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This lovely lady is Droxine (Diana Ewing) from the episode entitled The Cloud Minders. It's a tale of class warfare and one of the socially relevant themed episodes that Star Trek and Gene Roddenberry were so wonderful at telling. The best part of this episode, aside from the awe of how her costume stayed on (really did they use tape or super glue?); was the fact that she was a love interest for Spock! What? Kirk isn't the one who gets to cozy up to the lovely Droxine? How did this happen? I'm sure Kirk was asking himself the same question.

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Droxine was the daughter of Plasus , the high advisor of Stratos on the planet Ardana . She lived a privileged life in the cloud city above the planet's surface. She, like her father, believed the Troglytes to be inferior beings.

Droxine appeared to be quite interested in the "very attractive" and "fascinatingly different" Spock , who seemed enamored with her as well, mirroring her father's earlier description of her by saying he had never met "a work of art" before. He was uncharacteristically open with her about the Vulcan mating ritual pon farr . Their conversation was interrupted by James Kirk calling for help. They found him with Vanna , a former retainer of their family, who intended to take Kirk as a hostage . It was then when Vanna revealed herself as a Disrupter . When she was taken by the guards, Droxine explained to Kirk and Spock that the Troglytes are not accustomed to light , warmth, or logic , and things were supposed to remain as they always had been.

She was present during the subsequent interrogation and torture of Vanna by Plasus, an action she explained by saying the Troglytes didn't respond to anything else.

Later, Droxine became troubled, wondering aloud to her father if the alternative solution of the filter masks might work. Her father, believing she was speaking of Kirk, forbade her to speak or think of him. Droxine clarified that it was Spock she cared for, adding that she imagined his sensitive ears would hear her if she called for him and come down to visit them. Upon hearing that Kirk had broken Vanna out of prison, Droxine defended their actions and questioned her and her father's beliefs.

After the zenite had been obtained in exchange for the filter masks, Droxine told Spock that she preferred the less technical term "protectors". She then expressed her wish to not be confined in the clouds, and her desire to visit the mines of Ardana, and even Vulcan . ( TOS : " The Cloud Minders ")

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• Droxine at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• Droxine at StarTrek.com

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“The Cloud Minders” Remastered Review + Video & Screenshots

| July 14, 2008 | By: Jeff Bond 104 comments so far

by Jeff Bond

Another entry in Star Trek ’s “struggle for freedom” sweepstakes, the late third season entry “The Cloud Minders” is distinguished by the spectacle of a floating sky city a dozen years before The Empire Strikes Back ’s Bespin (but about thirty years after a floating city in the Flash Gordon serials), a strong character actor guest star turn, and two of Bill Theiss’ most spectacular costumes.

Once again the Enterprise is rushing to cure a plague, this time a botanical one, and when Kirk and Spock beam down to a mining entrance on the surface of Ardana to pick up a life-saving consignment of Zienite they’re attacked by the Troglyte miner caste. After being rescued by the High Advisor Plasus (Jeff Corey) and a couple of guards, Kirk and Spock are beamed up toe Stratos City, the “finest example of sustained antigravity suspension” Spock has ever seen.

It turns out class warfare has erupted between the effete Stratos City dwellers, artists and thinkers all, and the worker class Troglytes, who do all the dirty work but are confined to the surface and mines of Ardana. In order to get his Zienite, Kirk’s got to get his hands dirty himself—first figuratively by interfering with Plasus and his brutal interrogation of one of the Troglyte leaders, Vanna (Charlene Polite), then literally when Vanna kidnaps him and holds him hostage in the mines.

Depending on who you talk to, “The Cloud Minders” is either one of the strongest entries in the third season or one of its worst. Writer David Gerrold was involved in rewriting Margaret Armen’s script, and he later pilloried the episode’s politics as it settles for merely the beginnings of negotiations between the Troglytes and Stratos City dwellers rather than outright rebellion—in Gerrold’s view it was like ending a story on the Civil War with mere talks about emancipating the slaves.

