Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

Costume Design by:

- Nilo Rodis-Jamero ( notable efforts: Return of the Jedi (1983) - most of Rodis-Jamero's career was in visual effects and production design)

The much maligned fifth entry of the Star Trek film series, The Final Frontier involved the crew of the Enterprise having to rescue a group of ambassadors by the religious cultist Sybok (Laurence Luckenbill) on the backwater planet Nimbus III. The costume designer (as well as art director), Nilo Rodis-Jamero, was a newcomer, but his costumes for this film would be following the design sense that Robert Fletcher established in the previous four movies. This can be seen clearly with the outfit worn by Spock when on holiday with Kirk, as Spock wears his traditional Vulcan attire under the more conventional jacket. The jacket feels slightly contemporary, but is is distinguished by the bright green padding. The troushers also have bright green suspenders, with red markings at the ends of the legs.

Kirk's outfit also feels rather contemporary, consisting of a blue jumper with a panel of ridged orange material around the neck giving a slightly futuristic feeling. The trousers also have green streaks at their ends too.

One of the most notable outfits in this film in my opinion is the one worn by the captive Earth ambassador Talbot (David Warner), who is clad in a white jacket (appearing beige in the auction photos thanks to aging) adorned with green lining on the sides, that is worn over a wraparound grey shirt and green-lined white vest.

The Romulans' ambassador, Caithlin Dar (Cynthia Gouw), is clad in a flowing silver dress, with a purple sash trailing down from the waist, and worn with a black belt, with a golden necklace that is actually trailing from a golden headpiece, the bands trailing down from her ears.

The Klingons are still unchanged from Robert Fletcher's original designs first seen in The Motion Picture, with one of their number, Klaa (Todd Bryant) only distinguished by not wearing any furred underclothes with his armor, not really worth including here. The Klingon ambassador, Korrd (Charles Cooper) wears the same officers uniform that Kruge wore in The Search for Spock, but is distinguished by wearing a large coat of grey and black lined fabric, adorned with several medals. This coat would make several reapparances in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, worn by other Klingon leaders.

One notable member of the Klingon taskforce commanded by Klaa is his lieutenant Vixis (Spice Williams), who is in a more form-fitting version of the Klingon armor with a modified collar, as well as no fur sleeves.

We seen some Vulcans again, only this time in a flashback sequence Spock endures thanks to Sybok, but we only see a brief appearance from a younger Sarek (Jonathan Simpson) - both of their outfits are barely visible in the film itself thanks to a combination of dark lighting and close-ups, but this particular Vulcan robe (supposedly designed by Robert Fletcher for The Search for Spock) on the YourProps website bears more than a resemblance to the outfit worn by Sarek here - perhaps, this was originally a background robe for that film's Vulcan sequence, and was briefly reused here?

Lastly is the the deluded Sybok, who for most of the film wears a gown that also looks rather similar in design to the ceremonial gown Spock wore in The Motion Picture's Vulcan ritual scene, though Sybok's has a triangular design motif, with various coloured stones adorning it in a pattern, giving him the feeling of being an alien prophet...which, in a way, he is.

The Last Starfighter (1984)

Costume Design by Robert Fletcher

While the bulk of the costume budget went to the assorted futuristic costumes, Fletcher designed and made the tweed suit and white waistcoat sported by Robert Preston in his role as disguised alien Centauri. The look is slightly 'out of time', as of course an alien probably would get Earth fashion a little wrong.

Fletcher's costumes, designed in collaboration with famed production artist Ron Cobb, lean to a more militaristic vibe compared to his costumes for the Star Trek films. The jumpsuits worn by the 'Starfighters' are beige, with ribbed panelling and futuristic tubing evoking real-world flightsuits.

The other uniforms of the 'Rylan Star League' follow a similar cut to the Starfighter uniforms, this time in powder blue with white lining. Some of the jumpsuits are worn with futuristic bell-shaped helmets.

Other technicians wear a white version of the blue uniform, worn with all-white versions of the Starfighters' caps. The uniforms depicted here were bespoke-made like the blue ones above.

The majority of extras wear off-the-rack mechanic overalls minimally altered with strips of fabric, and worn with blue versions of the custom-made caps.

The commander of the base, Enduran (Kay E. Kuter) wears a white suit coated in grey pattern lining (a similar design motif used in many of Fletcher's Star Trek costumes) and worn over a white top with a black pattern resembling a tie. Sadly this outfit is never seen fully up close.

Enduran has several aides with him in one scene, as well as several deleted scenes; these are thus even more elusive, and the blue suit has still not turned up on auction sites yet.

The Ko-Dan fleet is commanded by Xur (Norman Snow) whose uniform is of a similar cut to the uniforms of the Rylan starfighter personnel, but made up of black fabric and leather, with differing symbols in place, and wearing a metal headpiece with it.

His servants wear a grey version of the Rylan technician jumpsuit, with black lining.

Under Xur's command is Lord Kril (Dan Mason), who together with his lieutenant sport bright orange-red and black jumpsuits fixed with plastic armour plating, gauntlets and boots, and worn with two ridged plastic helmets, with some slight differences.

Kril and his lieutenant wear helmets, Kril's fitted with with a moving eyepiece. The helmet appears to be Ron Cobb's design, rather than Fletcher's - I'm not a fan of the helmet design much, and far prefer Robert Fletcher's original costume sketch.

The Ko-Dan soldiers are in similar uniforms but entirely orange-red in colour, and worn with concealing helmets to hide their less than humanoid faces, as well as the chest armour being in a different shape. The helmets are a particular memorable design especially, with the eyes fixed onto them seeming almost insectoid.