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Униформа Star Trek - это костюмы, которые носят актеры, изображающие сотрудников вымышленной организации Starfleet в фантастической франшизе Star Trek . Дизайн костюмов часто менялся в разных телесериалах и фильмах, особенно в тех, которые представляют разные периоды времени, как для внешнего вида, так и для удобства. Умышленное смешение стилей униформы из разных серий иногда использовалось для улучшения ощущения путешествий во времени или альтернативных вселенных .

Первоначальная концепция униформы Звездного Флота, которую носил капитан Кристофер Пайк, отличалась от того, что в конечном итоге стало стандартным дизайном. Мужчины носят ребристые водолазки, а женщины - воротники-хомуты. У обоих была серая куртка

Ранг и знаки различия [ править ]

Система рангов вселенной Star Trek напоминает систему рангов ВМС США и многих флотов Содружества Наций , в отличие от других научно-фантастических франшиз, в которых используется армейская система ранжирования . В Star Trek: The Original Series ( TOS ) и Star Trek: The Motion Picture, ранги обозначены нашивками на рукавах. Хотя изначально планировалось, что они будут следовать модели ВМС и береговой охраны США, чтобы избежать чрезмерно кричащего или милитаристского вида, рисунок был изменен. Таким образом, эмблема капитана Звездного Флота похожа на эмблему лейтенанта флота, эмблема командира похожа на морского лейтенанта и так далее, вплоть до прапорщика, который не носит нарукавных знаков различия.

В более поздних фильмах, основанных на «Оригинальном сериале» , звания обозначаются булавками на плечевом ремне и левом рукаве. Это уникальные символы для каждого звания, подобные тем, которые носят офицеры всех родов вооруженных сил США.

В более поздних телесериалах ранги обозначаются разным количеством золотых или черных точек («шипов») или полосок на воротнике униформы. Они более точно соответствуют образцу морских офицеров: золотые шипы соответствуют целой полосе, а черные - половинной полосе.

Ранг и, в частности, различные знаки отличия в TOS вызвали большую путаницу. Действительно, эта путаница привела к производственной ошибке в самом начале первого сезона шоу. Художник по костюмам Уильям Тайсс заметил, что в предыдущих сериях были сотрудники другого корабля, которые носили уникальные знаки различия. Поскольку это было так рано в производстве «Звездного пути», Тайсс объяснил, что различные знаки отличия означают, что каждый отдельный звездолет имеет свои собственные знаки отличия, и создал уникальный дизайн для USS Exeter в эпизоде ​​« The Omega Glory».». Перед выходом серии в эфир Боб Джастман (продюсер) просматривал кадры из серии и заметил аномалию костюма. Боб проконсультировался с Джином Родденберри, который пояснил, что весь персонал звездолета должен носить знаки различия, как показано на форме экипажа «Энтерпрайза». Было слишком поздно исправлять ошибку, но Боб разослал очень дружелюбную записку, указав на ошибку, заявив, что в дальнейшем весь персонал звездолета должен носить знаки различия дельты. Затем в служебной записке разъяснялось, что различные знаки различия, которые можно было увидеть в эпизоде ​​« Чарли X », были обозначением для торгового флота или персонала грузовых судов. В дальнейшем символ дельты оставался неизменным для всего персонала звездолета, как мы видим в « Военном трибунале » и « Толианской паутине ».[1]

К сожалению, эта единственная производственная ошибка вызвала большое замешательство в фан-сообществе, а также еще одну производственную ошибку спустя десятилетия. Существует теория фанатов о том, что у каждого корабля есть свои уникальные знаки отличия, и что Звездный флот повсеместно принял символ дельты только в честь того, что «Энтерпрайз» вернулся из своей очень успешной пятилетней миссии. Эта фанатская теория также привела к производственной ошибке в эпизоде ​​Star Trek: Enterprise « In a Mirror Darkly », где мы видим, что происходит с потерянным USS Defiant , впервые появившимся в эпизоде ​​оригинального сериала «The Tholian Web». Несмотря на то, что в «Толианской паутине» мы видим команду «Дефайанта» с символом дельты, дизайнеры костюмов из «Звездного пути: Энтерпрайз» создали уникальный знак для « Дефайанта». униформа.

