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They were impracitcal for the same reason that all short skirts are impractical. If you are the security chief on the flagship of the Federation, you don't want the Alien Badguy Of The Week seeing your knickers everytime you dived out of the way to avoid his phaser fire.
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Oh, I totally agree that they would've looked pretty silly on the security chief. They looked pretty silly as military-esque uniforms, period. But they were well designed otherwise. I thought they fit in well as a "Starfleet look"...at least the one they had in the first season of TNG.
But yah...seeing the regulars doing action scenes in them on a regular basis would've been kind of strange.
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But in the future do people care about people seeing their underwear? Gene was a very underwear minded guy...
The TOS skirts had built in short-shorts anyway, its not like they were letting everything blow in the breeze.. in sure that the TNG skirts would be sensible like that too
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Just trying to picture later uniforms and their version of skirts/skants.
"Resistance is Fut... woahh baby!"
"Resistance is futile, you biological and technological distinctivness (except for those skirts) will be added to our own."
I could just picture Sisko leaping out of his chair on the Defiant to bark orders at the crew, when he realises that his 'skant' was tucked into his underwear at the back ;o)
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"Why wouldn't you? The alien badguy sneaks a look, and you get an opportunity to shoot him."
For the same reason that Kira doesn't just flash her tits at a bad guy to distract him.
(Saying that, Betty Banner did do that in a PAD written issue of the Incredible Hulk. So SOME heroines will do it).
"But in the future do people care about people seeing their underwear? Gene was a very underwear minded guy..."
Of course, in the two pilots, the women wore trousers. I guess the short skirts was another "concession" he made to get the show on the air. The dirty old man.
"The TOS skirts had built in short-shorts anyway, its not like they were letting everything blow in the breeze."
And you didn't see Uhura's underwear every episode, did you? (At least it matched her uniforms. I wonder if all the crew had department-coded knickers?)
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The 'underwear' you saw was built into the skirt. Thats why it was the same color. Presumably she wore lacy-underthings beneath it. Or was freeballing.
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The fact that she had a trio of testicles would have been an interesting plot twist.
(You know, that joke works better if you say all the posts out loud).
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If I've said it once, I'll say it again...Uhura likes Fredricks of Hollywood!!!
For people who have seen the pictures of the drawings of possible TNG uniforms in the Art Of Star Trek; imagine instead of the skirts that we see a variation of the standard duty uniform with the long V-neckline that goes near your crotch...
Oh, and what about "Justice" and all those spandex loving people?
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