Enterprise was a bit of a mess, but you gotta hand it to wardrobe: utilitarian jumpsuits was a great call for the prequel.
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All Star Trek uniforms are tracksuits.
We can progress as a species ONLY once we all calm down and commit to universal tracksuit wearing. No business suits, no status items - just comfort wear.
They make yoga clothes that can also be worn to work. It's happening, at least in places.
is there a term for that like athleisure or something similar?
There was that onesie business suit BetaBrand used to sell. I should have got one before they pivoted to all women's clothes.
Yeah I'm not sure I'd categorize all the 90s-era Star Trek onesies as "comfort wear"... especially not on characters with male genitalia. Maybe the 24th century characters didn't care, but I always felt second-hand embarrassment for the 20th century actors!
especially not on characters with male genitalia.

Looks pretty comfortable to me! 🤷
Hey, I liked the male skants! I thought they were actually more conservative and professional than all the "here's my bulge!" onesies.
How do we know they have male genitalia?
Because being trans wasn't invented until DS9. (/s)
Edit: Or at least S05E17.
Famously the crew hated especially the first costume design. They did improve them, but they weren't super comfortable by any account I could find.
Sure, but in canon the space age fabric is supposed to be adaptive to a wide range of temperatures.
...which sounds like a tracksuit to me!
Lovely idea, except that to some?/many? people, tracksuits are possibly the least comfortable clothing ever. Nasty clingy sticky plasticky weak sweaty flimsy things.
Pockets full of faith of the heart and cheese.
"In the future we won't need pockets" said no credible prognosticator, EVAR.
Also, sometime in 2300s, going to the bathroom was made redundant, hence the fashion of unitards.
Lower Decks uniforms have pockets too.
Also, in TOS they stuck their phasers to their pants with velcro.

I like the jacket Torres gets occasionally on Voyager, presumably in response to how silly the pockets situation is.
That's the jacket they put on her to hide the actress' pregnancy. I don't think she ever inserts or retrieves anything from the pocket.
Perhaps a step on the right direction, but still a bit silly that there's a token amount of pocket for a token bit of tools
Voyager had some FPS games (Elite Force iirc) that were fairly standard Quake-Engine early naughties shooters with a Delta Quadrant Flare that were okay, but actually had a clever inventory system.
The way they explained how you could cary a phaser, a compression phase rifle, a special "infinity modulator" for fighting Borg, an an over-the-shoulder mini torpedo launcher, and more was that you had a mobile transporter buffer that held all your equipment, and the weapons would beam into and out of your hands as you changed weapons.
The point was they are supposed to be beyond the need for pockets. You were able to just stick anything you needed to carry with you anywhere on your clothes. OG Trek used velcro and prayers to pull off the effect. Later shows just kind of shot around it.
The question i'm asking my self: have they ever used these pockets?
Yes, in one of the episodes where Archer is being questioned by the reptilian Xindi, he has some kind of proof about the future (I can't remember exactly) and tells one of the Xindi to check his pocket for it (Archer's hands are tied up, so he can't grab it himself)
The only reason I remember that scene, is because the Xindi unzips the pocket on Archer's arm, as if he knew exactly which pocket Archer was talking about... and I'm thinking, "why the hell would you assume the little arm pocket would be the one to check first?"
Why the hell would you assume an alien would have the same intuition about order as a human? 😜
It was actually a subtle demonstration of Archer's competence because he had placed it in that pocket before it all went down, knowing that that alien's culture started counting up their arms. He even knew which side they'd start with. (His ultra competence was because he thought to ask Phlox about it).
One thing I really love about Archer is that he's not ultracompetent. He's just this really good engineer from anywhere, America, and what drives him and makes him great is his passion for standing humanity up on its own, able to make its own way without the Vulcans holding their hand.
I really want a good Star Trek uniform that's affordable, but have so far had trouble finding anything to my liking.
And yes, I would also like to have the controversial one from Next Generation that was way ahead of the times.
It even comes into play in the xindi arc. Plot relevant pockets in the episode Azati Prime.




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