In the first pilot, all delta insignia were bordered in gold; this changed to black for the second pilot and subsequent productions. This is the uniform first seen in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," and which persisted throughout the following four Trek feature films. It can also be surmised that if a cadet has one bar, he has one year at the academy, two bars for two years, and so on. [22] Additionally, some Star Trek publications, including officially licensed ones, posit additional ranks that are not seen or mentioned in live-action productions. The black areas are seen on the shoulders and the pants, and the uniforms's sleeves and abdominal area are colored to indicate the individual's division, with red indicating command and helm; gold for engineering, security, and operations; and blue for science and medical (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint"). Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. I just think the guys could use something on the collar instead of being the same color. In the episode "Future Imperfect", the insignia are slightly altered so as to convince a character that 16 years have passed. A simulacrum of Kirk's academy rival and bully Finnegan is seen wearing it in "Shore Leave (Star Trek: The Original Series)". Division colors follow the original TOS scheme, with command and flight control officers wearing gold piping, engineering, communications, and security officers wearing red piping, and medical and science officers (including linguists) wearing blue piping. Also, in the pilots, the science and operations symbols were switched (spiral for science and planet circle for operations). The blue tended to appear teal under certain lighting conditions in the later seasons and subsequent spinoffs. Rank is indicated by 1 to 5 paired diamond-shaped silver-metal "pips" worn on the tunic's shoulder-boards (ensigns wear 1 paired pip, lieutenants wear 2 paired pips, commanders wear 3 paired pips, captains wear 4 paired pips, and flag officers wear 5 paired pips). Therefore, please be courteous to other users who may not be aware of current developments by using the {{spoiler}}, {{spoilers}} or {{majorspoiler}} tags when adding new information from sources less than six months old. Kirk's father is killed, and Jim Kirk is born in space three months prematurely after his mother is evacuated from the Kelvin. The uniforms will be the familiar things we can latch onto. "Voyager" kept the grey-neck look throughout its run, as they were 75 years away from home and couldn't get the orders to change outfits. This came to be known as the Star Trek delta insignia, and has since become iconic of the Starship Enterprise and the entire Star Trek franchise. The Beyond ones with the high collars have the same issue as the v-necks here for me; the black undershirts seem weirdly undersized and look like they either shouldn't be visible, or should come up higher. Nonetheless, Playmates Toys released a number of action figures wearing these planned uniforms. A grayish-indigo mock turtleneck undershirt was added, to which rank pips are affixed. The new uniform comprised a single two-piece open-necked jumpsuit with the colored and black areas of the TNG uniform reversed (black torso/sleeves/pants and colored shoulders) with the upper part being a removable jacket along with a visible zipper, resembling the TNG cadet uniforms. But the cast members hated the uniform's painfully tight fit and lack of pockets,[11] and after Patrick Stewart's chiropractor warned that they risked permanent injury, the actors persuaded the costumers to gradually replace them with wool uniforms. However, the old DS9 uniform appears four more times following the introduction of the movie gray uniform design in the Season 5 episodes, "In Purgatory's Shadow" and "By Inferno's Light" worn by the real Dr. Julian Bashir while still being trapped in the Internment Camp 371 as well as the Season 7 episode, "Field of Fire" in a photograph and in the flashback scenes of the series finale, "What You Leave Behind". The gray coats also bore silver rank stripes on the sleeves. Theiss, the costume designer from the original series, returned to design the initial TNG uniforms; they marked his last contribution to Star Trek wardrobe before he died. Rank for admirals (as worn by Admiral Alexander Marcus) is indicated by 1 to 5 paired diamond-shaped gold-metal "pips" worn on the flag officer tunic's shoulder-boards. The USS Voyager took on that look, and DS9 changed to a uniform with grey shoulders and department-colored collars. There is also a field jacket for away missions with several large pockets, arm patches, white ribbing and a large white turnover collar. In "Living Witness",[15][16] the crew was shown to be wearing black undershirts with a high collar (turtleneck style) instead of the usual grayish-indigo undershirts with a low collar, no combadges or rank insignia, while some were wearing black gloves including Captain Kathryn