Throughout the run of DS9, ship-based Starfleet personnel continue to wear the older uniform design. Captains also had the option of a more casual uniform vest of the same basic design, though the violet-gray extended much lower. Also, there was no distinction made between ensigns and non-commissioned officers or enlisted crew members in TOS; everyone below the rank of lieutenant was presumed to be an ensign. Nonetheless, Playmates Toys released a number of action figures wearing these planned uniforms. 
Costume design is being used to communicate time, place, and mood. Not a fan of Disco's lopsided collars or the black undershirts being so low. These uniforms would also make an appearance in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Visitor" and the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Endgame". Specifically, it is the tartan of the Clan Scott, one of Scotland's oldest clans. 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. The same colors were used and the rank insignia would be shown above the right breast over a black line which cut off the shoulder area. The costumes adopted from season 3 onward and later series' costumes were designed by Robert Blackman. Also, there are two different kinds of field jackets worn on away missions. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. All ranks up to Captain appeared on screen; The Star Trek Encyclopedia showed them all to be analogous to the normal rank system. It was the era of the miniskirt. We hated our space suits. Star Trek news and discussion. Uniforms come in gray, white, gray and white, blue, brown, and beige. In later series, the gold color was canonized in dialog. Three variants are visible in "Conspiracy": Admiral Quinn's insignia has no pips, Admiral Savar's has one, and Admiral Aaron's has two. "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. 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 delta insignia badge is now a metal pin rather than a sewn-on patch, gold for flag officers and silver for all lower-ranked officers. With only the three active Trek shows/movie series running, the uniform shifts were easy to track. Why Star Trek's Ever-Changing Uniforms Are More Than Just Style Choices. (Star Trek II). 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"). Thanks to the NextGen episode "Tapestry," audiences know that those uniforms were in use at least until when Captain Picard was a young man. Please respect our subreddit rules. I adore the Beyond uniforms. The costume design often changed in the various series, to represent different time periods, and for reasons of appearance and comfort. Commodore Matt Decker is seen in the second season episode "The Doomsday Machine", wearing a pretzel-shaped insignia.
These are second only to the security redshirts as "cannon fodder". 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"). The perception by fans of the command uniforms being yellow/gold instead of green, thanks to set lighting and other factors, resulted in the producers committing to a definitive gold-color for animation purposes. In the episode, "Parallels", variations in uniforms and insignia suggest a meeting of characters from different parallel universes. Now that no one is confused, let us move on. This post contains spoilers for the season finale of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.". 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. Pike's future self coming from a timeline where a great Romulan war is raging offers present-day Pike an opportunity to visit a period seven years hence where he will have the opportunity to prevent said war from ever starting. The division colors use the same TNG scheme, though the science division is now blue-green. maybe a little slash fic. 'Thank You. The NextGen uniforms were the standard, with the DS9 uniforms appearing to be assignment-based; perhaps deep space assignments warranted a new look. The uniforms will be the familiar things we can latch onto. I do love me some mandarin/grandpa collars though. When Pike shows up in "Khan"-era uniforms, we know when that's from. 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. A grayish-indigo mock turtleneck undershirt was added, to which rank pips are affixed. 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. This likely added to the confusion of the "unique starship insignia" theory. Sisko also wore the TNG uniform on certain formal occasions, during his first arrival at DS9 (in the series pilot episode, "Emissary"), and when he was temporarily given the duties of "Head of Security" for Starfleet Headquarters on Earth (in the Season 4 episode, "Paradise Lost"). Also, a number of women onboard can be seen wearing the long sleeve top and pants uniform similar to those worn in "The Cage". The uniforms in the second reboot film are developed further. 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. Beverly Crusher often wears a blue laboratory coat over her standard uniform, beginning in TNG: "The Naked Now." This was not publicized, leading to the "unique starship insignia" theory taking hold among fans. Starfleet personnel fighting in ground battles appear in the DS9 episodes "Nor the Battle to the Strong" and "The Siege of AR-558". The dress uniform for Starfleet officers on the ground is shown to be a mid-gray in color and a similar style to the red uniforms worn by the academy cadets in the first film. When an alternate future is shown in "Future Imperfect" or "All Good Things," the uniforms serve as the instant indicator that reality has been rent asunder. This combadge insignia was redesigned for the movie Star Trek Generations (the only surviving part of a planned redesign of the uniforms), replacing the oval with a trapezoid with a cutout oval in the center. The crew also wears the TNG-style dress uniforms (VOY: "Course: Oblivion", "Someone to Watch Over Me", "One Small Step", "Ashes to Ashes").[12]. The Starfleet officers and crewmembers seen in The Next Generation wear a jumpsuit with a Starfleet communicator badge (or 'combadge' as it was sometimes called) on the left chest and rank insignia on the right side of the collar. [2] Miniskirt-length dresses (of the same materials and colors as the shirts) with cheer briefs and dark tights were worn by the women. This designates Decker's rare status as a flag officer in command of a single starship, the USS Constellation. 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].
In Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) and Star Trek: The Motion Picture, ranks are indicated by sleeve stripes. The early first season episode "Charlie X" shows the captain and first officer of the Antares wearing a differently shaped insignia. The original plans for the aborted Star Trek: Phase II television series involved retaining TOS uniforms but when the project became Star Trek: The Motion Picture, they were replaced with a new design by Robert Fletcher,[7] because, according to Susan Sackett and Gene Roddenberry in The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the bright colors of the 1960s original, so vibrant on television, would distract viewer attention on the big screen. Rank insignia on duty uniforms are worn on right side of shoulders only, but rank insignia on dress uniforms are worn on both sides. etc. The uniform was a chronology-appropriate reference to the way Starfleet uniforms change over time, and was an instant indicator in addition to Anson Mount's age make-up of when exactly this new Pike was visiting from. The uniforms depicted in this series matched the general parameters and appearance of those used in the live action series. LeVar Burton, on the first two seasons' uniforms[11]. Especially jarring was the mixture of uniforms seen in the 1994 film "Star Trek: Generations" which featured several characters wearing the color-coded departmental uniforms as they appeared on "Next Generation," but several others wearing the colored-shoulder-grey-turtleneck uniforms that first appeared on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." However, in order to distinguish the three shows, the uniforms were slightly different. In the original "Star Trek," the female officers wore miniskirt uniforms, a sexist trope that "Next Generation" tried to take the curse off of by depicting male officers wearing them as well. Confusion returned to the franchise during production of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode In a Mirror Darkly, which shows what happened to the lost USS Defiant appearing in the original series episode The Tholian Web.
Sticklers for continuity and all good Trekkies are likely sticklers for continuity might point out that the frequent changes of uniform may not make a lot of sense for a military organization like Starfleet. Whether it's scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth. Based on the success and increasing popularity of Star Trek in syndication, an animated version of the series was produced from 1973 to 1974. Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. In this version, Starfleet officers wear rank insignia on the shoulder strap and left sleeve just above the armband. The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth. Operations: This includes Engineering, Security, and Communications. Starfleet Academy cadets wear a smaller, pewter-colored version of the Evening Starflower worn by Starbase personnel. 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. (e.g. The over-shirt has the division delta badge shape printed onto the fabric, providing a textured appearance. The production rank system worked out by series creator Gene Roddenberry and costume designer Bill Theiss resembles that of the United States Navy, in contrast to other science fiction franchises that use an army ranking system. The DS9 uniforms were first used in the premiere episode, "Emissary" and would continued to be used up to the Season 5 episode, "The Ascent". "Deep Space Nine" overlapped with "Star Trek: The Next Generation" for a time, and then shared "Star Trek: Voyager" airspace for multiple seasons. As much as they call it a stretch fabric, spandex in that configuration doesn't give all that much. Meanwhile, "Star Trek: Lower Decks" takes place after the events of the 2002 movie "Star Trek: Nemesis," and characters from NextGen appear regularly. When Future Pike arrives to tell Present Pike about the possibility of a future timeline, he appears in a red nautical uniform with a pull-across breast flap, an over-the-shoulder clasp, and a small, white collar.
All uniforms include the command star arrowhead insignia from TOS, now adopted as the Starfleet emblem, on the left chest; officers have a white rectangular piece behind the arrowhead, while enlisted personnel do not. Enlisted personnel wear a one-piece red jumpsuit in a similar color to the officer uniform, with tan shoulders and upper chest and black undershirts. The symbol is a six-sided spiral shape. 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. It was replaced in the third season by a nylon fabric used in professional baseball uniforms. Non-commissioned officers wear a hollow gold square on the shoulder boards but not at the sleeves.
The collar of the tunic has a colored piping similar to that of the original diamond-shaped shoulder piping. During all the shows set in the 24th century, a consistent insignia scheme is used for officers: a series of gold pips, either a solid color or an outline, worn on the right collar. At present the expanded Trek universe is in a period of major upheaval with the finale of Year Five, the Coda miniseries and the continuations of Discovery, Picard and Lower Decks; and the premieres of Prodigy and Strange New Worlds, the advent of new eras in Star Trek Online gaming, as well as other post-55th Anniversary publications. Kirk's father is killed, and Jim Kirk is born in space three months prematurely after his mother is evacuated from the Kelvin. These are unique symbols for each rank like those worn universally by officers in all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. This uniform is explicitly worn contemporary to the later Deep Space Nine/First Contact uniform. etc. 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. Alternatively, the rank of fleet captain (a senior grade of captain and brevet flag officer rank) is signified by 5 paired silver pips, and the rank of admiral is always signified by 5 paired gold pips regardless of grade. The Star Trek delta still remains the symbol for all Enterprise staff members, but the science department's planetary circle and the operations 6-sided spiral are discontinued, replaced with the elongated star. On certain occasions, the characters would wear dress uniforms (TOS: first shown in "The Menagerie" and later used in "Court Martial", "Space Seed", "Journey to Babel", and "The Savage Curtain") that are made of a shinier fabric, presumably a polyester satin, and are decorated with gold piping and colored badges that vary depending on rank. While women wear trousers in the pilots, most female Starfleet personnel wear more revealing costumes per request from NBC; Grace Lee Whitney suggested miniskirts. The division colors for command and operations switched from those used in Enterprise and TOS while the division color for science stayed the same. 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. On certain occasions, Enterprise characters wear dress uniforms similar to the blue jumpsuit, decorated with the same pattern of colored piping, but lacking the zip-up pockets and combined with a white long-sleeved undershirt and, sometimes depending on rank, a white tie.
