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I apologise. This just seems to be a large case of over-reacting to me. I just can't see a good reason to compleatly reject the game over pre-production images.
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Simple. The inductive thought chain runs something like this: "If they did that bad a job on something as seemingly simple as uniforms, how badly are they going to rape the rest of the premise/concept/universe?" with a subtext of "Did they do this out of ignorance (bad enough) or deliberate disregard (a.k.a. 'Bragaism�' -- very, very bad)?
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Aside from the fact that from a costume designer's point-of-view, I think they're ass, they also don't fit too well between the First Contact-style uniforms of the 2370s and the "All Good Things..."-style uniforms of the 2400s.
I call it "intellectual laziness". Rather than see what he could do to create more variation (and customizationable-ness) within the established uniforms of the era in question, he started from scratch and who cares if there was already something there. *pff* Storytelling using that same approach is what turned me off to Enterprise -- rather than figure out a way around the continuity problems, the execs just stuck their fingers in their ears and said 'la-la-la' really loudly.
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Because, obviously both Enterprise and this game should be treating minor continuity points as their highest priority.
(It's 2001 all again! Woo!)
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maybe they'll call it "alternative ST universe", but who cares, this is not the Roddenberry's future vision, it's war, it brings more profits (do they really think so, maybe they do, after DS9) let's change everything from the beginning.
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Not everyone is a costume designer though. Just because they made one bad choice, doesn't mean they will make more. Besides, a game is made by many people, the guys responcible for the costumes will likely have little to do with the gameplay.
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"...they also don't fit too well between the First Contact-style uniforms of the 2370s and the 'All Good Things...'-style uniforms of the 2400s."
Of course, the FC uniforms didn't fit too well between the TNG or DS9 uniforms and the AGT uniforms. But, hey, who's counting?
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Point to you. I still haven't warmed to the FC uniforms and their derivatives. Actually, I prefer what we've seen of the "All Good Things...", "The Visitor", and "Endgame" era's uniforms (although I'd prefer better tailoring).
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I never watched an episode of TNG after it was clear their blasphemous switching of red and gold indicated a deep hatred of everything Star Trek stands for.
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Errr....so when was that exactly? Sometime in seventh season?
It might be possible to tone-down these comic book costumes into functional uniforms, but it really loses a lot of the Trek "feel" that is the real lure to the games (as exploring and making first contacts, then setteling endless squabbles and border disputes would probably not be a big hit with the onling gaming community).
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