В эпоху TOS было шесть знаков различия дежурства:

  1. Знаки отличия звездолетного дежурства
  2. Знаки отличия космического корабля (вспомогательный флот / торговый флот)
  3. Знаки отличия заставы
  4. Знаки отличия кадетского дежурства
  5. Знаки отличия дежурства звездной базы
  6. Знаки отличия командования флотом

Знаки различия командования флотом также, вероятно, добавили путаницы, потому что мы видим, как коммодор Мэтт Декер носит его, когда командует USS Constellation (« Машина судного дня »). Как коммодор, Декер является флагманом, а « Созвездие» - его флагманом. Он единственный флагман, которого мы видим в постоянном командовании звездолета, поэтому он носит знак командования флотом, чтобы обозначить его уникальный статус.

Во всех других сериалах и фильмах «Звездный путь» знак различия является универсальным, независимо от должности.

Исходная серия [ править ]

Оригинальный дизайн униформы был разработан дизайнером Уильямом Уэром Тайссом . Первоначальная униформа серии состояла из цветного верха и темных штанов, со значительными различиями между дизайном, используемым в пилотных эпизодах и остальной части серии.

Пилоты [ править ]

Первая форма, показанная в непроветренном пилотном фильме « Клетка » (кадры были повторно использованы в более позднем эпизоде ​​« Зверинец ») и снова во втором пилотном эпизоде « Где никто не ушел раньше », несколько отличается от Униформа Звездного Флота в остальной части оригинальной серии. Оригинальная концепция использовала тяжелую, ребристый черепаха шею воротник те же цветов, что и туники для мужчин, с обтекателем изменением шеи для женщин, каждые в трех цветах: золото, бежевый ( «песок»), и светло - голубой.

Офицеры первого пилота « Звездного пути» , «Клетка», носили единственную золотую полосу на рукаве, и в диалоге использовались только офицерские звания «лейтенант» и «капитан». «Вождь» также был виден, но с другой полосой на рукаве, состоящей из двух тонких линий, окружающих манжету, с волнистой золотой линией, проходящей над и под этими линиями. Персонажи, которых называли «членами экипажа», не носили нарукавных знаков различия. В первом пилоте униформа также включала серые куртки с серебряными полосами на рукавах, которые носили на выездных миссиях и были идентичны мужчинам и женщинам, и дополнительную серую кепку. Во втором пилотном эпизоде ​​«Куда ни один мужчина не уходил» большинство офицеров снова носили одинарную нашивку; Капитан Джеймс Т. Кирк носил две нашивки.

Индикаторы ранга, используемые в пилотах и ​​в основной серии, различались, потому что создатель Джин Родденберри и дизайнер гардероба Уильям Уэр Тайсс еще не разработали последовательную систему маркировки указателей звания офицера на форме. Это они сделали после того, как второй пилотный сериал «Где ни один человек не ушел раньше» преуспел в продаже сериала.

Звездный путь: Оригинальный сериал [ править ]

Униформа в мини-юбке
Примеры униформы из оригинальной серии

Первоначальным материалом униформы был велюр . Его использовали в первый и второй сезоны, потому что он был дешевым и простым в уходе, но он сжимался после химчистки и легко рвался. В третьем сезоне ее заменили нейлоновой тканью, используемой в профессиональной бейсбольной форме.  Мужчины носили рубашки разного цвета с темно-серыми брюками, которые на камеру [2] казались черными .

