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Star Trek's 10 Best Costumes(?!)
By Jordan Hoffman, StarTrek.com

Much of the fun of Star Trek conventions comes from wandering around and seeing everyone in costumes. It's great to see so many folks in Federation uniforms, but I always delight in some of the more esoteric sartorial choices. Last summer in Las Vegas I saw a guy dressed as Kryton the Elasian security chief from "Elaan of Troyius" and nearly lost my mind.

There are literally hundreds of strange and silly costumes from the Star Trek Universe. I don't know if I could ever pick the best. Heck, I don't know if I could pick the best out of Deanna Troi's closet. Do I go with the classic, form-fitting purple number, or her ankle-length bust-enhancing turquoise dress? (Oh why oh why would I ever want to choose? Isn't Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations worth anything anymore?!) All I can say is that what follows are ten costumes that tickle me. Let's take a look back, have a laugh and then you can tell me all the ones I should have picked instead.


10) Ambassador T'Pel
What seems at first to be just a small part of "Data's Day" turns out to have the most interplanetary intrigue.
Check out what this less-than-warm-and-fuzzy Vulcan is wearing. A blue felt cone hat with a leather band and an upside-down triangle patch with an emblem . . .and that's just the beginning. There's all sorts of elaborate chin straps and material wrapped around and dangling from her neck, plus a necklace that looks, at first glance, like Darth Vader's chestplate. Is this degree of adornment logical? Absolutely not. Which is why it comes as no surprise at the end that T'Pel is actually a Romulan spy!


9) Enterprise Security from TMP-era.
This is a long way from a simple red shirt.
It wasn't just the Enterprise that was refit for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Most noticeable were the uniforms, doing away with the bright primary colors and going for more hushed earth tones. Then there were those odd buckles at the center of the one-piece jumpsuits or at the bottom of tunics. (If you dig deep you'll read that they were medical scanner/receivers called perscans.) Anyway, all of this pales compared to what the security teams were wearing at the time. The maroon rugby helmets with Starfleet insignias right at the center plus heavy leather vests with plastic casing are unlike anything else ever worn by crew-members of the Enterprise. .....


7) EV Suits from "The Tholian Web"
It was a mandate from NBC, then owned by RCA, who were trying to push new color sets: keep Star Trek bright! So even in the inky blackness of space (or caught in an inter-dimensional phase) it was important to have splashes of blue and red.
Then there's the headpiece. Not sure if they're drying laundry or beaming to a planet of beekeepers. All I know is that as a kid I thought this was the COOLEST thing I'd ever seen. (Okay, obviously I still think it's pretty cool.)....


5) Anbo-Jyutsu Uniforms
The family that plays vaguely Japanese violent sports together stays together!
Will Riker and his father Kyle work out their differences by bowing at one another, then beating each other up with sticks. The costumes might resemble what Bob and Doug McKenzie wear in Strange Brew, but that only adds to the charm. While Parrises Squares was a more popular game, those uniforms (bright blue spandex?) didn't have half the swagger that the Anbo-Jyutsu ones had. ......


3) Environmental Suit from "The Naked Time"
If these suits didn't have detachable gloves, how many headaches would that have saved?
There aren't too many moments when Star Trek's sets and costumes get so cheesy that you laugh out loud. This show ain't Lost in Space. But even I, a fan to my last breath, has to admit that this looks flat-out ridiculous. And that's why I love it! Legend goes that the reason it looks so much like a shower curtain — is that it IS a shower curtain! Nice that the tops are flat, probably adds a little ventilation around the scalp.