The episode itself has its strong points, not the least of which is the audacious idea of the floating city itself. Although achieved with the simplest of methods by the effects technicians of the era (in one shot it almost appears to have been pinned to some cotton clouds at the top of the soundstage cyclorama), Matt Jefferies’ set designs and the matte painting do give an impression of a floating city with the bare minimum of resources. Jeff Corey’s Plasus helps as well—he’s one of the more convincing politicians seen in the original series, a man who appears quite at home with the trappings of power, who’s able to deflect an insult like a diplomat but who will only be pushed so far by Kirk’s perceived meddling. He’s in strong conflict with Kirk throughout and while he’s shown to be dragged kicking and screaming into an understanding with the Troglytes at the epsiode’s finale, he’s not depicted as a 100% heavy either. He also has an easy and convincing relationship with his daughter Droxine.

Corey was a famed acting teacher (Paul Newman was one of his pupils) who still taught classes up to around the time of his death; his theory was to focus on a character’s differences from those around him and he had a wide range that’s barely suggested by his regal Star Trek performance. He played the vicious but cowardly villain menacing Kim “Miri” Darby in the John Wayne film True Grit and memorably foreshadowed the deaths of Butch and Sundance in George Roy Hill’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , telling his old outlaw friends “You’re gonna die and you’re gonna die bloody!” But he also does a magnificent job of scene stealing in the dark thriller Seconds by interrupting his explanation of how his company rejuvenates and creates new lives for its clients when he suddenly finds himself with an uncontrollable craving for the baked chicken meal that’s just been served to John Randolph (trust me, you have to see it to have any idea what I’m talking about).

If Corey is a strong presence, Diana Ewing’s Droxine is another matter, although give her this: she probably sports the finest abs ever displayed by an actress on the series, and Bill Theiss’ gravity-defying costume rivals and probably betters a similar hanging over-the-shoulder gown he designed for “Who Mourns For Adonais?” Ewing affects some of the patrician aura that Barbara Babcock did so well in her Trek appearances in “A Taste of Armageddon” and “Plato’s Stepchildren,” but without Babcock’s wit and intelligence. She comes across as something of a high class bimbo, which makes Spock’s wildly out of character flirtation with her all the more disappointing, despite some nice lines (“Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing.”). A bizarre piece of Nimoy-narrated montage only serves to make Spock look worse with some nonsensical lines (“The name Droxine seems particularly appropriate for her…”—meaning what? That she seems like a drug used to treat asthma and bronchitis?).

The fact that Spock would blithely discuss his secret Vulcan mating rituals with this woman is pretty much beyond the pale (at least in “Enterprise Incident” he was betraying his people’s privacy to obtain vital military secrets)—and check out the incredibly suggestive blocking as Droxine plaintively asks “Is there nothing that can disturb” the Vulcan mating cycle—as she kneels with her face in front of Spock’s stomach it sure looks like she’s got an awfully specific idea of what to try first.

In a way the casting works because Droxine seems noticeably less intelligent than the Troglyte Vanna. Charlene Polite (shown in at least one costume that rivals Droxine’s) brings a nice edge of bitterness and skepticism to her role as Kirk works to gain her trust. Shatner has a field day wrestling with her on his cloud city quarters’ bed (“Actually, I find this rather enjoyable…”) and he gives one of his better third season performances here. His display of the first symptoms of the stupidity-inducing Zienite gas is rather subtle, his face tightening into a taut, impatient mask as he fusses with his phaser while holding Vanna and Plasus hostage in the caves late in the game.

Kirk’s gambit of beaming Plasus down into the caves to demonstrate the effect of the gas is outrageous—he’s guilty of kidnapping, quite a serious crime—but by the time he executes the idea he’s been digging Zienite for a while and is arguably well under the influence of the gas himself. And the fight scene between Kirk and Plasus (played, like many third season episodes, to the tympani of Fred Steiner’s Ruk music from “What Are Little Girls Made of?”) could have been worse given Corey’s age at the time.