В то время как два пилотных эпизода изображают женщин в брюках, большинство женщин-сотрудников Звездного Флота носят более откровенные костюмы по запросу NBC; Грейс Ли Уитни предложила мини-юбки . Уильям Шатнер заметил, что « Звездный путь» , «к признанию всех мужчин на съемочной площадке, фактически во всем мире, может похвастаться самыми короткими юбками для женщин из всех регулярных телесериалов». [3] Женщины носили платья длиной до мини-юбки (из тех же материалов и цветов, что и рубашки) с короткими шортами и темными колготками. Черные сапоги носили оба пола. Нишель Николс не считала мини-юбки необычно короткими или откровенными:

Я носил их на улице. Что плохого в том, чтобы носить их в прямом эфире? Я носил их в самолетах. Это была эпоха мини-юбок . Все были в мини-юбках. [4]

В определенных случаях персонажи носили парадную форму ( TOS: впервые показано в « Зверинце », а затем использовалось в « Военном трибунале », « Космическое семя », « Путешествие на Вавилон » и «Дикий занавес»), которые сделаны из более блестящей ткани, предположительно из полиэстера, атласа, и украшены золотым кантом и цветными значками, которые различаются в зависимости от ранга. В парадной форме Монтгомери Скотта , особенно в « Диком занавесе », есть шотландский тартан . В частности, это тартан клана Скотт , одного из старейших кланов Шотландии.[ необходима цитата ]Комбинезоны того же цвета с черными майками также носили, в основном, персонажи заднего плана.

Начиная с первого эпизода регулярного сериала « Человек-ловушка », цвета отделов были немного изменены по сравнению с пилотными версиями: командирский и рулевой персонал носят золотые рубашки; эксплуатационный, инженерный и охранный персонал носит красное; а научный и медицинский персонал носит синий цвет, все с черными воротниками и майками. [примечания 1] Наиболее часто используемые рубашки Командной секции были на самом деле зеленовато-зеленого цвета, но они казались золотисто-желтыми как при освещении, используемом на съемочной площадке, так и при пост-проявочной пленке. В более поздних сериях золотой цвет был канонизирован в диалоге. Тем не менее, некоторые формы - альтернативные рубашки, которые носил капитан Кирк, и парадная форма командного отделения - были сделаны из другого материала, который, хотя и был одного цвета, выглядел зеленым даже при свете и на фотографиях. [5] [6] [примечания 2] Зеленые рубашки (видно в TOS : « Проблема с Tribbles », « Чарли X » и « Синдром иммунитета»).") может иметь полосы на рукавах или воротнике ( TOS :" The Enemy Within ") и всегда иметь нашивку назначения Enterprise рядом с талией в качестве застежки на поясе.

Полосы ранга вокруг манжет по-прежнему использовались для обозначения ранга, хотя было введено больше уровней, чтобы различать ранги и, таким образом, идентифицировать персонажей. Для большинства символов использовалось два типа полос: сплошная и пунктирная; дизайн сплошной полосы, кажется, повторяет дизайн «главной» полосы из «The Cage». Капитан Кирк носил две сплошные полосы с пунктирной полосой между ними, командиры (такие как Спок) носили две полосы, лейтенант-коммандеры (такие как Скотт и Маккой) носили одну сплошную полосу и одну точечную полосу, лейтенанты (такие как Ухура и Сулу) , а также многие второстепенные персонажи) носили одну полосу, в то время как прапорщики (такие как Чехов и бесчисленное множество второстепенных персонажей) и весь военнослужащий не имели полос вообще. Лишь однажды там было указано звание младшего лейтенанта: одиночная пунктирная полоса.Коммодоры , если смотреть на них, носили широкую золотую тесьму с золотой полосой сверху и снизу, но флагманы не имели собственной особой формы.

Частые смерти сотрудников службы безопасности в красной форме привели к появлению популярного термина « красная рубашка ».

