Fashion on Deep space 9

Flashgordon197

Have recently began watching repeats on Sky and am again taken by the atrocious costume design. Garack who is supposedly a tailor looks like a hobo. The Bajorian uniforms are ok for the thin but if you ever come across a fatter soldier-they look like large pyjamas that reveal a lot of girth.

Bar starfleet they all look like something dreamed up by a guy who plays a lot of golf or dropped a huge amount of acid.

nyarlothothep

Yes I agree with this. Odo looked like a giant sh1t with his earth brown costume. He was meant to be head of station security and was wearing a brown one piece. How is that meant to signify authority. Ok in the 24th century people have evolved beyond authority blah blah blah, fine, but to a 20/21st century viewer the costume design is an abomination.

Flashgordon197

nyarlothothep wrote: »

Yes I agree with this. Odo looked like a giant sh1t with his earth brown costume. He was meant to be head of station security and was wearing a brown one piece. How is that meant to signify authority. Ok in the 24th century people have evolved beyond authority blah blah blah, fine, but to a 20/21st century viewer the costume design is an abomination.

All the Bajorian uniforms including his looked a bit Maoist .

Johnny Storm

Flashgordon197 wrote: »

...Dreamed up by a guy who plays a lot of golf or dropped a huge amount of acid.

Your saying that like its a bad thing.... ;-)

nyarlothothep

TOS would be the place to go for pyschedelic uniforms.

Cookie_Monster

DS9 was also interesting in that we saw for the first time(ish) some other races in civvies, Cardasians, Bajorans, Klingon (that chef guy), Ferengi without a head wrap. that kind of thing.

But yeah, some of the fashion on the show was criminal.
Jake Sisko wore some horrific pieces

Myrddin

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

DS9 was also interesting in that we saw for the first time(ish) some other races in civvies, Cardasians, Bajorans, Klingon (that chef guy), Ferengi without a head wrap. that kind of thing.

But yeah, some of the fashion on the show was criminal.
Jake Sisko wore some horrific pieces

Not so, the civvies on the planet Edo were quite interesting (TNG, S1E8)

Kojak

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

DS9 was also interesting in that we saw for the first time(ish) some other races in civvies, Cardasians, Bajorans, Klingon (that chef guy), Ferengi without a head wrap. that kind of thing.

It looked like most of them done their shopping at the one clothes shop. They all nearly looked like one another. Must have been a recession in the 24th century.

IvySlayer

I've always hated anything design related in DS9. The station and it's interiors are ugly. Only exceptions are the cool new uniforms and the Defiant.

Myrddin

IvySlayer wrote: »

I've always hated anything design related in DS9. The station and it's interiors are ugly. Only exceptions are the cool new uniforms and the Defiant.

I think DS9 is a thing of beauty :cool:

_Kaiser_

IvySlayer wrote: »

I've always hated anything design related in DS9. The station and it's interiors are ugly. Only exceptions are the cool new uniforms and the Defiant.

EnterNow wrote: »

I think DS9 is a thing of beauty :cool:

Ditto...

As for the uniforms.. hmmm I'd have to say late TNG/Wrath of Khan era for me.

Goldstein

I thought Quark had cool clothes.

I think this thread is too nerdy for even here.

Cookie_Monster

EnterNow wrote: »

I think DS9 is a thing of beauty :cool:

while that may be so it's an insanely stupid design for a space station come mining operation processing plant.

what's with all the wasted space throughout it and those ridiculous docking pylons, whose going to lug cargo up and down them to a ship...

it is of course due to Treks obsession with a 2d plane, all ships and station always in the same plane. Why not just have 3 or 4 docking rings offset from each other looping around the station as 45, 90 and 135 degrees from the vertical for example. but then ships would be at all sorts of funny angles...

AngryLips

Kojak wrote: »

It looked like most of them done their shopping at the one clothes shop. They all nearly looked like one another. Must have been a recession in the 24th century.

The Promenade isn't exactly Liffey Valley, in fairness. No H&M, no Penneys, no Topshop/Topman. The residents of DS9 were truly disadvantaged.

Myrddin

AngryLips wrote: »

The Promenade isn't exactly Liffey Valley

Gene Rodenberry's vision of a brighter future then didn't go to waste on Rick Berman it seems.