For me “Cloud Minders” holds together because it effectively suggests so much more than it shows—for one thing one of the few high-tech members of the Federation whose planets we see in the series, as well as a strong planetary leader and a multi-tiered society, and probably the most imaginative setting of the entire series. The episode also wraps up with one of the best musical cues of the series, an adaptation of Alexander Courage’s music simply titled “Enterprise In Orbit: Big” in the cue sheets, this was a piece of library music recorded for the series that was first heard in the second season episode “Catspaw,” but only heard in its entirety at the end of  “The Cloud Minders”—it repeats the last five notes of Courage’s Enterprise fanfare against a rising series of three note chords for a wonderfully majestic effect as the Enterprise leaves Ardana.

Given the beautiful matte paintings the CBS-Digital crew has conjured up for the Remastered project expectations were understandably high for what would be done with “The Cloud Minders,” and for the most part those expectations are met with an elegant, better-detailed and more elaborate take on Stratos. The episode actually begins with an interesting low angle on the Enterprise, darkly and moodily lit with high warp stars streaking past in the background as the ship rushes towards Ardana. Further shots of the ship are more familiar library angles but the opening shot sets the urgency of Kirk’s predicament nicely.

The after-commercial title card shot of the original made use of a NASA image shot over Saudi Arabia, and CBS-D reportedly tracked down the original photograph and enhanced it for the episode. In fact this is some of the most ambitious work CBS-D has done editorially in the entire run of the project—they fix a glaring error early in the episode when Kirk blurts out “Who are you? What’s the meaning of this attack?” and Shatner is shown with his mouth closed as the line plays over the scene; a different angle is used in the new cut so that Kirk’s face isn’t seen directly while the line is delivered. In order to incorporate the new cloud city shots and the cleaned-up NASA shot into the montage over Spock’s narration, the CBS-D team has also toyed with the order and duration of some of the other shots in the sequence, although it’s arguable that this odd bit of editorial work can be helped.

One of the worst effects in the original series was the cartoonish shot of a suicidal Troglyte jumping to his death, with a clearly two-dimensional black figure animated over the Saudi Arabia NASA shot. CBS-D adds a bit of Stratos architecture to put the shot in perspective and creates a new falling figure, although it’s still somewhat stiff.

While the new Stratos shots have much greater depth and detail (down to apparently an image of Droxine faintly visible on one of the exterior balconies), the effects crew still limits themselves to what could have been achieved at the time—while there is some movement of clouds in the background, the cottony wad of clouds that seem to support the city remain immobile and there are no shifts of perspective around the city. Ardana itself is rendered as almost Mars-like but with fluffy white clouds, nicely matching the look of the NASA orbital photograph. All in all, one of CBS-D’s better efforts and it’s nice to see this work expended on something a bit classier than “The Lights of Zetar.”

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We are waiting for the screenshots before the comments.

And for the blu ray edition with DVD on the other side.

not impressed !!

One of the better Season 3 episodes.

Yah, I hadn’t seen this one in a long time ’til this weekend. That Spock inner monologue bit was weird…

Nice job on the city and on the montage of shots during Spock’s monologue.

One mistake, though. After Kirk busted Vanna out of her cell, they showed the surface of the planet from Stratos, but they used the original shot and not the super-clean clear shot they used elsewhere. You can tell by the lack of color and the black splotches.

The original Arabia shot is mistakenly included in the montage above, but at least you can see the difference between the original and the new.

As for Plassus, I thought Jeff Corey’s performance was too hyper and angry in the first part of the episode. He should have been more cold and calculating, thus giving the “zienite gas fight scene” more weight.

Nice, detailed review, Jeff.

It’s been awhile since I saw this episode. I didn’t realize just how many bites of the apple they took re: shots of Stratos and the delta. Yikes, you need a serf to remind them, “It’s only a model.”

This ep, to me, is a coulda-been. It has the nice theme of class struggle, and what exactly you’re supposed to do about it if all you have is a starship. It’s also got Jeff Corey, who is far more memorable than most of the script.

IF Trek comes back to being a series, I would love to see them distribute plots like this throughout several episodes so that we can see things develop over time. E comes to Ardala — see a problem, gets some zienite and leaves. E comes back in next episode, between battles with the Klingons, and Kirk notices how deeply divided the society is. Etc., etc. This would allow the characters to build up to the emotions shown on the screen. Spock gettin’ an off-season rutt for Droxine might even begin to make sense.

