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2373-2394 : Page 3: standard uniform, continued

Thanks to Spike's Star Trek Page for the small scans on this page, from TOSTFF/ST:M, enhanced by me. Other scans, and screenshots, by Janet.
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These uniforms are introduced in 2373, and are first seen in [ST VIII: First Contact]. They are worn by all Starfleet personnel except for the USS Voyager crew who, until their return to the Alpha Quadrant at the end of 2377, instead continue to use the uniform variants introduced in 2369. See also Why USS Voyager's crew wear the same uniform throughout the series (2371-2377) even though Starfleet re-styles the uniforms in 2373. The 2373 uniforms are seen in [DS9] Seasons 5-7, [ST IX: Insurrection] and [ST X: Nemesis]. This means, perhaps confusingly, that Starfleet personnel such as Counsellor Troi, Admiral Paris and others at Project Pathfinder are seen in [Voyager] wearing the 2373 uniforms. The altered Barclay hologram also wears the 2373 uniform in [#152 Inside Man]. In [ST X: Nemesis], set in 2378, Admiral Kathryn Janeway wears the 2373 uniform.

No accurate end-stop can be placed on the service life of the 2373 uniforms, although they are of course in service up to and including the events of 2378 depicted in [ST X: Nemesis]. Spike's Star Trek Page says they serve until 2394. He does not say why but presumably it is so stated in TOSTFF. If so, it is therefore so because different uniforms are seen in Q's anti-time of 2395 depicted in [TNG: All Good Things], and that uniforms system looks like a development stage leading to the style of uniforms seen in 2404 in the eventually unrealised timeline depicted in [#171 and #172 Endgame]. The re-styled Starfleet emblem/combadge style is the same in [TNG: All Good Things] and [#171 and #172 Endgame]. The uniform worn by Captain La Forge in [#100 Timeless] does not contradict that because he is in is 2390, but it becomes an unrealised timeline - events between 2375 and 2390 get changed when Kim and Chakotay change history so that the rest of the Voyager crew live.

The white dress uniforms are first seen in [ST IX: Insurrection], which is set in 2375, no stardate given. They are also seen in [DS9: Season 7: Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges] and in [ST X: Nemesis].

The Standard Extravehicular Work Garment (SEWG), first seen in 2373's [ST VIII: First Contact], is also seen in several [Voyager] episodes such as [#71 Day Of Honor], [#84 Prey] and [#161 Workforce, Part 1] whose events are set in early 2374, mid-2374 and mid-2377 respectively. The Voyager crew refer to it as an environmental suit. For more information see SHIP USS VOYAGER: Standard Extravehicular Work Garment (SEWG).

One or two additional items of clothing are shown in screenshots that are not given in TOSTFF/the scans on the left below.

NOTE RE SOURCES. I cannot find the TOSTFF article on 2373 uniforms, but believe I do have it somewhere, as I doubt I would have decided (which I did a while ago) to compile the section 'Starfleet Uniforms' without it. (Either that or seeing so many pages of uniforms just confused me and I remember wrongly.) When I could not find the TOSTFF issue concerned, I turned to the Web which is how I found Spike's Star Trek Page (thanks, Spike!) as well as a few other sites whose scans were the same as his but his scans were the first I saw and thus downloaded and the easiest to enhance. But unfortunately I could not find any in depth text on the Web (e.g. Spike gives labels only e.g. "admiral's uniform"; I have added notes re date and first appearance etc.), so what is offered here is entirely down to me, and I apologise for any errors. Canon text in other forms might become available in due course. Meanwhile I hope that providing lots of screenshots will help make up for the lack of text. They are mostly from [ST VIII: First Contact] because (a) that is the film in which they are first seen (b) I have not yet taken many screenshots from [ST IX: Insurrection] and none so far from [ST X: Nemesis] because this article took longer to compose than expected so I may add/replace screenshots from those films later.

PAGE CONTENTSstandard uniforms, continued - shirt, undershirt, boots

 


shirt;
command/conn

 

 


shirt;
security, engineering

 

 


shirt;
science, medical

 

 


undershirt

 

 


undershirt variant, male

 

 


undershirt variant, female
          

 

SHIRT


Picard
[ST VIII: First Contact]
The standard duty uniform consists of a long-sleeved shirt worn beneath the jacket. The shirt is colour-coded to denote the Starfleet department of its wearer. The same colour-coding system is used as with the previous style of uniforms, namely red for command/conn, yellow (or gold) for security and engineering, and blue (or blue-green) for science and medical.

Although USS Voyager's crew continue to wear the previous uniform style, as the colour-coding is the same there is no risk of misidentification as regards department.


Picard wears his red shirt open at the collar
[ST VIII: First Contact]

[DS9: Season 5: In Purgatory's Shadow]

 

UNDERSHIRT

The grey undershirt style of the previous uniforms system is retained.

When someone is down to wearing the shirt, or even just the undershirt (see below), it often indicates a non-normal situation e.g. danger or a looming threat requiring action such as physical exertion. (When Janeway strips down to her undershirt in [#54 Macrocosm], it is partly to help her cope with the additional heat caused by the macrovirus infestation and, with physical action anticipated, to free her body of the jacket and shirt, but also in terms of tv drama it garbs her as the action heroine. Similarly with Torres in [#115 Juggernaut] when she leads an away team to the crippled Malon freighter.)
aloft in the engine room of USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E flooded with gas lethal to organic matter, Picard hangs on desperately as the Borg Queen tries to pull him down; wearing a shirt or jacket or both would make very active movement harder
[ST VIII: First Contact]

The undershirt has wide arm holes and a low-cut neck. (Britons, who would call it a 'vest', should not confuse it with the vest, an garment worn over the shirt and described on the next page.) The tailoring style means that if a member of Starfleet male personnel is wearing only the undershirt on his top half, the jacket and shirt should not impede him during physical exertion involving a variety of athletic moves. The colour of the undershirt is grey, but appears actually to be a blue-grey and, depending on the light, it even appear very blue or very grey.

Picard wears only the undershirt as he battles the Borg Queen in the engine room of USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E. It seems the shirt is removed by the Borg or by their order because when Picard challenges the Borg Queen he is wearing the shirt, but then he is taken away to be assimilated, and he is next seen without the shirt. The Borg Queen is played by Alice Krige who reprises the role in [#171 and #172 Endgame].
[ST VIII: First Contact]

 

BOOTS

Regulation ankle-high black boots with side fastener. Those shown belong to Picard, with the first screenshot showing the Borg Queen seizing hold of his trouser leg to try and pull him down into the flood of gas that is lethal to organic matter.
The Borg Queen is played by Alice Krige who reprises the role in [#171 and #172 Endgame].
[ST VIII: First Contact]

 

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