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The insights of T-shirts
« on: May 11, 2014, 09:56:42 PM »


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Re: The insights of T-shirts
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2014, 12:41:08 PM »
They appear to get their clothing from a Goodwill store near Starfleet Academy.

I forgot what color blue represents.
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Re: The insights of T-shirts
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2014, 05:58:46 PM »
They appear to get their clothing from a Goodwill store near Starfleet Academy.

I forgot what color blue represents.


Science officers.

One of the characters in this comic is named Der Trihs,..... , which I didn't get right away...

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Re: The insights of T-shirts
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2014, 09:40:06 PM »
The idea that in the future everyone will wear some sort of pocketless jumpsuits is very amusing to me.  It suggests that people will lose their sense of originality in the future.

The casual clothes worn on Star Trek looked uncomfortable and weird.
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Re: The insights of T-shirts
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2014, 12:23:45 AM »
http://redmonkeystudiowv.blogspot.com/2011/01/william-shatner-star-trek-captain-james.html

   Yes , the weirdness was intended. Clothing tells you a lot of messages , so clothing that seems futuristic seems weird, but it would be even more weird if they dressed normally and played people of a different era, It would be like George Washington in a three piece suit.




   What they didn't intend was the "'Red Shirt" cliché, the meaning of the shirt colors was supposed to differentiate the crew by their departments, but the red shirted guys were often the victims of monsters , sort of cannon fodder plot devices.

   Funny how that worked out.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedShirt
 http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedshirtArmy


   Found in passing.... The town of Riverside, Iowa, petitioned Roddenberry and Paramount pictures

 in 1985 for permission to "adopt" Kirk as their town's "Future Son". Paramount wanted $40,000 for a license to reproduce a bust of Kirk, but the city instead set a plaque and built a replica of the Enterprise (named the "USS Riverside"), and the Riverside Area Community Club holds an annual "Trek Fest" in anticipation of Kirk's birthday.

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Re: The insights of T-shirts
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2014, 12:01:29 PM »
I find it amusing that one should have to pay to make a bust of a fictional character. That is like getting sued for illegally copying the lyrics to "Disco Duck" or "Who Let the Dawgs out".

One would expect the members of a crew to wear uniforms. The original series uniforms, along with the Next Generation, and DS-9 uniforms look practical. The weirdness is in the idea that civilians would wear clothes that also looked so uniformish. And the idea that every Star Trek film needed new and more garish uniforms.

In the 1950's, tee shirts were underwear. Only Italian and other poor immigrants in plays appeared in wifebeater shirts.

Now the original tee (golf) shirts have morphed into collared golf shirts, strangely known as "polo shirts", and people wear tee shirts as outerwear.
Camo has somehow become fashionable, despite it resembling the military's answer to tie dye.

It is difficult to predict future fashions. Very few people fought in the Gulf and desert camo has become quite fashionable. Over a hundred thousand fought in Vietnam, and Korea and the uniforms worn by the troops never became fashionable.

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