Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Costume Design by:

- Deborah Everton ( notable efforts: The Abyss (1989), Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), The Osiris Chronicles (1998), Dick (1999), Spy Kids (2001) )

- Robert Blackman ( notable efforts: The Running Man (1987), Star Trek: The Next Generation (Seasons 3 to 7), Deep Space Nine (1993 - 1999), Voyager (1995 - 2001), Enterprise (2001 - 2005), Pushing Daisies (2007 - 2009), Mockingbird Lane (2012) )

Note: Blackman was the designer for the new Starfleet uniforms, whilst Everton was assigned to the rest of the characters. However, Everton enlisted costume illustrator Gina DeDomenico to help realize her ideas for the costumes, and these designs do all feel indebted to Blackman's various costume designs for the then-ongoing television series Deep Space Nine and Voyager.

This more particularly 'gritty' film entry of the Star Trek saga did a way with the more colourful costume design sense of the main shows and previous films, with a new Starfleet uniform being designed by Bob Blackman to help set the tone - this new uniforms is the same general design as the rather simplistic one he had designed for Deep Space 9 and Voyager, but this time has ribbed grey panelling over the shoulders, with the gold/red/green ranking style being on the undershirt instead. This feels more militaristic than previous Starfleet uniform designs, setting the tone for this more gung-ho movie as well as the more military scifi tone of Deep Space 9, which reused these uniforms plenty.

This new Starfleet uniform design comes with a new style of officer uniform (again, designed by Blackman) that would be seen in the follow-up films Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis, as well as Deep Space 9 - this design is a buttonless officer's jacket with gold lining down the middle, and the same grey ribbed panelling on the shoulders, with gold-lined bands on the cuffs.

Lastly for the redesigned Starfleet uniforms (that would also see plenty of reuse in Deep Space Nine) is this vest with the same ribbed grey padding over the shoulders, worn by Picard in this film and Sisko in DS9 - once again, I feel this was probably Blackman's design work.

The actual plot of First Contact involves time travelling to the 21st century after it had been decimated by nuclear war, so most of the humans are just in tatty contemporary garb though the Enterprise's crew adopt the local fashion to fit in. Designed by DeDomenico and Everton, the latter bringing her rather more muted and utilitarian design sense, these are still definitely indebted to Bob Blackman's design sense, with more unusual fabric textures, short sharp cuts, high waists and asymmetrical patterns to be seen here. The most striking outfit among the 'contemporary' disguises that looks a bit futuristic is worn by LaForge, whose wears trousers with a large brown waist strip and a red vest with circular patterns around one sleeve.

The rest of the Enterprises crew wear a variety of jackets and vests that have little futuristic touches, such as Reginald Barclay's (Dwight Schultz) having straps over his vest, Troi having a patterned vest under a rather short waistcoat, and Data and Riker's jackets having epaulette-like strips on the shoulders. These costume display photos in particular came from the Star Trek: Auctions, Props and Wardrobe facebook page, which I hope they do not mind being reposted here. This also counts for the outfit worn by the less than hopeful inventor Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell), who wears a vest over his overalls, the vest covered in a patterned fabric that feels like Native American textile designs. Notice that his hat has metal studs around the sides as well.

Another notable 21st century outfit (though this isn't quite AS dreary enough as actual modern fashion, so who knows) is the brown shirt and green-lined vest worn by Lily Sloane (Alfre Woodard). I could mention the 1930s dress she wears in the holodeck sequence, but I won't partly as it's never seen in full, partly because I think it's kind of ugly, sorry.

Lastly for the futuristic outfits are the robes worn by the Vulcans that arrive making the 'first contact' of the film's title - these are also inspired by Blackman's design sense, with the curved segment of ridged material going over one side.

Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 4 (2004)

Costume Design by:

- Robert Blackman ( notable efforts: The Running Man (1987), Star Trek: The Next Generation (Seasons 3 to 7), Deep Space Nine (1993 - 1999), Voyager (1995 - 2001), Pushing Daisies (2007 - 2009), Mockingbird Lane (2012) )

'Home'

This episode had T'Pol returning to her home planet Vulcan, and being on casual duty wears civilian attire - the trousers are totally contemporary, but it's the rather strange shirt she wears that's noteworthy, being made out of a mottled purple fabric, with ridging on the sides and large sleeves.

Much more striking is the gown that T'Pol wears during her wedding in this episode, which is a lavender gown, fitted with chiffon sleeves and neck, as well as a chiffon veil; also of note is the lining that is attached to the skirt segment of the dress as well.

Also appearing in this episode is T'Pol's mother T'Les (Joanna Cassidy), who is first seen wearing this gown with lining going over the chest, as well as golden studs going over the side?

T'Les's second dress of note in this episode is more in line with the typical Vulcan fashion sense seen in Enterprise, being a robe with buckles to one side, with a slightly raised collar and shoulders, worn under a gown too.

'The Forge'

Phlox is briefly seen playing sports in this episode, and during it wears some futuristic sportswear consisting of a jacket and trousers with curved lining, itself of a striped material, going down from the collar and waist respectively.

'Awakening'

Continuing the plot are of the Syrannite conflict, this episode once again featured the Vulcan politician Soval (Gary Graham), who wears a formal wraparound suit of a brown pinstriped material, with specially cut cuffs - this is usually worn under a gown, with most Vulcan politicians in this episode dressing in a similar fashion.

Archer also endures a vision where he talks to Surak (Bruce Gray), the founder of Vulcan society, who wears the typical gown and robe as the other Vulcans in this series, but also wears an asymmetrically cut waistcoat of sorts over it too.

Also appearing are Vulcan soldiers, who wear pale green vinyl jumpsuits with horizontally ribbed breastplates worn over them.

'Babel One'

This episode was reusing a plot point from the original 1960s series, the feud between the pig-like Tellarites and the blue-skinned Andorians. The Andorian costumes I've neglected to mention in this entry due to finding their costumes uninteresting, being all just black vinyl jumpsuits, but the Tellarite costumes are rather more ornate, being brown gowns with bands of studded material around the chest, worn with a short cloak of similar colour and patterns.

'The Aenar'

This episode involved the Enterprise crew searching for a mysterious subspecies of Andorian, the titular Aenar, who wear beige tunics with panels of white-lined fabric over the front and bottom ends, with the sleeves wrapped in white fabric.

'Affliction'

This episode was just one very convolated excuse to explain why the 1960s Klingons didn't have forehead bumps, which was apparently caused by an especially ridiculous scheme spearheaded by the Klingon scientist Antaak (John Schuck) whose first outfit (barely seen thanks to the moody direction of the episode) is a brown striped robe with furred cuffs and wirey material lining the shoulders, worn under a coat with similar black wire lining on the shoulders.

'Bound'

This particular episode was another callback to the original 1960s series in that it was a return of the Orions, the infamously sexed-up green-skinned aliens - though, the most notable outfit worn by any of them in this episode is a fully concealing one, in the form of this bulky studded armor worn by the captain Harrad-Sar (William Lucking)

Out of the various sultry outfits worn by the Orion women, only the leather deal where the bra is designed in a way resembling bat wings is that notable in terms of design.

'In a Mirror, Darkly'

In this two-part episode, we get one final look at the fascist 'mirror universe', which noticeably isn't that different in their dress sense compared to the original versions - with the exception of the women crewmembers who all wear crop tops as part of their uniform. Perhps the most notble costume however is worn by the mirror universe's version of Phlox (John Billingsley) - his main universe counterpart usually just wears muted shirts, but his mirror version is in a studded leather tunic with a rounded collar and asymmetrical lining over the front.

'These Are The Voyages...'

The maligned season finale involved a final appearance from Shran (Jeffrey Combs), who in his last appearance wears a wraparound jacket made of a leather-like material on the front, worn under a furred coat too.