Звездный путь: мультсериал [ править ]

Основываясь на успехе и растущей популярности « Звездного пути» в синдикации, с 1973 по 1974 год производилась анимационная версия сериала. Униформа, изображенная в этом сериале, соответствовала общим параметрам и внешнему виду той, что использовалась в сериале с живыми боевиками. Восприятие фанатами командной формы желто-золотой вместо зеленой, благодаря установленному освещению и другим факторам, привело к тому, что продюсеры выбрали окончательный золотой цвет для анимационных целей. Форма командирской одежды оставалась зеленой, чтобы соответствовать воспринимаемым цветам, представленным в сериале живых выступлений. Тем не менее, штаны униформы были окрашены в серый цвет, чтобы соответствовать фактической ткани, используемой в сериалах, в отличие от черных, которыми они казались во время съемок.

Оригинальная франшиза фильма [ править ]

Первоначальные планы относительно прерванного телесериала Star Trek: Phase II предполагали сохранение униформы TOS, но когда проект стал Star Trek: The Motion Picture , она была заменена новым дизайном. [7] Роберт Флетчер продолжил эту систему, когда разработал униформу для Star Trek: The Motion Picture .

Кинофильм [ править ]

В фильме есть несколько стилей униформы, включая цельные комбинезоны, подходящую рубашку и брюки, а также туники с пуговицами или поясом на талии. Все варианты формы включают туфли («покрышки для ног»), встроенные в брюки. У некоторых униформ короткие рукава, у других - длинные, с воротником-стойкой, v-образным вырезом или оборотным воротником. Униформа бывает серого, белого, серого и белого, синего, коричневого и бежевого цветов.

На « Энтерпрайзе» острие стрелки по-прежнему остается символом для всех сотрудников, но удлиненная звезда заменяет круг и овал научного отдела, а также шестигранную спираль технического отдела. Подразделения или назначения секций обозначены цветным кружком за стрелкой, а не самим однородным цветом: красный - для инженерного дела, бледно-зеленый - для медицины, оранжевый - для науки, белый - для командования, бледно-золотой - для операций и серый - для безопасности.

Большинство униформ в первом фильме также включены заметное «perscan» (сокращенно на Сонал сканирования нер) устройства медицинского контроля, упомянутые в Джин Родденберри новеллизации The Motion Picture, которая появляется на форме в том месте , где можно было бы ожидать чтобы увидеть пряжку ремня.

Ранг обозначается тесьмой на длинных рукавах или погонах, идентичной ТОС . Однако в отличие от сериала указывается новое звание прапорщика в виде пунктирной тесьмы вокруг рукавов и на погонах; в ТОСе не было никаких указателей звания прапорщиков. У унтер-офицеров полый золотой квадратик на погонах, но не на рукавах. Показаны новые знаки различия адмиралов в виде трех сплошных кос, расположенных рядом, за которыми следует еще одна сплошная коса с 8-конечной звездой на погонах. Полос меньше, чем на форме ВМС США, потому что четыре полосы для капитана выглядели бы «слишком милитаристскими» [8]. отражая настойчивость Родденберри в том, что роль Звездного Флота явно не предполагалась как военная.

Охранники носят белую форму с коричневыми касками и нагрудниками. Инженеры носят толстые белые скафандры с большими черными воротниками в рубчик.

In The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Susan Sackett and Gene Roddenberry wrote that the uniforms were redesigned because the bright colors of the 1960s original, so vibrant on television, would distract viewer attention on the big screen. The designs proved unpopular with their wearers, and when he took over as producer of the motion pictures, Harve Bennett ordered the uniforms redesigned because he did not want "an all-gray crew on an all-gray ship."[9]


Films IIGenerations[edit]

Uniform exemplar from The Wrath of Khan on display at Star Trek: The Experience

Fletcher redesigned the costumes for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. This design is used in the following movies, up to Star Trek Generations, and variations appear in some flashback scenes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager. In this version, Starfleet officers wear rank insignia on the shoulder strap and left sleeve just above the armband. A service bar is worn just below the sleeve rank pin, denoting how long the officer has served in Starfleet in five-year and ten-year increments.

