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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 1 points 32 minutes ago

There are far too many people in here with this I didn't have a problem with it kinda energy

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 53 minutes ago (3 children)
[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 4 points 41 minutes ago (1 children)

I've seen so many meme edits of this scene that I was waiting for the reveal, lol.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 minutes ago

Aw, he should have let her keep that one!

[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

This is why God allowed AI

[–] FlatFootFox@lemmy.world 3 points 11 minutes ago

I still love how Jellico’s changes were all just stealth excuses for cast requests.

That being said, a four shift rotation is absurd.

[–] VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 34 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

My teenage self had no complaints about Troi's uniforms.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

None? He lacked inagination!

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Tf are you still listening to that hormonal idiot, it's been over 30 years

I have to listen to my teenage self if I want to have any chance of getting him to listen to me!

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

And it's still more modest than a lot of what gets worn today.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 62 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

"Dress was so short that you could see what I had for breakfast" is such an amazing turn of words

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Carrie Fisher said of the slave Leia bikini that, because it was rigid, while she was laying against Jabba it rode forward and anyone standing behind her could see "all the way to China." and she opined that's why the actor playing Boba Fett preferred standing back there.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 115 points 9 hours ago (11 children)

I love her. She's the queen of TMI during Q&A's. Like when she casually dropped that before she met her now husband, she "slept" with just about every single guest star. What a legend.

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 37 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

"Not just the men, but the women and..."

[–] Sakurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Cmdr William T Riker enters the chat

[–] socsa@piefed.social 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago

Wesley: "Did he just tell me to shut up?"

Dr. Crusher: "Shut up Wesley."

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[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 87 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Captain Jellico's "put on a real uniform" command was written in at Marina's request.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 44 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Smart move. Even by 1989's standards and fashions, some of the costumes they put her in were hideous.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

As a female friend pointed out to me: “and you never see her panty line.”

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It may be an unpopular opinion, but I think she looked way cooler in uniform.


I was just thinking about Troi's season 1 jumpsuit. She wore the "skant" for one episode, then that blue-grey loose fitting jumpsuit with the ruched waist sash for the rest of season one, then the mauve catsuit. That jumpsuit was made of denim, it was honestly the most modest things he wore. We'd call Yar's clingy spandex outfit the scandalous one if it weren't what all the men were also unironically wearing.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 26 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm quite fond of the long dress she got for one season. I'm sure it was hell as a costume, but I thought it looked tasteful. I also have the idea that the psychological/psychiatric lead on the ship ought to look somewhat "different" when she's working. Her uniform should be more casual, because her role is one where you want people to be able to get away from the structure, and to trust her confidentiality. The catsuits were dumb, and the Farpoint / S1 miniskirt was scandalous. but I did like the full-length dress.

[–] wirehead@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Pretty much every "show off the attractive female main character" outfit that they've invented for Trek has not worked for me. Troi's outfits, Seven's outfits, T'pol's outfits... I think that actually the only exception is the Farpoint miniskirt and even then it just looks attractive but I don't like what it meant for Troi's brains so all things being equal I actually like her the most in the standard uniform jumpsuit which is, quite frankly, already designed to make people look good.

Now that we're decades away from the show and everybody involved has been interviewed a bunch of times, what I actually wish we could have seen was Troi as the diplomatic counselor instead of the vague psychological lead / poorly utilized character that we got. Because if she was the ship's therapist the long dress would work because it is tasteful and different yet still professional, but then we'd not be seeing her on the bridge the way we did.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 10 points 4 hours ago

I've posted this before.

My head canon is that when a new civilization joins the Federation, they get to pick the new Starfleet uniforms. The Betazeds gave us the TOS miniskirts.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 9 points 6 hours ago

You're a better man (I assume) than me. My young self very much appreciated Sevens outfit back in the day. Although I have to admit, the episode where she travels back in time to the Voyager in dry dock and wears the science uniform plus a ponytail was also a great look for her.

[–] Serialchemist@ttrpg.network 98 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

“Gene Roddenberry’s vision” was usually an upskirt shot.

[–] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

God I remember reruns of TOS on G4 where they would have like a side panel with counters for things that happened in the episode. “Spock says illogical” “Uhura panty shot”

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 32 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Which wasn't helped by Berman.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Oh the short skirts were 100% Gene. Rick is the one with the catsuit fetish. He was the one who decided to shrink wrap Jeri Ryan.

Yeah. You might have been able to see what Marina was eating for lunch, but she and Denise Crosby didn't need rescue oxygen.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 58 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Oh, she ate pussy for breakfast?

[–] Tower@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 hours ago

Ahhhh, ok. Now it clicked.

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