We ’re pretty possessed with the costume from Star Trek , both the original serial and the later iterations . After all , Trek has a long and proud record of pushing the fashion envelope , from its military pajamas to its alien lingerie . Here ’s a look inside a arresting novel book about Star Trek ’s greatest costume .
Star Trek : Costumes : Five Decades of Fashion from the Final Frontiercomes out next week , and it ’s an implausibly unsparing aggregation of pictorial matter I ’ve never seen before .
You acquire all about how William Ware Theiss got around connection censorship — the connection would n’t countenance him show bellybuttons — by inventing brand new erogenous zone that nobody had ever thought of before . Theiss ’ costumes for the female guest stars ofttimes see as though they ’re hazardously concord together with bits of double - sided taping , but they scupper random areas of skin that you never opine were sexy before .
There are also amazing insights into designs like Khan ’s follower ’s costume in Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan , and the original blueprint sketches of the Borg , both of which are featured below . You get to see just how bonkers Shinzon ’s costume design in Star Trek : Nemesis was , too . Most of all , there are unbelievable full - color close - ups of costume that you ’ve only glimpse in the recess of the screen , along with tons of costume pattern sketches .
assure out a pick of images below , some of which are single to io9 .
Designer William Ware Theiss and actress Susan Oliver during filming of the Star Trek pilot burner , “ The John Milton Cage Jr. . ”
Shahna ( Angelique Pettyjohn ) from “ The Gamesters of Triskelion , ” wears a classical Theiss design .
Theiss ’s concept outline for the telluric Ambassador Gav ’s costume from “ Journey to Babel ”
Theiss ’s design for Kara , leader of the Eymorgs in “ Spock ’s Brain ”
Admiral Kirk ’s Class A uniform in Star Trek : The Motion Picture . notice that costume designer Robert Fletcher had already commence defining optical cues for membership distinctions .
Fletcher ’s sketch for Ilia ’s Class A uniform in Star Trek : The Motion Picture .
Fletcher ’s sketch for Captain ( in reality , Admiral ) Kirk ’s Class B uniform .
An former costume sketch for Joachim , Khan ’s genetically enhanced right - hand humans .
conception sketch for the Modern uniform innovation in Star Trek V by Nilo Rodis - Jamero .
And here are some page spreads from the book . flick to enlarge !
Star Trek : Costumesis available on Oct. 13 .
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