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. 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. Characters also wear a black belt with a buckle shaped like the Starfleet arrowhead in a circle, complete with TOS command star.

Departments are indicated by the color of the shoulder strap, arm band, and undershirt, rather than insignia.[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. All officer uniforms have a division colored stripe on the trousers or skirt that matches the shoulder strap and service bar, except for command branch, whose stripes are red, rather than white. Instead of the foot coverings built into the trousers, this uniform design had black boots whose uppers were eight or ten inches high. This costume was nicknamed "The Monster Maroon" uniform because of the difficulty fans often encountered duplicating it.[citation needed]

The Starfleet insignia as seen in the second through seventh Star Trek films

An alternate "bomber" jacket was worn by Kirk and Scott, as well as Admiral Morrow (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier). In later years Scotty would often remove the jacket altogether, simply wearing a black vest, with numerous pockets useful for an engineer, with his undershirt. Scotty's undershirt itself is inconsistent - he wears a white shirt (consistent with his rank of Captain) with the vest or bomber, but a gold one (used by Engineering crew) with his formal duty tunic.

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). The engineering radiation suits have a colored collar (Star Trek II): black indicates officer, red indicates cadet. There is also a field jacket for away missions with several large pockets, arm patches, white ribbing and a large white turnover collar. Starfleet cadets in The Wrath of Khan wear the same uniforms as officers, but with bright red undershirts and a red shoulder strap instead of one indicating department.

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. Enlisted trainees wear the same uniform, except with a red undershirt instead of a black one. (Star Trek II).

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 Next Generation[edit]

Star Trek: The Next Generation[edit]

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. 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"). The division colors for command and operations switched from those used in Enterprise and TOS while the division color for science stayed the same. In early episodes some crew members can be seen wearing a tunic version of the uniform with bare legs and boots ("skant").

Beverly Crusher often wears a blue laboratory coat over her standard uniform, beginning in TNG: "The Naked Now." The lab coat was primarily developed to hide Gates McFadden's pregnancy. The blue tended to appear teal under certain lighting conditions in the later seasons and subsequent spinoffs. 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. 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. The removable gear pouches were also incorporated into the uniforms used in DS9 and the TNG-era films from First Contact onward.

We hated our space suits. There were no pockets in them. As much as they call it a stretch fabric, spandex in that configuration doesn't give all that much. It hid nothing.

LeVar Burton, on the first two seasons' uniforms[11]

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. 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.[12] The wool uniforms, which most main cast members wear from the third season onward, are two-piece (tunic and pants) designs that lack colored piping on the shoulders and edges of the pant leg cuffs and have a raised collar. The collar of the tunic has a colored piping similar to that of the original diamond-shaped shoulder piping. The spandex uniforms continued to make appearances throughout TNG, usually worn by extras in various scenes. These were later altered to lack the piping on the shoulders and trouser hems and include a raised collar as a cost-cutting measure.

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.

The TNG dress uniform, which continued to be used in Deep Space Nine and Voyager, is a colored wraparound robe-like coat of a solid division color, save for black shoulders. The edges of the coats are piped in silver for field officers and in gold for flag officers.

Other uniform designs appeared briefly in individual episodes, always following the theme of a colored or differentiated shoulder yoke. Examples include cadet uniforms in several episodes (including "The First Duty"). Wesley Crusher's 'Acting Ensign' gray costume was never specifically identified as a uniform, but it also exhibited a shoulder yoke design.

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. The costumes adopted from season 3 onward and later series' costumes were designed by Robert Blackman.

TNG, DS9, Voyager captain insignia

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. After the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a consistent scheme is also used for admiral insignia: a series of gold circles inside a black rectangle with a gold border worn on both collars.[10]

For the first season of TNG, admirals wear a different insignia, consisting of a triangle or stripe resembling gold weave along the right collar; one or two gold pips are sometimes underneath the weave. Three variants are visible in "Conspiracy": Admiral Quinn's insignia has no pips, Admiral Savar's has one, and Admiral Aaron's has two.

