Dark Horizions is reporting that the uniforms for Enterprise will be purple with yellow stripes around the shoulder and some type of badge.
Does anybody else think that is a really bad choice? I mean purple isn't a colour that I normally associate with the military and really seems out of place.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Oldish news, but no-one's commented here about it yet, so fair enough.
Anyway, purple is quite possibly a color with more distinct shades than any other, from plum to indigo to maroon to violet to lilac. And some are dreadfully insipid. And some are damn cool.
Other rumours have said division-specific piping on the shoulders, which seems to work with the gold being where it is... if this is based on Archer's uniform then I guess command is back at the TOS gold. Nicely done, Mr. Blackman!
Of course, the same rumours had said blue uniforms, so if both are correct, it's possible that the jumpsuits are a very bluish purple (indigo?) throughout which different people might call blue or purple. Another possibility is having them contain a mixture of blue and purple panels.
Personally, both of those possibilities are quite cool IMO. Boring old blue or navy-colored jumpsuits have been done to death by Hollywood and real-world militaries, and aren't too distinctive, so tinting them slightly away from the conventional military look will give the show a more unique and futuristic look. And monotone unforms are a real no-no, so if the only division-specific coloration are a few little strips, having a multicolored unform body is another good thing. Blue and purple can work well, again provided it's a good-looking purple.
So, yeah, I'm reasonably positive about purple. That said, Barney-purple or something lilac would be dreadful. I'm cool with maroons and plums and indigos. Hopefully Mr. Blackman, who IMHO has yet to do a bad uniform, will pull through.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I have to agree with The_Tom. Purple has a lot of wonderful shades that could work well as uniforms. Maroon and plum would be excellent colors. Of course, my high school marching band uniform was a very classy maroon shade.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
The only purple I can think of that I would want to see would be a light one, very very close to blue...
Posted by Masao (Member # 232) on :
Sound like Laker fans or maybe Viking fans (either way, originally from Minnesota)
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
"The only purple I can think of that I would want to see would be a light one, very very close to blue..."
Actually, that would have precendent. Look at the TNG colours. They are all slightly off from being normal. The command being almost-red, medical being almost-blue, and the rest being that colour that has been called gold, green, yellow, mustard, and about 50,000 other ones.
So, we're going to end with almost-purple. Hmm.
Posted by Eclipse (Member # 472) on :
I was thinking more sort of imperial purple. You know, like the shade that Marcus Aurelius, Commodus and the Praetorian Guard were shown wearing in Gladiator.
Posted by targetemployee (Member # 217) on :
Funny that. In the days of Rome, the color purple was a dye made from a shellfish's oil that lived along the Israeli coast. Terrible thing though-the poor creatures were harvested to death so that a few people could look cooler than the rest of the population.
Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :
First thing we have to do is find out more about Employee's background so we know how to defeat him later, should he use his arcane knowlegde against the forces of good.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
That's not so arcane. I knew it. It's even where the word "purple" derived from: "purpura", the name of the creatures in question.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Ha! That's nothing. I know from what the colour orange was derived.
Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
...the fruit?
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Does ANY word rhyme with orange?
And don't say Lozenge
Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
Door hinge.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"Does ANY word rhyme with orange?"
"Door hinge."
Just barely...
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
"Orange" is one of the few non-rhymeable words in English.
Johnny Dean: "'Albania's hard to rhyme..." Stanley Motss: "You'll think of something." Johnny Dean: (singing & thinking)"'Albania, Albania'..." Stanley Motss: "That rhymes....!"
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Um, mania?
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Viva Espa�a? Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
There once was a girl from Albania, Who lived in a drug-induced mania. On biting a door hinge She said "Mmm, tastes like orange." And hopped on a train to Romania.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
No, that "orange"/"door hinge" still isn't working for me...
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
What the. . ? I KNOW I typed an 'n' - bloody Win2000 character map. . .