Janeway. Generations instead has the crew wearing both TNG and DS9 uniforms, sometimes in the same scene (for instance, Worf and Riker in the battle against the Duras Sisters' Bird of Prey or Data and Geordi scanning the Amargosa Observatory for trilithium) as Jonathan Frakes and LeVar Burton had to borrow Avery Brooks and Colm Meaney's costumes respectively since the time was so short while there was enough time to make DS9-style costumes to fit on Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner, though neither of the costumes fit very well on both Frakes and Burton as Brooks' costume was too small on Frakes, which resulted in having the sleeves rolled up (similar to Miles O'Brien's on Deep Space Nine) and Meaney's costume looked too big on Burton. The costume design often changed in the various series, to represent different time periods, and for reasons of appearance and comfort. Starfleet personnel back in the Alpha Quadrant are seen wearing this uniform in later seasons of the show as well, when Voyager reestablishes contact with home. Fletcher redesigned the costumes for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. This is worn on a red tunic. All ranks up to Captain appeared on screen; The Star Trek Encyclopedia showed them all to be analogous to the normal rank system. This uniform features a colored turtleneck undertunic (with the same departmental color scheme as in earlier shows) covered by a black jacket with colored bands on the lower sleeves near the cuffs showing the wearer's division, the shoulders and upper chest of which are ribbed and made of thick, violet-gray material. The new Starfleet insignia is a silver diamond shape inset with a gold "Arrowhead" symbol facing to the left; this is probably a combination communicator and temporal beacon. thats basically what the kelvin timeline movies did and it works great. The engineering radiation suits have a colored collar (Star Trek II): black indicates officer, red indicates cadet. The costumes adopted from season 3 onward and later series' costumes were designed by Robert Blackman. Characters addressed as "crewman" wore no sleeve insignia. Following the release of Star Trek: First Contact, the new gray movie uniform design also appeared in DS9's fifth season and for the remainder of the series. However, Worf is the only male character in the TNG crew to not wear the DS9 uniform in the film, although he would later join the DS9 crew in the fourth season of Deep Space Nine and none of the female characters wear the DS9 uniform in the film, although Alyssa Ogawa is the only female to wear the DS9 uniform in the film. The uniforms depicted in this series matched the general parameters and appearance of those used in the live action series. Marcus is described as a fleet Admiral (usually equivalent to a NATO five-star military rank) and wears 5 paired gold pips on his shoulder-boards. Roddenberry's intent was that personnel of all starfleet starships would wear this, but in production of the first season episode "The Omega Glory, Theiss mistakenly got the idea that each starship would have a unique insignia, from the fact that some starship officers in an earlier episode "Charlie X" wore a different insignia (see Civilian starship duty). The changes in uniform, while perhaps the most logical thing in terms of continuity, do make sense from a dramatic perspective: A viewer will be able to tell at a single glance what era the characters are living in. These new ones look most like Beyonds imo, but without the high collar. Gray jackets were sometimes worn on landing party duty. Looks much more like an actual uniform than the T-shirts in 09/ID without the overly rigid look in the Type B from OP's pic. Because of the sheer volume of current Trek, it can seem like Starfleet is playing a little fast and loose with their traditions of formality. The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Parallels" used an alternate combadge design where rank was denoted by the number of bars behind the arrowhead. I think they all look great, and I love the idea of multiple variants being in use at the same time. The grey-shoulder look would also carry into future NextGen movies. With only the three active Trek shows/movie series running, the uniform shifts were easy to track. J. J. Abrams' Star Trek series takes place in a parallel universe starting in 2233 (James T. Kirk's birth year), known as the "Kelvin timeline" for the fact it was created when the late twenty-fourth century Romulan Nero destroyed the USS Kelvin, on which Kirk's parents served. And none of this addresses formal uniforms, standard athletic uniforms, away mission jackets, medical uniforms, etc. Captain Jean-Luc Picard, "The First Duty". "Strange New Worlds" features a subtle update of the 1966 uniforms(and even then, were updated slightly from their initial appearance on "Discovery"). [10] The colors include white for command; gold for engineering; gray for science, communications and navigation; dark green for