Anyway, nice work CBS-D. Except (jeez, he couldn’t just finish there) the viewscreen on that looooong bridge scene is really sloppy. Sorry.

Anyway, the lingering shot of the E is gorgeous. Would love to see some movement in the windows… Uhura in her quarters mayhaps…

Droxine… hmmm, I’m no scholar but isn’t the name Droxine a reference to Greek myth (Star Trek referencing Greek myth you say!?! Gad zooks!)?

Wasn’t Droxine some rather spiteful brat but so beautiful the Gods wanted to get jiggy with her?

Anyho, I reckon that was what Spock’s line is about.

And I find the relationship with Droxine and Spock, er, logical. After all, she’s intellectually on Spock’s level (at least she thinks so). This is what attracts them to each other as much as great abs and exquisite ears. ;p

I’m sure this has been covered before…and this is probably the first comment i’ve ever left in the “Remastered Review” column…..but can anyone tell me why “we” as fans seem to accept that major change in color for the enterprise in the new effects shots?

I mean…generally speaking…we’re a fussy bunch. So…maybe i missed the uproar…but cmon….they completely change the look of the Big E.

The cloud “supporting” the city is only slightly better looking then the original, what a shame! No movement at the edges, it still looked air brushed. The whole sky needed a revamp and needed to be rotoscoped in all the back ground shots. Liked the opening shot of the”E” haulin a$$ though.

This episode fascinated me as a child. I’m looking forward to seein it again. As for the CBS-D work, it could have been better on this ep!

I knew once I raised that point about Droxine’s name someone would point out what it really meant! I’ve always wondered about that.

As for the Enterprise, it’s gray–the shots where it looks white, which were run throughout the series, are of the pilot version of the model (which I believe was a lighter gray but still not pure white), which leads to a rather consistent, er, inconsistency throughout the original series. But if you look at episodes as early as “Space Seed” the ship is clearly gray, not white.

Jeff, you mean “Girls,” not “Girl’s.”

9. garen – “can anyone tell me why “we” as fans seem to accept that major change in color for the enterprise in the new effects shots?”

I think the new model is accurate in color. The problem was with the processing of the original shots which, depending on the effects, often veered too far off from the actual color. In the old shots the E changes from gray to blue to even greenish over the course of the series.

“can anyone tell me why “we” as fans seem to accept that major change in color for the enterprise in the new effects shots?”

Silly me. I always thought the ‘true’ color was a vibrant bluish-white. Somewhere around this site, there was a comparison that showed the E changing from white to grey to pink (!) to blue. And that’s not even counting the two kinds of nacelle ends that alternate throughout the series. It’s like Dick York and Dick Sargent being in the same episode. Yikes.

It’s great that they fixed that editing error with Kirk’s mouth closed, but hearing his voice. I believe that the VHS and DVD versions had both at different times.

I’ll have to go and listen to that “Enterprise in orbit” music cue at the end again, I didn’t know about that.

Overall, the new CGI was a welcome addition. The opening shot of the Enterprise in the teaser was seemingly a new angle. I’m looking for anything new these days as the last few episodes are broadcast.

This story reminds me so much of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.

I had so much anticipation for this episode based on the screenshots, as a “floating city in the sky” certainly fires the imagination.

The new matte shot is gorgeous. And the planet orbit shots are just fine.

But boy… the rest of it is really really disappointing. I was expecting a really cool shot of the sky and clouds from the angle of the planet. Just seeing a realistic city floating in the sky would have added SO much to this episode. Yet, it comes off as half-baked. It looks just as fake now as it did then… perhaps worse. I cannot believe they didn’t bother to rotoscope a new shot of the sky… they did one for “Wink of an Eye”… why not here where it was even easier to do?

I’m happy about the Remastered project, but damn, if it doesn’t annoy me just as much… “missed it by that much!”