In the TNG episode "All Good Things", an alternate timeline showed a uniform with the full color shirt (including shoulders). When I was in the Army we had the standard duty uniform of the day, but we also had variants we could wearjackets, sweaters, pull-overs etc. Like its Enterprise predecessor, a blue uniform was worn, with a shirt-trouser combination with a single collar on the left side. The command dress uniforms remained green to match the perceived colors represented by the live action series.
The division colors still follow the TNG scheme, though the science division is now sky blue rather than blue-green. The uniforms that they'll apparently wear on SNW may be more comfortable, but the type B uniforms look better to me.
Gray jackets were sometimes worn on landing party duty. In the show's early seasons the uniforms were one-piece jumpsuits made of Spandex, and sized slightly too small so that they would be stretched when worn and provide a smooth appearance. Black boots were worn by both sexes. As in the original series, female officers wear dresses, some with short sleeves (seen on Lt. Uhura), others with long sleeves (as seen on some of the background extras). Going forward, the delta symbol remained consistent for all starship personnel, as seen in Court Martial and The Tholian Web.[6]. Nichelle Nichols did not believe that the miniskirts were unusually short or revealing: I was wearing them on the street. As the film progresses, some characters alternate between the TNG and DS9 uniforms and sometimes switch back to the old TNG uniforms (for instance, Picard switches back to the TNG uniform in the film's last scene). The characters of Major Kira and Odo did not wear Starfleet uniforms, as they were part of the Bajoran militia. A large number of security officers sacrificially die in landing party duty, leading to the meme ", Medical: Doctors wear the science insignia, and nurses wear the, This page was last edited on 8 June 2022, at 01:35.
Ever since the debut of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" in 1993, it became acceptable for multiple "Star Trek" shows to run simultaneously. These new ones look most like Beyonds imo, but without the high collar. In some episodes of the later seasons, starting in TNG: "Darmok", Jean-Luc Picard would sometimes wear a different uniform that consisted of a gray shirt with black ribbed shoulders and collar with a "bomber jacket" that was red overall with black ribbed shoulders, often worn open or very loosely fastened. Dress uniforms for academy cadets and staff are crimson, while flag officers (fleet captains and admirals) use a gray uniform with a white false-plastron front. I think the new V necks would look fine if the black undershirt had a higher collar. Press J to jump to the feed. The highest-ranking admiral seen wears two sets of three-pip insignia. 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. Theiss designed a shield-shaped badge in 1964 which he called the "arrowhead", with input from Roddenberry. 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. It's jarring to a Trekkie's eye to see multiple kinds of uniforms occupying the same bridge at any given moment. However, some uniforms the alternate shirts worn by Captain Kirk, and the Command Section dress uniforms were made of a different material which, while the same color, showed up as chartreuse-green even under the lights and when photographed. Rank is indicated by stripes on long sleeves as per TOS, but now shoulder board stripes are employed when there are no long sleeves. All uniform variants include shoes ("foot coverings") built into the trousers. These were later altered to lack the piping on the shoulders and trouser hems and include a raised collar as a cost-cutting measure. The rank indicators used in the pilots and the production series differed because Roddenberry and Theiss had not yet worked out a consistent system for officer-grade indicators on the uniforms; this they would do after the second pilot. Both uniforms have a United Earth Starfleet patch (featuring the stylized arrowhead emblem) on the right upper arm, and a patch left upper arm denoting the ship one is serving on. Admirals also retained the TNG style. 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. "Star Trek," in frequently rotating uniforms, creates not just visual variety between its multiple, concurrently-running shows, but a solid, visual timeline of Starfleet history. Then, just to muddy the waters further, the third and fourth seasons of "Discovery" take place in the distant 32nd century.
This is worn on a red tunic. LLAP! When Kirk finds himself in a dark mirror universe, his outfit is immediately different. These more closely follow the naval officer pattern, with gold pips equating to a whole stripe and black pips equating to a half stripe. And none of this addresses formal uniforms, standard athletic uniforms, away mission jackets, medical uniforms, etc. Admirals wore numerous different uniform variations in the early years of TNG; a final design was settled on in the sixth season, featuring a jacket with gold piping along a centered front closure, and rank pips (indicating the number of "stars"), in gold squares on either side of the collar.