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Plus she was hot!
For the movies I'd want these uniforms, which cover six films from 1982-1994:
Would be good to assemble the seven classic crew, plus a Saavik. Preferably Robin Curtis:
I'd love a Robin Curtis Saavik as well (especially in that cool landing party gear)... but not before a Kirstie Alley Saavik. Since she was the original. And also because it would be cool to have a figure with her unique red collar instead of the white.
TMP department colours made more sense than TWOK, which seemed very arbitrary. Why are helm and engineering team same colour? Bonkers! I prefer TMP.
I don't know.
Maybe they had in mind that the helm and engineering on a ship was akin to the pilot and stoker on a steamship. One steers while one provides the power as required.
In TOS it always seemed funny that red was engineering, communications and security. That is, representing all of Operations. Like the engineers, signals and military police all sharing a branch colour.
The movie uniforms split Operations into four sub-sections. Helm would either have to go to Engineering or Communications/Navigation.
TMP did separate Science from Medical, though, which made sense. I also like the colour behind the badges to identify the branch.
That idea transferred to the straps on the TWOK uniforms.
I think the idea behind the 3 color divisions in TOS was due to the PAL TV color system red, green and blue (although I've never considered the command tunics as green, despite what W W Theiss affirmed in the 1980s. It always looked gold to me, just Kirk's wrap around followed the "green" idea.)
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Color television households represented a small segment of the viewing audience (about 17.3% of television households as of January 1, 1967), but their numbers were growing rapidly. By 1971, nearly half of television households were watching in colour.
In that vein, maybe the simplicity was due to the fact that most people would've watched Star Trek on a black and white television when it first aired.
According to this page:
The lighting, the costumes and the set decorations - not to forget the bridge and its instruments - of the show were so colorful, I think the producers did not have the BW TV users in mind.
It feels like TMP was in a parallel universe, and the canon movies began for real with The Wrath of Khan, which became the first part of what seems like a reboot trilogy.
I preferred the TWOK costumes back in the day, but I've gained a whole new appreciation of the TMP ones with age (and the movie itself). I think they're closer to Roddenberry's original vision, and the jumpsuits echo the later series from TNG onwards.
The Kelvin Universe and comic books have tried to incorporate them too.
Yep, I love these uniforms. I didn't grow up with TOS, so the motion pictures were my entry to the franchise. A Kirk and Spock from this line would be perfect.
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