I always got a great belly laugh from this episode when we cut from Spock chatting up Droxine to Kirk and Vanna then suddenly back to Spock & Droxine where their discussing Ponn Farr. Always set’s off the old WTF?!? alarm in my head. LOL.

Like ol’ Spocko was trying to get a little action on the away mission.

I hadn’t seen this episode in years and what really struck me is that montage with Spock’s voice over, it’s a real Ed Wood moment.

All I’ve found so far is Droxine as a brand name of Levothyroxine, a synthetic hormone replacement “usually given to patients with thyroid problems, specifically, hypothyroidism. It is also given to people who have goiter or an enlarged thyroid gland.”

I look forward to your theories as to what in blazes Spock meant by an appropriate name.

Here’s one: though it wasn’t Droxine per se, there was a 1995 scandal about a pharmaceutical company suppressing researching that generic levothyroxine was just as effective as its own brand. This was long after TOS, but the episode’s in the future, and Spock has an encyclopedic memory. So perhaps he meant she was disingenuously overvalued compared to generic alternatives.

It’s a shame how ”budget conscious” the effects ”improvements” are throughout the revamp of the original series. In comparison to the digital remastering and the music re-recording, the CGI efforts are far below par.

Honestly, I have been less than impressed overall and have kept silent up to now. There are perhaps a couple re-done matte paintings of suitable caliber, but the rest are cartoonish at best and look unfinished and rushed. I get this image of the TOS-R CGI artists jabbering on their mobile phones trying to line up their next gig while doing the TOS-R effects with one hand shifting back and forth between the mouse and keyboard.

Is this harsh? Yep. But if the shoe fits…

It is just monumentally sad when the effects in the fan-produced series’ like Star Trek New Voyages and Starship Exeter are better by orders of magnitudes than the half-baked attempt by the CGI artists on the TOS-R — who are so much better than their efforts here show. It’s shameful. ”True fans” would have gone all-out regardless of the budget. The effects on TOS-R aren’t good enough even for a demo reel.

Honestly, I’d love to see a group of renegade CGI fan artists have a go at the original series — just a couple episodes. The opening teaser of the unfinished Starship Exeter’s ”Tressaurian Intersection” is worth a look if anyone is curious — and no — I’m not associated with any of the fan-produced series’.

CBS should have hired the Dave School to do their redux. It would have been the opportunity of a lifetime, giving a bunch of budding CGI students a chance to show off their stuff, and the experience they would have come away with would have been invaluable — and the work would have been far better.

Sorry CBS, but you blew it.

Another episode ruined by Fred Freiberger. Like Dorothy Fontana’s story that became “The Way to Eden” , David Gerrold’s original story, entitled “Castles in the Sky” turned out very differently and again DeForrest Kelly is the big loser. So instead of McCoy crashing in a shuttlecraft on the planet’s surface where he becomes involved in helping the dilithium miners who are suffering from slave like work conditions and disease, causing Kirk and Spock to intervene in the planet’s politics,we have Kirk and Spock handing out free gas masks to keep them Troglytes happy and working.

The original story as written by Gerrold was to be a morality play. KIrk comes up with no real solution to the differences but does get the 2 sides talking. McCoy’s response is “Right, but how many children will die in the meantime”

Fredc Frieberger wanted happy endings so out goes David Gerrold’s script and in comes Margaret Armen to do a whole new script.

Jeff, you got the story idea part wrong. Margaret Armen wrote the script based on David Gerrold’s original story, not the other way around

I don’t believe that Spock actually went into detail about Ponn Farr. There was an episode of Enterprise, (And yes it is canon, the producers say so) where a Vulcan tells Trip that Vulcans are driven to mate every 7 years. He does not say how they are driven, thus showing that they didn’t know about it in “Amok Time.” It is possible Spock told Droxine the same thing, without going into too much detail.

One thing that I liked about this episode was that, since this planet was already a member of the Federation, They could help them out without having to worry about the Prime Directive. That’s why there was no complaint about the masks, Although I thought they were ugly.

It was also one of the few episodes where the main pretty woman was with someone other than Kirk. In this case it was Spock.

