T O P I C ��� R E V I E W
|
CaptainMike
Member # 709
|
posted
I noticed this a few years ago.. in the last scene of 'Farpoint', Tasha Yar was wearing one of the TNG miniskirt uniforms. Im thinknig this scene was probably shot first before the decided to put her in a pants uniform? Probably not the best thread starter, but i found it interesting to notice
|
Siegfried
Member # 29
|
posted
All the times I've watched "Encounter at Farpoint" I have had a feeling that something about Yar's uniform wasn't right. It never dawned on me that she had been raiding Troi's closet before "The Naked Now." I don't know if this scene was shot last, but I agree with the decision to keep Yar in a typical duty uniform. As the security chief, she'd probably be flashing all of the people behind her. Plus, active security people have this aura around them that shouts utility. I'd think the typical uniform would be better from a combat standpoint than the miniskirt.
|
CaptainMike
Member # 709
|
posted
I liked the cutesy idea that, since there was so much equality in the 24th, some guys wore the skirts too (called 'skants') i saw them a lot up until '11001001' i think, then they mercifully got rid of them for everybody (although Pulaski wore a version of one over pants for season 2)
|
Siegfried
Member # 29
|
posted
I couldn't stand those skirt/skant uniforms at all for either gender. There's always the risk of something being exposed when the ship shudders or if you're on Away missions. How many times didn't we see Uhura's underwear on TOS when the bridge shook?For a while, I wondered if the costume designers were ever going to bring them back during TNG's run. If they did, I was hoping that it'd come out in a two piece combination (those look too much like nightgowns). A tunic and a longer skirt version or a tunic and a pair of utility shorts would be the best way to bring it back.
|
NightWing
Member # 4
|
posted
Well, I found it a bit odd that several males had a skirt instead of pants, unless they kept with Scottish tradition.
|
Jack_Crusher
Member # 696
|
posted
Maybe those guys *liked* wearing those women's shirts, and nobody gave a second thought to it. Besides, humanity alledgedly has gotten over such silly notions as racial and sexual predjudice.
|
akb1979
Member # 557
|
posted
I read somewhere years ago that the uniforms were for either gender - so men could wear skirts or trousers and vice-versa. I would not, however, like to have seen Picard, Riker or Worf in one of the skirts!
|
TSN
Member # 31
|
posted
But Worf looks good in a dress, remember? :-)
|
PsyLiam
Member # 73
|
posted
As noted in the nitpickers guides, the seventh season dress uniforms really didn't look like dresses. The top part wasn't really longer than the jacket of a suit. The second season dress uniforms though did look like skirts (especially since the trousers worn at that time looked like opaque tights).
|
David Templar
Member # 580
|
posted
Think the uniforms in ST:TMP.'nuff said.
|
AndrewR
Member # 44
|
posted
I think it was just an excuse (the TMP uniforms) for William Shatner to get his penis up on a 12" high screen - without it being a porn film! ;o)
|
Balaam Xumucane
Member # 419
|
posted
Quote: I think it was just an excuse (the TMP uniforms) for William Shatner to get his penis up on a 12" high screen - without it being a porn film!
Whew a, twelve inch high screen. Damn, that's... not really very flattering. 'Course the 12 foot screen wasn't really either...
|
Hobbes
Member # 138
|
posted
First season TNG had a lot of...gay designs. I can't remember the ep name, but it had a bunch of guys wearing tiny white outfits that barely covered their... stuff.
|
Malnurtured Snay
Member # 411
|
posted
"Justice"It also had a lot of hot girls wearing just as scanty outfits. Not to mention the implication that Tasha got busy with some of those guys.
|
Aban Rune
Member # 226
|
posted
Dang, Denise Crosby is hot. She seems to have nice lookin' arms too. Got a bigger picture of that?I didn't think the skant uniforms were all that badly designed...I did think they looked stupid on the men, though. Thank the good lord that Wesley never one.... *shudders*
|
PsyLiam
Member # 73
|
posted
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.
|
Malnurtured Snay
Member # 411
|
posted
Why wouldn't you? The alien badguy sneaks a look, and you get an opportunity to shoot him.
|
Aban Rune
Member # 226
|
posted
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.
|
CaptainMike
Member # 709
|
posted
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
|
AndrewR
Member # 44
|
posted
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)
|
PsyLiam
Member # 73
|
posted
"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?)
|
CaptainMike
Member # 709
|
posted
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.
|
TSN
Member # 31
|
posted
If that's the case, I guess there's something about Uhura we never knew...
|
PsyLiam
Member # 73
|
posted
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).
|
AndrewR
Member # 44
|
posted
OMG! LOL! I am lauging out loud here - I think everyone else in the house think's I mad! LOL!Uhura freeballing etc. LOL!
|
Michael_T
Member # 144
|
posted
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?
|