1) Picard's Dress Uniform
Season One of TNG, you were doing so many things. You dove headfirst into the plasma pool of Utopianism is ways that broadened the Original Series. For starters, it was "where no one has gone before". This egalitarianism of the sexes was quite noticeable in the somewhat notorious "skant", a half skirt, half jumpsuit that some women and, yes, some men chose to wear on the Enterprise. We never saw any bridge officers rockin' the full skant, but we did see Picard (and Riker) in this somewhat feminizing dress uniform. I mean, I guess it's a bit like a kilt, but it's also kinda like a dress. Not that it doesn't look nice! In fact, it always bugged me that we didn't see it more. I like the decorative element from pips to the neckline, especially.
Now, before you start screaming at me in the comments or on Facebook, keep in mind there were about fifteen ties for 11th place. But sometimes you have to make decisions. That's how we defeated the Dominion! (Oh, crap, there's absolutely nothing here from DS9, is there?) Anyway, now's your chance to sound off.

BDT: Yes, I left out a few.

And here is one I like:


LINK:
http://startrek.com/article/star-treks-10-best-costumes

[Robert (Butch) Day]

Ambassador T'Pel's hat was scrounged from Western Costume — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Costume — and appears to be modified from one of the priest hats in The Mole People (1956). It's made out of leather and stiffened cotton.

(See The Mole People (1956) thread for pictures.)
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[scotpens]

No list of the best Star Trek costumes would be complete without Leslie Parrish's gravity-defying Grecian outfit in "Who Mourns for Adonais?"



Supposedly the top was held in place only by the weight of the long, heavy cape over Leslie's shoulder. I think it's more than likely some double-sided sticky tape was involved as well.

[Krel]

[Pow]

Those Elan of Troyus costumes are wretched.

Like something you would see on one of Irwin Allen's TV shows.

[Bud Brewster]

[scotpens]

[bulldogtrekker]

Weirdest and Sexiest Costumes from the Original Star Trek

Star Trek has broadened our visions of the future in so many ways — but most of all, the original Star Trek took us to the final frontier of fashion. And beyond. Some of the costumes that people sported in William Shatner's day remain classics today — and some of them are just... I don't even know.
Here's our roundup of the weirdest and trashiest fashions of the original Star Trek. We're not picking on terrible alien makeup so much, because that's a matter of cheap special effects. Rather, this is the bikinis, the uniforms, and Kirk's strange workout gear......



"For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" — she's the High Priestess of the Argyle Planet!

Link for full story: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5969957/weirdest-and-sexiest-costumes-from-the-original-star-trek/

[Pow]

Wardrobe I liked from ST:TOS First season.

(1.) The gray field jackets from "The Cage."

(2.)Female tunics from "The Cage."

(3.) Outfits worn by the lovely ladies from "Mudd's Women."

(4.) Kirk's green tunic from "Charlie X." Sorry, Bud

(5.) Charlie Evan's jacket when he first boards the Enterprise, and the tunic he wears later on.

(6.) Yeoman Janet Rand's nightgown from "Charlie X."

(7.) Romulan uniforms : "Balance of Terror."

(8.) Sherry Jackson's outfit : "What Are Little Girls Made Of?''

(9.) Barbara Anderson's many outfits : "The Conscience of the King."

(10.) Dress uniforms : "Court Martial."

(11.) Ladies feathery outfits & Finnegan's Star Fleet Academy tunic : "Shore Leave."

(12.) Dress that Trelayne conjures up for a yeoman (Venita Wolf) : "The Squire of Gothos."

(13.) Robes of the Lawgivers : "The Return of the Archons."

(14.) Formal jacket Khan wore : "Space Seed."

(15.) Ambassador Fox's jacket : "A Taste of Armageddon."

[Krel]

People theorize that the reason they never reused the field jackets is because they were not made of fabric, but some kind of foam and were not very durable. They also appeared to be stiff and that may have caused some problems.

David.

[Pow]

Thanks David, I was not aware of the field jackets not being made of sturdier material.

If they had been very durable I'd have matched the color code of the ship's officers tunics to the field jacket.

[Gord Green]

Great choices all, Pow!

There were very few real functional costumes to be seen . . . but . . . oh how colorful and sexy!
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