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The only thing I would change about that admiral uniform is the zipper. I think it should have buttons. They try to make it look formal, but the zipper doesn't work in my opinion.
Like this admiral uniform from JAG.
Also be nice if they did 'winter blues' and 'summer whites' for admiral uniforms.
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If they're going to do that, why not just go the USN and ask to borrow some uniforms? They have to make it look different somehow...
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quote:I suspect many of the designers spent a fair amount of time going through old TOS eps
That's so interesting, because Admiral stripes didn't appear in any TOS episode. There's just one outtake (AFAIK), were you can see them.
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: If they're going to do that, why not just go the USN and ask to borrow some uniforms? They have to make it look different somehow...
Well since they've already copied it about 90% what's the point. My point is the zipper just doesn't look right. So instead of different good, it's different bad. That's just my opinion anyway.
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We've had ties for a long, long, time, and they've changed very little. Even though the things have never really had much of a purpose, it would IMHO be unrealistic for us to not have them in 150 years.
While Spike's discussing uniforms, BTW, I have an unrelated uniformish point for him: The other night "Relativity" re-ran, and I'm positive I saw a 29th century uniform with a red department colour in addition to the purple, green and orange. If anyone who's got it on tape wants to re-check, in the final scene where crazy-Braxton is under guard on the Relativity's bridge, there's a female guard who is definately wearing red... She's standing alongside two other gentlemen in orange, and its pretty clearly a different colour.
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The only TOS episode I have that features a member of the admiralty is "Court Martial". Commodore Stone clearly has sleeve-stripes as depicted in the Encyclopedia-2 as commodore insignia. Perhaps we never saw what any higher-up admirals wore, but Forrest's stripes do make me think more of the TOS stripes than modern-day ones.
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quote:Perhaps we never saw what any higher-up admirals wore
There were 3 admirals in TOS (Fitzpatrick, Komack, and Westervliet) but we never saw the sleeve stripes. But there's one outtake with Fitzpatrick and a tribble were you can see them and they are |[]| (in the USN it would be []|| ). And Forrest's stripes are also |[]|.
BTW: Does anyone have a picture of Westervliet? He appeared in TOS For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky.
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Well, I just captured a picture of him from my DVD, but the upload space that I-forget-who recently set up for Flare stuff is a bitch to upload to, so I can't get it online. Want me to e-mail it to you, or something?
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iMHO i like the Enterprise admirals' uniforms, even wit the tie....
i reckon the zipper is just there because its more 'modern' than a button.
perhaps the ties is just part of 'tradition' which eventually got phased out.....
if its been said before then i'm just reinforcing the idea.
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