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The awful stiff band uniform fabric may have been the saving grace of those uniforms. I watched TMP again the other night, and paid special attention to the uniforms in that movie. I've been puzzled for awhile now because the illustrations of those uniforms on Spike's website (which I assume came from a Fact Files or Communicator or something) make them look just fine. It's only live, on screen, that they suck so bad. Why?
After the other night, I'm thinking that a big part of the answer might be the thin, flimsy fabric that they used. It hung limply, hems fluttered...whatever they used had no substance to it. I find myself wondering what they would look like if made out of a different material.
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I hated wearing those marching band uniforms
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Subject change though, but still talking about Starfleet uniforms: The DS9 episode were Jake and Bashir on the planet together and the Klingons are attacking and at in the end Jake sort of saves the day byh caving the hospital roof, those black uniforms with the branch color stripe, they have been mentioned in some books, who would wear those, Starfleet Marines or quote unquote the Feddie Army. Opinions of this and equipment that they would wear. I say this because the Feddie soldier that Jake met was kinda stingily equiped.
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The uniforms were cool but yes, you'd think they'd have more gear. I seem to remember someone over at the ASAP Trek costumes board discussing re-creating the field uniforms, must see if anything ever came of that. . .
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I the Battle of Batazed novel, one of those many books that is considered canon, Vaughn discusses equipment on these uniforms, especially the weapons.
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That episode of DS9 was just on, and I was struck by how rigid the fabric on that soldier's uniform looked where it had been torn. Now, possibly (probably) that was just supposed to look like it had been charred, or soaked with blood and then dried, seeing as how it was surrounding a rather large wound, but it kind of looked like body armor to me. Perhaps those uniforms are built to undergo a chemical/physical reaction when hit by an energy weapon, dispersing some of its energy. Not enough to keep a person integrated, as it were (GET IT?), but perhaps enough to keep a glancing wound serious instead of fatal? In the same way a helmet is for shrapnel vs. someone aiming right at your head.
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quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: Or, in a stressful situation, you just want one less thing choking you around the neck.
But undoing the flap doesn't affect your neck in anyway, since the collar is still there. Fair point about the heat thing though. I remember Tim Russ describing the movie uniforms as being hot and heavy while shooting "Flashback".
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While turtlenecks are certainly an acquired taste, there is a difference between heavy stiff band-uniform fabric at your throat, and soft fuzzy cashmere at your throat...
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Yeah, the tubas complain about the weight of their sousaphones, but with them its sitting directly over them. I marched trumpet, so I had it relatively easy.
Liam, true, but I was talking about in cases where the neck of the coat also fits rather snuggly around the neck (and adding to the pressure around the neck that the turtleneck creates). However, I do have to cede the point since, after looking at pictures of the uniforms, it looks like the coats fit rather loosely around the neck.
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quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: Yeah, the tubas complain about the weight of their sousaphones,
Wait, why are tubas carrying sousaphones? That's terribly confusing.
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