For a long time I have been looking forward to seeing what they would do to Stratos in the FX. And I say I was not dissappointed. I say that even though the FX in some were not perfect, THey were a big improvement from the original.

Another very good review

“although give her this: she probably sports the finest abs ever displayed by an actress on the series”

Yay brother.

“Depending on who you talk to, “The Cloud Minders” is either one of the strongest entries in the third season or one of its worst.” Very cagily put considering the disagreement some give you at times.

And silly me…I remember now. How could I have mixed up Jeff Corey’s appearance with Alias Smith and Jones?

19. We reach on the WTF moment of Spock chatting up Droxine!

Know what REEEEALY bugs me about this ep? The dialogue! It seems like everyone punctuated their lines with “For what purpose?” (Acutally, it was only three people: Kirk, Spock, and Vanna, but it seemed like more.) I wanted to throw them a thesaurus, have them use “Why?” or even “How come?”

Did you see the big goof that the remaster people got right? When the action resumes after the teaser and opening credits, and Kirk and Spock are wrapped up in those whips, you hear Kirk say,” Who are you? What’s the meaning of htis attack?” **without moving his lips!** In the remastered version, they re-use a shot of the troglytes and now Kirk is heard off camera.

Finally fixed that! It only took 40 years!

22: You’ll get your chance. Just give me a few more weeks to get a reel together.

Hate to say it, but the name “Droxine” is almost certainly a play on “Hydroxyzine,” a drug sythesized in the 1950’s as an antihistamine which turned out to have powerful anti-anxiety properties.

It is an effective “sedative, hypnotic, and tranquiliser,” just like Plasus’ daughter.

This is not really a comment on this piece, but an overdue post on Jeff Bond’s reviews in general. Nowhere in recent memory have I seen more perceptive and informed critiques of Trek (and no, I’m not related to him). As a trekker since the early dinnertime syndication days–circa 1971–and a fairly smug TOS know-it-all, I have to tip my ears to him. If only we could combine his reviews and Asherman’s Star Trek Compendium into one resource…Now THAT would be great.

We’re getting near the end of remastered episodes. I’m going to miss seeing new TOS footage. It’s as close as I can get to new TOS without actually getting new TOS.

As much as I liked the initial shot we got of the matte, I dislike the view of the cloud city from the ground.

To quote Senator Vreenak:

“It’s a FAAAAAKE!”

I would have to agree. Jeff has lots little insights of a true fan that I enjoy. I especially enjoy his care and interest in the details like the music. I just bought your book by the way Jeff. Good reading through the late nights feeding my new son who just arrived Friday..

Too bad they couldn’t ‘remaster’ the dialogue into something decent. It could have used an overhaul, including that silly inner monologue from Spock.

“One thing that I liked about this episode was that, since this planet was already a member of the Federation, They could help them out without having to worry about the Prime Directive.”

That’s what actually makes the story even worse! How on earth could this planet have been admitted to the Federation and they don’t know that they practice slavery on a planetary scale?

One thing really bothers me about this episode. Ardana is a full-fledged member of the Federation, a body that is made out to be composed of progessive, peaceful societies. Yet it’s pretty much run by a dictator who freely uses torture, unilaterally orders the execution of a Starfleet captain, etc. A planet like this is in the Federation? I don’t think so.

Don’t mind me. I’m overdue for my Droxine treatment.

This is the kind of Trek story I dislike the most. There is little story because the writers were more intent on promoting a social or political idea than writing a good story line which would keep us entertained. I don’t mind stories that raise ethical questions but the situation and events of the story should lead to ethical, social or political questions. In this episode, the authors first desire is to promote certain social or political ideologies so they write a story/script around the idea they are trying to promote. Those stories are usually the most boring, uneventful, contrived and disjointed.

The story should raise the ethical questions rather than the ethical questions create the story. The later is too contrived, simplistic and insulting.

Maybe they’ll start remastering TAS next.

I also liked Jeff’s review. Perhaps we should start reviews of the reviewers.