security; light green for medical; dark blue for operations; light blue for special services; and red for low-grade officers and officer cadets. The second movie-era uniform consists of a burgundy ("blood") double-breasted jacket with a black stripe along a sealing mechanism (admirals also had smaller gold stripes below, the number depending on rank), with a colored strap over the right shoulder to close the tunic, attached to which is a rank pin. [citation needed] Jumpsuits in the same colors with black undershirts were also worn, mostly by background characters. If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened you don't deserve to wear that uniform. Admirals also retained the TNG style. Also, a number of women onboard can be seen wearing the long sleeve top and pants uniform similar to those worn in "The Cage". Deep Space Nine introduced a new style of uniform that appeared to run in parallel to the one seen on TNG. Admiral Marcus' rank on this uniform is indicated by a wide silver band over a narrow silver band and under two narrow silver bands on the cuff. In later series, the gold color was canonized in dialog. As it appears in those instances, it can be surmised that the insignia of a Cadet consists of one, two, three, or four copper and black bars, similar to those of a modern Lieutenant in the United States Army. The stripes on the jacket cuffs are double the width of those on the officer's jacket, and they show the admiral's rank insignia. I do love me some mandarin/grandpa collars though. It was replaced in the third season by a nylon fabric used in professional baseball uniforms. Characters also wear a black belt with a buckle shaped like the Starfleet arrowhead in a circle, complete with TOS command star. Pike wearing a uniform from the classic movies immediately communicates to the uninitiated that he is from a time far away enough for the uniforms to have changed, and to the initiated that he is from close to 27 years in the future when "Wrath of Khan" takes place. Uniforms similar to this style are shown in the Next Generation television series, although without the turtleneck or belt (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise", "Dark Page", "Family, "Violations"). It's a starship not a gym. The shirts are now in two layers: a wide-collared over-shirt color-coded gold, blue, or red for department as in the original series, with a quilted pattern and a colored hem-line from the neck to the armpit; and a black undershirt, visually imitating the black collar of the original TOS design. Enterprise, set before all other incarnations, did not include characters who hold the ranks of lieutenant commander or lieutenant, junior grade. Why Star Trek's Ever-Changing Uniforms Are More Than Just Style Choices. Also, please do not include details in the summary bar when editing pages and do not anticipate making additions relating to sources not yet in release. Since Trek is largely about Starfleet, military vessels, and people in uniform ("Star Trek" is, above all, a workplace show), all the characters in any series have to wear the same thing, especially if they take place in the same timeline the way NextGen, DS9, and "Voyager" did. Security and engineering personnel wear armor and radiation suits respectively, similar to those worn in The Motion Picture, although security guards wear a red, turtle-necked uniform underneath (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country). One significant change from TOS is the addition of the peaked cap to the dress uniforms. Blackman described the jumpsuits as "more like a NASA flight suit" than the previous Starfleet costumes,[18] and actors from other Star Trek shows envied the Enterprise actors' much more comfortable and conventional outfits.[19][20]. The new style combadge (with the previous gold oval background replaced by a rectangular gold background with a cutout in the center) was also introduced for all uniform types. It reminds me most of the uniforms in "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before". The uniforms could be fitted with pouches for carrying tricorders and Type 2 phasers on the waist, and the early versions had a small pocket built in on the left side of the waist for carrying a smaller Type 1 phaser when appearing openly armed was not desired. Captains also had the option of a more casual uniform vest of the same basic design, though the violet-gray extended much lower. Thanks to the NextGen episode "Tapestry," audiences know that those uniforms were in use at least until when Captain Picard was a young man. To establish something of a brief timeline of the newer Trek programs: the first two seasons of "Star Trek: Discovery" take place about a decade prior to "Star Trek." The early first season episode "Charlie X" shows the captain and first officer of the Antares wearing a differently shaped insignia. The above breakdown of "Star Trek's" timeline reveals that Trek, unlike other sci-fi franchises, offers a very distinct, recorded history and chronology. Justman noticed the error while reviewing footage and consulted with Roddenberry, who clarified that this indeed was a mistake: all Starfleet starship personnel are to wear the delta insignia as seen on the Enterprise crew uniform. The design is similar to that in The Motion Picture, stated by designer Michael Kaplan in the book Star Trek: The Art of the Film to be a deliberate homage. Strangely, Picard wears a black belt around the waist while wearing the DS9 uniform.