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.