Star Trek TNG season 1 should have looked like this

[rcrush]

http://www.poptherapy.com/2009/06/omg-star-trek-corsets-in-action/

[LostInAnomie]

1. Without a doubt.

[Kutjara]

2. I really wouldn't want to see Wil Wheaton in one of those. n/t

[rcrush]

3. I bet this guy gets into the romulan ale and would put one of those unifroms on.

[Kutjara]

4. He has the unmistakable look of a man who knows for certain...

...his acting career is over.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Gotta love the skant.

[MilesColtrane]

18. A real man can pull that off.

[Odin2005]

5. NICE!

:D

[Orsino]

6. Short-range scans are picking up anomalous energy readings...

...in my pants.

[EndersDame]

7. I love Corsets and Star Trek!

someone needs to buy me one!

[realisticphish]

8. Shatner wears those all the time, now nt

[hedgehog]

9. I can't believe Roddenberry missed out on this.

Deanna Troi was originally supposed to have 3 pairs of breasts, but no one could figure out where to put the extra two pair. I guess Gene wasn't a leg man.

[NewJeffCT]

10. Where is the original picture from?

Just curious?

[gmoney]

11. The hair and wardrobe is why I really dislike TNG and most Space Operas

Everything was just overly styled and primped and pressed and tailored.

I know the advances of technology in the future might make that sort of thing possible, but why would it be necessary or desirable?

That bugs me about superhero movies, too. I honestly think that's some of the appeal of Heath Ledger's "Joker" -- a character who had better things to do with his time than tend to his coiffure.

[Deja Q]

12. The late 1980s were like that in general...

A season 2 interview bonus has Marina Sirtis against a slate gray background and she looks like a high-end prostitute, the sort that Elliot Spitzer would use...


(not the image in the interview, but sufficiently similar to scare you with)

[Kutjara]

14. You made me think of the Paul Reiser character in Aliens.

His performance raised the interesting sociological question: "Will douchebag executives still wear suit jackets with the collars turned-up in 300 years?" Mercifully, we now have the answer to that question.

[Kutjara]

13. For me, it's the dancing.

Most everything else can be "futurized" in SciFi movies/shows (and I'm happy to suspend my disbelief to an extent) but when the characters are shown dancing at a party or some alien "ritual", it's all over. They're either disco divas or sub-Glee Club versions of "Cats."

I used to howl with laughter at "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century," for many reasons, but mostly because of the large amount of disco dancing the director felt was necessary to show. Will "The Hustle" really be the most popular dance in 400 years?

Trek had it's fair share of bad dancing scenes, too, most of which were directed by former dancer Gates McFadden.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. I liked the episode when Data learned to tap, though.

[Kutjara]

17. That was one of the less objectionable ones, I agree.

Which brings up another pet peeve I have about a lot of television scifi: lazy writers, when required to flesh a character out with hobbies or interests, invariably turn to the 20th century or earlier. Picard is a Shakespeare buff; Riker loves early jazz; Beverley is a tap dancer; Tom Paris is a 1950s pop culture nut; Harry Kim, jazz again; The Doctor: opera and 19th Century folk songs. When Data want to play cards with the greatest scientific minds of all time on the Holodeck, the most recent genius he can find is Stephen Hawking. What, none of the guys who discovered subspace or made contributions to warp theory deserved a seat at the table?

Only Worf likes Klingon Opera, which frankly sounds like Wagner played by cats.

Did nothing of lasting value happen culturally between 1960 and 2365? Did none of the rich alien cultures the Federation has encountered contribute anything the popular imagination except raktajino (fancy coffee) and paresi squares (alien squash)?

Or is it more likely that any attempt to portray "future" music or hobbies would look absurd?

[rcrush]

19. I think they were trying to make them look at snobby as possible

There was an episode of TNG where Picard and Beverly were all excited to see members of the crew play classical music. I think everyone in the future is an elitist douche who cant appreciate anything new.


Raktajino is KLINGON COFFEE. BREAKFAST OF WARRIORS. I've never figured out what Paresi Squares is.

[Kutjara]

20. I think you're right.

They're all trapped in some "pre WWIII golden age" mindset, and seem to have no interest in anything later.

I was less impressed by raktjino when I saw that Worf thought prune juice was a "warrior's drink." And I guess Ex-Lax is "warrior's chocolate"? No wonder they're all so bad tempered: a diet of blood, caffeine and prunes would give a block of granite the shits.

All I can work out about paresi squares is that it invariably leads to near-fatal injuries, yet parents seem happy to allow their young children to play it.

[skygazer]

23. This drove me crazy too

And why not any rock and roll? If you're going to go for 20th century, why not some good rock?

It always cracked me up too that when Data put on his incredibly boring musical recitals, there were only ever about 15 people in the audience. :rofl:

[rcrush]

26. All the enlisted men were in the bowels of the ship watching the mud wrestling fight

Between the Orion Slave girls. Thats why you never see any non commissioned officers in TNG. They would have you think that only officers were in Starfleet. But its not true!

[EndersDame]

21. It has to be asked- If one of them gets into a fight with a space alien

how would she get her corset off? I personally need help getting into and out of mine. :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

[rcrush]

22. I like how in the future women in space fight naked

I bet Starfleet made them some kind of rip away corsets like how basketball players have rip away sweat pants.

[EndersDame]

24. I think one of the problems of TNG is that Picard didnt rip his shirt off like Kirk

I am sure Kirk and Scotty worked on some kind of garment that did just that though

[rcrush]

25. I think thats why he started wearing that jacket for awhile.

Eventually they got to that black/grey uniform that has like 14 layers so they can just keep taking off clothes for dramatic effect.