A Starfleet insignia is worn on the left breast: this also functions as a communicator badge. 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.[13] This new combadge is also used in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from season three onward, and in Star Trek: Voyager.

Cadet ranks are rarely ever seen, with the exception of the various visits from Wesley Crusher to the Enterprise in TNG. 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. 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.

Enlisted ranks are seen even less; their insignia are unclear.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine[edit]

Deep Space Nine introduced a new style of uniform that appeared to run in parallel to the one seen on TNG. 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. The division colors use the same TNG scheme, though the science division is now blue-green. A grayish-indigo mock turtleneck undershirt was added, to which rank pips are affixed. The characters of Major Kira and Odo did not wear Starfleet uniforms, as they were part of the Bajoran militia. Throughout the run of DS9, ship-based Starfleet personnel continue to wear the older uniform design. 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"). Admirals also retained the TNG style. A uniform similar to that appearing in the DS9 series can be seen in the TNG Season 3 episode "Allegiance", worn by the alien masquerading as a Starfleet cadet. 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".

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, 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".

Star Trek Generations[edit]

New uniforms were designed and made for the film Star Trek Generations, but were abandoned at the last minute. These included a fastening on the right side of the chest and a slightly more militaristic approach with rank bandings on the sleeves and a colored collar and the lack of a black "W" shape on the abdomen. The costumes for the female crew-members were different - instead of the additional fastening, there was a higher than previously seen black band around the waist. Nonetheless, Playmates Toys released a number of action figures wearing these planned uniforms. 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. 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. [14]

As the film progresses, some characters can alternate between the TNG and DS9 uniforms and sometimes switch back to the old TNG uniforms (for instance, Picard switched back to the TNG uniform in the film's last scene). This would act as an introduction of the new design as standard shipboard wear for Star Trek: Voyager.

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 combadge was subsequently adopted for DS9 (at the beginning of its third season) and Star Trek: Voyager.

Star Trek: Voyager[edit]

The crew in Star Trek: Voyager use the same uniforms seen in the early episodes of Deep Space Nine throughout the show's run. Because they were stuck in the Delta Quadrant and out of contact with Starfleet, the Voyager crew never made the switch to the updated uniform seen in later DS9 episodes and in the last three TNG films; they continued to use the old DS9 uniforms, although in the episode "Message in a Bottle" the EMH mark II is wearing the later DS9/movie gray TNG uniform. 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. The crew also wears the TNG-style dress uniforms (VOY: "Course: Oblivion", "Someone to Watch Over Me", "One Small Step", "Ashes to Ashes").[12]

B'Elanna Torres is sometimes seen wearing an overcoat over her normal uniform which matches the colors of her normal uniform, but has a pocket on the right breast for carrying small tools. The jacket was used in an attempt to hide actress Roxann Dawson's pregnancy. She wore it again when her character became pregnant, beginning in the episode "Q2".

Voyager provisional Captain insignia

Voyager used the new-style combadge and introduced 'provisional' rank insignia which consisted of a gold-metal-bordered enamel oval in the crewman's Branch color with diagonal black or gold bars to signify rank instead of the traditional pips. Provisional ranks were worn by the Maquis members of Voyager's crew, as they were ineligible to wear official Starfleet ranks. All ranks up to Captain appeared on screen; The Star Trek Encyclopedia showed them all to be analogous to the normal rank system.[10] A black diagonal bar is equal to a black pip and a gold diagonal bar is equal to a gold pip. (e.g.: a yellow-enamel oval with one black bar and two gold bars signifies a Lieutenant-Commander in Operations, which is normally signified by one black pip and two gold pips.)

The crew aboard the USS Equinox also use the same uniforms seen in the early episodes of Deep Space Nine as they are also stuck in the Delta Quadrant and out of contact with Starfleet (VOY: "Equinox (Parts I and II)").

