some similarities. And the costume designer did lift a few ideas from those horrendous earlier future uniforms, but moving the rank insignia and creating a communicator that looks similar. I just find the design to be, overall, a step backwards. But more bothersome than that, they are ill-fitting. They seem very poorly constructed and aren't tailored to the actors we've seen wearing them. The construction quality just looks cheap and rushed. Even the re-created TNG and FC uniforms that we've seen Picard and Data wearing in the dream sequences look a little "off."
Kirk was a Rear Admiral in TMP and TWOK right?
Not specifically stated -- except possibly in Bob Fletcher's notes -- but given that we know that Rear Admirals do exist and the "one broad, one medium" insignia is generally given that pattern internationally (certianly in the US and Commonwealth), it's a reasonable assumption given that the only common used equivalent -- Counter Admiral -- is certainly not in use.
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Better look at the mid 2380s uniform
Interesting....
Looks like the uniforms in the Countdown comics. Given that they're standing in what appears to be a vineyard, could this actually be the Romulan colony depicted in the comic? Could it be the Countdown story is actually canon?
Hmmm. I like these uniforms too -- and I like them better than the TNG Uniforms -- but I can't picture a design like this being thought of in 1989. OTOH, if it were introduced in the late-'90s instead of the FC Uniforms, I could see that.
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The story in the comic was something they created for the show, but decided not to put in the show.
Isn't the year 2397, not 2399? It's the 10th anniversary of the Romulan supernova, which was in 2387.
They never said it was the 10th anniversary specifically. And episode 2 established that the current date is 2399...
...with the onscreen date at the opening during the Mars incident flashback, which said that it was "2385, 14 years ago".
So there seems to be a new division colour. It’s not science, we see brighter blues on other actors in the episodes, this one is way darker
https://twitter.com/trekcore/status/1224137404090589184?s=21
https://twitter.com/trekcore/status/1224137404090589184?s=21
They never said it was the 10th anniversary of the supernova.
Oh, OK. I guess I subliminally heard "10th anniversary".
I think it's science blue under odd light.
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