Starfleet Uniforms
2278-2350

Duty uniform 2280 (Command)	Duty uniform 2280 (Engineering)	Duty uniform 2280 (Science)	Duty uniform 2280 (Medical)	Cadet uniform 2280 (Command)
Duty uniform 2330 (CONN)	Duty uniform 2330 (Engineering)	Duty uniform 2330 (Science, Medical)
Duty uniform 2340 (CONN)	Duty uniform 2340 (Engineering)	Duty uniform 2340 (Science, Medical)
Duty uniform (Command)	Duty uniform (Engineering)	Duty uniform (Science)	Duty uniform (Medical)	Cadet uniform (Command)
NCO's jumpsuit (Science)	Enlisted trainee (Science)
Bomber Jacket (Command)	Bomber Jacket (Engineering)	Bomber Jacket (Science)	Bomber Jacket (Medical)
Field jacket (Command)	Field uniform (Captain)	Field uniform (Command)	Field uniform (Marines)
Protective suit Engineers (Officers, NCOs)	Protective suit Engineers (Cadets, Trainees)	Protective suit Disaster workers (Officers, NCOs)	Protective suit Disaster workers (Cadets, Trainees)	Protective suit
Medical uniform (Doctors)	Medical uniform (Nurses, Orderlies)	Security guard	Prison guard	Athletic wear
Waiter uniform (2280s)	Waiter uniform (2290s)	Waistcoat I	Waistcoat II	Waistcoat III
Turtleneck (Command)	Turtleneck (Engineering)	Turtleneck (Science)	Turtleneck (Medical)	Turtleneck (Cadet)

Annotations & Trivia:

• These uniforms (nicknamed "monster maroons") were originally designed by Robert Fletcher. Nilo Rhodis-Jamero was responsible for new designs and alterations in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Dodie Shepard for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and Robert Blackman for the TNG alterations.

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• The 2280s duty uniforms were worn in Star Trek II-VI, Star Trek: Generations, and the TNG episode "Cause and Effect". The 2330s duty uniforms were worn in the TNG episodes "Tapestry" and "Dark Page". These uniforms had the turtleneck shirt replaced with a crewneck shirt. The 2340s duty uniforms were worn in the TNG episodes "Yesterday's Enterprise" and "Family". The division-coloured shirt was now gone and so was the belt.

Timeline

2278 TNG Cause and Effect

2327 TNG Tapestry

2343 TNG Dark Page

2344 TNG Yesterday's Enterprise

2349 TNG Family

• Female officers could optionally wear a skirt instead of the pants. This was first seen in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

• Flag ranks had a narrow gold soutache next to the black wool border of the front flap. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, a second gold soutache was added to the uniform of the Commander-in-Chief.

• Aides wore a gold aiguillette, an ornamental braided cord, on their left shoulder. Another accessoire was a boatswain's pipe (or bosun's whistle) on a lanyard as seen in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

• The shoulder strap closing the tunic of commissioned personnel terminates on the back of the right shoulder in a round silver colored electronic security clearance device which allows its wearer free access to locked and restricted areas for which he has been specifically authorized. Consequently not all these electronic decoding keys are the same shape. These devices were wheels from model tank kits.

• Enlisted personnel did not wear a uniform jacket like commissioned officers but a jumpsuit. A black turtleneck denoted enlisted personnel, while a red turtleneck denoted enlisted trainees. The jumpsuits were not worn by cadets as some official publications claim. The jumpsuits were redresses of the TMP uniforms and stayed basically the same through all appearances. Name plates were added in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, probably to allow Scotty to identify Yeomen Burke and Samno when their bodies were discovered. In the TNG episode "Yesterday's Enterprise", enlisted jumpuits appeared withouth name plates and Starfleet insignia. The absence of the name plates is explained by the fact that the episode was produced one year before Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Whether the lack of Starfleet insignia was intentional or an oversight remains a mystery.

TNG Yesterday's Enterprise

• The bomber jacket was worn by Fleet Admiral Morrow in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, by Captain Montgomery Scott in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and by Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

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• The field jacked was introduced in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and later reused in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
• The field uniforms for ground combat and assault missions were introduced in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Commanding officers would wear a differently coloured uniform with a cut-out turtleneck shirt.

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• The protective suits were introduced in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and with some modifications reused in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and subsequent movies. Black rubber collars denoted commissioned officers and enlisted personnel while red rubber collars denoted officer cadets and enlisted trainees. As specified in Bob Fletcher's sketches, a red protective suit was worn by emergency fire workers. This suit first appeared in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. A modified protective suit with a turtneck collar instead of the rubber collar was introduced in Star VI: The Undiscovered Country where it was worn by the two Starfleet personnel who assassinated the Klingon Chancellor Gorkon. Another relict from Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a protective suit for maintenance workers. This suit appeared in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in a scene outside of the bridge simulator.

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• Medical uniforms were introduced in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Doctors would wear a jacket with a v-cut collar. Nurses and orderlies would stick to a jacket with a round collar. These uniforms were taken over from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

• The security uniforms with body armour were also taken over from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, dyed, and equipped with division sleeve bands and turtleneck collars. They were first used in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock when an intruder was detected in Captain Spock's quarters. They were also prominently featured in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country when Valeris vaporised a pot in the ship's galley.

• The prison guard uniforms made a single appearance in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock when Admiral Kirk and Commander Sulu extricated Cmdr. McCoy from a Starfleet prison facility.

• The athletic wear was worn by Lt. JG Saavik in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

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• The waiter uniforms made their debut in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock in the officer's lounge scene when Admiral Kirk tried to persuade Fleet Admiral Morrow to approve a tour to the Genesis planet. A different kind of waiter uniform was introduced in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country during a dinner in honour of the Klingon Chancellor Gorkon.

• There were also three different kinds of informal waistcoats. Variant I was worn by Captain Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Variant II was worn by Captain Kirk in Star Trek: Generations. Variant III was worn by Scotty in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

• Fabrics

• Commissioned personnel

  • Shirts: Light weight spandex/rayon jersey blend called Milliskin

  • Tunic: Wool elastique faced with light weight wool gabardine (white for command, beige for others). Black rayon lining.

  • Trousers: Wool elastique or light weight wool worsted

  • Fastenings of tunic (Snaps): Covered with black silk joined with sterling silver chain

   

• Enlisted personnel

  • All Materials – jumbo spandex – 2 layers in body of suit.

   

• Engineering protective suits

• Suits: Heavy weight cottons and nylon or dacron mixture (has slight stretch).

• Collars: polyethylene rubber

All collars quilted in ½” sections. Heights may vary for individual.

* Images from Christie's 40 Years of Star Trek auction.