The 29th-century officers in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Relativity" wear chevron-like collar insignia (worn in a horizontal line like the pips and oriented pointing forwards towards the collar). Captain Braxton wears four gold chevrons (equivalent to four gold pips) and Lieutenant Ducane wears two gold chevrons (equivalent to two gold pips). 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. The tunics have a quilted fabric in branch color on the right shoulder and sleeve (Blue for Command, Olive Drab Brown for Operations, and Gray for Sciences) and branch-color piping on the edge of the shoulder yoke.

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. This was in the context of historical records that wrongly asserted that Voyager's crew had acted in a malign manner, until corrected by The Doctor, who was brought back to life 700 years in the future after a “relic” (containing a backup copy of his program) was discovered among wreckage and his program was recovered.[16]

Movies from Star Trek: First Contact on and later DS9 seasons[edit]

Star Trek: First Contact introduces a new uniform style later adopted in DS9 (DS9: "Rapture"). 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. Like the last two uniforms, the communicator badge is worn on the jacket, while rank pins are worn on the undertunic's collar. The pants are black. Star Trek: Insurrection also introduced a new dress uniform, consisting of a white jacket and black pants both with gold trim, a gray ribbed tunic (white tunic for flag officers and captains), and rank insignia on the collar of the tunic with the combadge worn in the customary location on the jacket. Unlike the previous uniform, it was the same color regardless of the wearer's division, save for colored bands on the lower sleeves like the standard uniform. It also appeared in the DS9 episode "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges". Captains also had the option of a more casual uniform vest of the same basic design, though the violet-gray extended much lower.

As depicted in Insurrection, a new admiral's duty uniform was shown, looking similar to those worn by officers, and yet containing markers to set it apart from the ordinary. 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. The jacket also has gold edging. 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.

Ancillary uniform[edit]

Starfleet personnel fighting in ground battles appear in the DS9 episodes "...Nor the Battle to the Strong" and "The Siege of AR-558". They wear one-piece black uniforms with divisional stripes across the chest.

Alternative timelines[edit]

In the TNG episode "All Good Things...", an alternate timeline showed a uniform with the full color shirt (including shoulders). 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. These uniforms would also make an appearance in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Visitor" and the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Endgame". These episodes also included a new combadge design where the starfleet arrow was just an outline surrounded by two gold vertical bars. This badge was also worn by Geordi La Forge in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Timeless" but on the gray shoulder uniform used in the last three TNG movies and the later episodes of Deep Space Nine.[17]

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.

Variations in uniforms and insignia are occasionally used as plot devices in the various series. In the episode "Future Imperfect", the insignia are slightly altered so as to convince a character that 16 years have passed. In the episode, "Parallels", variations in uniforms and insignia suggest a meeting of characters from different parallel universes.

Prequel era[edit]

Star Trek: Enterprise[edit]

Sailors of the Year for the year 2001 in Enterprise uniforms with members of the cast. Photo courtesy of US Navy

In Enterprise, field officers and crewmembers wear duty uniforms consisting of a dark long-sleeved undershirt and blue jumpsuit with colored piping around the shoulders and, occasionally, baseball caps. There is also a desert uniform with khaki pants and white shirt. 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. Enterprise, set before all other incarnations, did not include characters who hold the ranks of lieutenant commander or lieutenant, junior grade. The highest-ranking admiral seen wears two sets of three-pip insignia.

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. Throughout the series, men and women wear the same type of uniform. Unlike the other series' uniforms, standard uniforms on Enterprise include zip-up pockets, and the undershirt is buttoned at the neck - while Gene Roddenberry had explicitly forbidden such devices as buttons and zippers on Starfleet uniforms, believing they would be obsolete in the future, designer Bob Blackman consciously used them as a way of dating the series, implying that closures Roddenberry envisioned had not been invented yet. 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]

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.

Rank insignia on duty uniforms are worn on right side of shoulders only, but rank insignia on dress uniforms are worn on both sides.