[14]. As Roddenberry clarified There is also a desert uniform with khaki pants and white shirt. The final episode, rife with fan service, sees Captain Pike (Anson Mount) confronting his future self and visiting the "Original Series" era via a magical widget called a Klingon time crystal. Captain Braxton wears four gold chevrons (equivalent to four gold pips) and Lieutenant Ducane wears two gold chevrons (equivalent to two gold pips). During the series, T'Pol is almost never seen wearing the standard uniform although she is a commissioned officer in Starfleet, and often considered to be the first officer. One for each era of Starfleet, and for each notable ship (it's been established that some ships wear different uniforms than others, again presumably as a way to denote the nature of their assignments). Like its Enterprise predecessor, a blue uniform was worn, with a shirt-trouser combination with a single collar on the left side. Divisions or section assignments are indicated by a colored circle behind the delta, rather than the uniform color itself: red is for engineering, pale green for medical, orange for science, white for command, pale gold for operations, and gray for security. Thus: a Commodore, when seen, wears a wide gold braid with a gold stripe above and below; a captains insignia resembles that of a naval lieutenant commander (two and a half stripes); a commanders resembles a naval lieutenant (two stripes); a lieutenant commander's resembles a naval lieutennant junior grade (LtJG) (one and a half stripes); a lieutenant's resembles a naval ensign (one stripe), and an ensign wears no sleeve stripes. When Kirk finds himself in a dark mirror universe, his outfit is immediately different. Rank is indicated by stripes on long sleeves as per TOS, but now shoulder board stripes are employed when there are no long sleeves. The edges of the coats are piped in silver for field officers and in gold for flag officers. The film has multiple uniform styles, including one-piece jumpsuits, matching shirt and pants, and tunics either with buttons or a sash around the waist. The new officers' uniform designs proved unpopular with the regular cast, and when Harve Bennett took over as producer of the second motion picture, he ordered another redesign because he did not want "an all-gray crew on an all-gray ship."[9]. This likely added to the confusion of the "unique starship insignia" theory. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. In lieu of Reddit gold and awards, we ask that you donate to the WHO COVID-19 response fund. The original uniform designs were the product of costume designer Bill Theiss. Sometimes different styles were deliberately mixed to enhance the sense of time travel or alternative universes. Starfleet Academy cadets wear a smaller, pewter-colored version of the Evening Starflower worn by Starbase personnel. Three variants are visible in "Conspiracy": Admiral Quinn's insignia has no pips, Admiral Savar's has one, and Admiral Aaron's has two. Furthermore, the admiral's uniform incorporates a belt, whose buckle is either a plain gold rectangle, as seen frequently in DS9, or a gold oval with an image of the United Federation of Planets' Seal, as was the case with Admiral Dougherty from Insurrection. They remind me a lot of soccer/futbol jerseys. Science: The star is replaced with a circle representing a planet with its equator outlined. The collar of the tunic has a colored piping similar to that of the original diamond-shaped shoulder piping. The crew also wears the TNG-style dress uniforms (VOY: "Course: Oblivion", "Someone to Watch Over Me", "One Small Step", "Ashes to Ashes").[12]. Beginning with the first production episode "The Corbomite Maneuver", the department colors were slightly altered from the pilot versions: command and helm personnel wear gold shirts; operations, engineering and security personnel wear red; and science and medical personnel wear blue, all with black collars and undershirts. He therefore designed a rectangular insignia worn by the captain and the chief medical officer of the USS Exeter. The classic yellow, blue, red combination was eschewed in favor of gold, silver and copper for command, sciences and operations respectively. The uniforms in the second reboot film are developed further. The number of stripes was kept lower than on U.S. Navy uniforms to avoid an overly militaristic look as per TOS,[8] reflecting Roddenberry's insistence that the role of Starfleet was expressly non-military.
Sitemap 29