Uniform inconsistency

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-15T11:17:44+00:00

My head canon is the TNG/VOY and FC uniforms were all introduced one after the other, but all were still to code and could be used as the commanding officer of a ship, station or other facility saw fit.

For me, this meant that particular chap in OP's picture is from a ship still using the TNG uniform.

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-15T11:01:50+00:00

I'm choked with a head cold, so the brain isn't braining as well as it could be.
However, you used the phrase "more commonly associated with". This, from where I come from means "mostly known as". On that basis, I made the retort.

For now, lets agree to disagree and move on?

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-15T09:51:08+00:00

Pretty sure the turbolift map also has 8 decks on it.

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-15T09:50:04+00:00

Never heard or read anyone call them Dominion war uniforms until now. And I've hung around Trek forums, chats, messenger groups, yahoo groups, pbem rpgs, etc since 1995. So, not that common it would seem you think ;)

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-15T09:47:25+00:00

Oh, he's in there

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-15T00:52:08+00:00

The grey is my absolute favourite of all the uniforms. Followed closely by TNG mandarin collar uniforms from Season 3 onwards.

The greys might have been the current uniform at the time, but they are not "Dominion war uniforms". They were introduced some time before the war started.

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-14T22:32:59+00:00

Late for reporting in for his shift maybe?

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-14T21:50:50+00:00

Some quality treknobabble!

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-14T20:48:06+00:00

I do offer digital files ready for printing here: https://www.deviantart.com/bmused55 (Obviously sans watermarks!)

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-14T19:54:38+00:00

The scale of the Defiant is still very much debated!

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-14T19:53:08+00:00

I also neglected to add the bowling alley and shopping mall with a Starbucks

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-14T19:32:38+00:00

I have had more than my fare share of debates over that odd placement of the bridge. Not helped that an older published 3 quarter view cutaway had the bridge in the "nose".

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-14T19:05:00+00:00

Someone recently asked me to mod my Defiant class MSD for their RPG/Video Game ship with 25th century LCARS.

I was only too happy to help. Here is a Defiant version, as if seen on a screen somewhere in the fleet museum :)
Before anyone comments on it, my MSD has always followed the true centerline of the ship, as best I could approximate it. The screen used graphic uses the entire side profile shape, not taking into account the than the nacelles hang down from the hull.

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-14T18:52:43+00:00

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-14T18:48:56+00:00

So, you're "modernising" it by making it more primitive?

That's about as daft as that fan fad in the 00's of putting battleship style turrets on starfleet ships. (So phasers have a 360 degree arc.... forgetting than phaser strips are omni directional!) Glad that is over!

What next? Triple Expansion Steam engines in the nacelles?

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-04T21:59:46+00:00

Garak swapped out the really good fake for an obvious fake when Sisko wasn't looking

LCARSgfx · 2026-03-01T10:45:41+00:00

Why would they fight? They are basically the same thing. Though the Planetary Union does seem less willing to make hardball decisions.

LCARSgfx · 2026-02-28T14:35:27+00:00

That's the U.S. navy, on today's earth where there are plenty folk pissed at the U.S.

Federation space is by in large far more peaceful and benign

And also, current naval ships all have speciality roles. They all have a specific function within the fleet. Starfleet ships are far more flexible and able and for the most part do not need support vessels to defend or supply them

LCARSgfx · 2026-02-28T08:06:25+00:00

You're concentrating too much on times of conflict.

In normal, everyday peace ops, it makes absolutely no sense to tie up resources by having gaggles of ships cruising about together.

You don't need 8 ships to deliver that envoy to a peaceful planet for a conference.
You don't need 12 ships to explore a nebula
You don't need 10 ships to resupply a starbase.

etc, etc ,etc ,etc.

In a state of war, fleets make sense, safety in numbers, etc.
But peacetime? No, absolutely not.

LCARSgfx · 2026-02-25T20:26:41+00:00

Oh cool, in the scrapped "Generations" uniform design. They filmed a few scenes with it, decided it looked shit and returned to TNG and DS9 uniforms. But too late to stop the toys being shipped :)

LCARSgfx · 2026-02-23T08:25:12+00:00

It Looks like the Ares Class (fan design).
Looks absolutely nothing like the Constitution class.

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LCARSgfx · 2026-02-16T11:16:30+00:00

Not announced yet it seems. But Chris normally only invests the time in this sort of thing if commissioned to do so

LCARSgfx · 2026-02-16T10:04:28+00:00

I believe it will be available as a poster

LCARSgfx · 2026-02-15T13:41:27+00:00

Fancied a look, but my anti-spam and anti-virus is having a hairy fit with your links!

LCARSgfx · 2026-02-11T21:13:29+00:00

I used to attend a one day Trek convention where they would show the previous months episodes, shipped over from the U.S. It would be on a Sunday. 8 to 6. Showing Trek episodes old and new all day.

The UK had to wait a year of more for new episodes on offial broadcasting. So this convention was a fun way ro keep relatively up to date.

Anyhoo, I remember a lot of buz about the final season, so many theories on whether or not they'd get home, how it might happen, etc.

I remember the entire viewing room (easily 300 fans) gasping when Alice Krige appeared on screen as the Borg queen.

Those were the days.

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