Also, there are two different kinds of field jackets worn on away missions. They have zippered pockets and the same colored pipings as the jumpsuits, as well as cold weather gear, pressure suits, spacesuits, an EV undersuit, and a royal blue undergarment with slight differences on male and female garments.

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. The only times she wears the uniform is in the episode "Twilight" (featuring an alternate timeline) and briefly (as a disguise) in "Hatchery".

Star Trek: Discovery[edit]

In 2017's Star Trek: Discovery, set ten years prior to Star Trek: The Original Series, the uniform underwent another redesign. Like its Enterprise predecessor, a blue uniform was worn, with a shirt-trouser combination with a single collar on the left side. A large zipper fastens the front of the shirt, and pants pockets have zippers as well. Repeating patterns of tiny delta insignias ran down the sides of the uniforms, its colors denoting the wearer's division. The classic yellow, blue, red combination was eschewed in favor of gold, silver and copper for command, sciences and operations respectively. Ranks were embedded onto the Starfleet Delta, along with gold shoulder stripes for captains and shoulder stripes plus gold shoulder markings for admirals, and following the same standard as Star Trek: The Next Generation style rank insignias.[21]

"Reboot" films[edit]

J.J. Abrams' Star Trek series takes place in a parallel universe called the "Kelvin timeline".

Star Trek (2009 film)[edit]

The 2009 Star Trek film features uniforms reminiscent of the original television series but with some cosmetic changes. The badge (already the logo of the full Starfleet instead of specific to the Enterprise) is now a pin rather than sewn on and comes in silver-metal for officers and gold-metal for admirals. The tops are now in two layers: a wide-collared colored over-shirt (gold, blue, or red just 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. The over-shirt has the division delta badge shape printed onto the fabric providing a textured appearance. Rank is indicated by 1 to 4 silver metallic-cloth bands worn above the overshirt's cuffs (1 for lieutenants, 2 for commanders, 3 for captains, and 4 for flag officers).

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). Also, a number of women onboard can be seen wearing the long sleeve top and pants uniform similar to those worn in "The Cage". Unlike other Trek, this uniform is worn only aboard starships - other personnel wear black one-piece uniforms of a much more "military" appearance. In an unexplained change from previous series, many female crew members wear nail polish (Uhura wears black polish, while many extras wear red).

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. 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. 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).

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013 film)[edit]

The uniforms in the second J. J. Abrams Star Trek film are developed further. The formal 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. A more informal uniform jumpsuit is worn at various points by several characters (including Kirk and Scotty). These jumpsuits have high collars and are made of a dark gray fabric, with triangles of transparent plastic at the collarbones which show the color of the officer's regular uniform shirt beneath.

The personnel on the USS Vengeance wear a different duty uniform from the norm. It consists of black trousers and undershirt, with a quilted blue overshirt with long black sleeves and black cloth epaulets. This might either be the uniform of a private armed security or military contractor company hired by Marcus through Section 31 or the duty uniform for Section 31 itself (the blue indicating its Research & Development wing). 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; this might be[weasel words] the duty uniform insignia for a Commodore.

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. 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. There are other ranks mentioned in the movies (Kirk himself is offered the rank of Vice-Admiral in Star Trek: Beyond). If the rank scheme is similar to NATO ranks they would be: Commodores wear 1 paired gold pip, Rear Admirals wear 2 paired gold pips, Vice-Admirals wear 3 paired gold pips, and Admirals wear 4 paired gold pips. 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.

Other publications[edit]

Some licensed Star Trek publications present some insignia that contradict the ones shown on screen or in other publications. For example, the second and third editions of The Star Trek Encyclopedia offer differing insignia for various Starfleet ranks.[22] Additionally, some Star Trek publications, including officially licensed ones, posit additional ranks that are not seen or mentioned in live-action productions.

See also[edit]

  • United States Navy officer rank insignia

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "The Man Trap"
  2. ^ "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

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External links[edit]

  • Starfleet uniform at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)