When watching this episode, my take on Spock talking about Pon Farr is that because he is half human, he tended to take things a little too the extreme to “prove” his Vulcanity (if that is a word). This episode, to me, showed that he was starting to get more confortable with his human side, believing that it could be an asset–being less uptight, if you will. He was trying to convince Dramamine–or whatever her name–of the error of her ways, and was using tools of The Arts and Beauty and sexuality to do it.

The Enterprise is awfully big. Imagine how much grief they could avoid if they just set aside the closet space to keep, oh, say, 5 canisters of Zenite, a baggie full of Ryetalin and a few spare Dilithium crystals on hand.

Get your Zenite here…

http://www2.dupont.com/Automotive/en_US/products_services/engineeringPlastics/zeniteLCP.html

… and another thing… Did you notice that the class M planet was NOT too EARTH-LIKE. They CAN do it and keept the sky color correct!

Jeff , your comment about Spock’s bizzaro comment about Droxine was priceless!

Did anyone else feel that a special little “warp streak” effect (in honor of the end of the YOS remastering effort) would have been in order in the last sequence of this ep?

Check it out…the Enterprise is supposedly warping out at high speed to bring the cure to the botanical plague planet…with the clock ticking. I thought a special little warp streak would have tied this nicely into what would come later in the movies…but maybe I was hoping for a bit too much.

Oh well…

Not for nothing…but am I the only person who was left wondering how a full member of the Federation could be getting away with essentially apartheid-like policies (if not outright slavery) without causing alarm bells to start ringing back in San Francisco’s Federal Council Chamber?!?

Or was that Zienite crap so important to establishing new colonies that a whole group of high ranking Federation somebodies were turning a blind eye?!? I ask because Kirk even stated that he had previously visited the planet…and he didn’t notice anything odd about their society?!?

The toleration of Ardanan slavery by the rest of the Federation simply mirrors a situation found much too often in real life: ANY parties with a (virtual) monopoly on something desperately needed get away with ANYTHING. Consider, for instance, the stranglehold that the oil-exporting nations and the oil companies have on the economy (as in the high fuel prices)

Here are some thoughts about the “caste” system in this episode and why the Federation would permit such a thing on one of it’s member worlds. This is, of course, pure speculation, but I’ll run with it nonetheless.

It is implied in this episode (though not specifically stated) that the troubles with the troglytes was a fairly recent development. My guess is that Vanna probably had a lot to do with it, since she seemed to be in charge of the Disruptors. Her time away from the mines allowed her intellect to develop and when she realized how unjustly her people were being treated, she began to take action. Since no one on the planet’s surface had apparently raised a fuss before, there was no reason to believe anything was wrong.

It’s stated that the troglytes were believed to be “mentally inferior.” This is, of course, due to their exposure to the gas in the mines. The thing is, no one knew that until Dr. McCoy figured it out. Before that, the troglytes were simply thought of as “slow” (for lack of a better term). Even advanced civilizations have a history of exploiting those who seem to be of limited intellect as manual labor, and again, since no one knew there was a problem, no one asked any questions. As a side note, just how exactly did McCoy get a sample of Zenite for his tests when Kirk was having a devil of a time obtaining the exact same ore? And what leap of logic made him test the stuff in the first place, since he hadn’t been present at any of the discussions on the surface or on Stratos?

Finally, it’s fairly obvious from the episode that the ruling governance of the planet worked very hard to keep any perceived “human rights violations” strictly on the down-low. Since most of the planet’s areas of interest were located on Stratos (and perhaps other floating cities as well), and since the troglyte’s access to Stratos was heavily restricted, there would be few ocassions for off-worlders to even notice them or their plight. I’m also betting they had a fairly well-structured propaganda machine in place to keep a positive spin on things. This is not so very far-fetched, as it happens in this day and age all the time.

Like I said, all purely speculative, but not so hard to believe, given the limited glimpse of daily life we were exposed to in the episode. Feel free to discuss, debate, etc.

Too bad they couldn’t do anything about the glaring continuity error that occurs when Kirk and Vanna escape to the mines at the end of the third act. Twenty quatloos to the first trekmovie.com visitor who correctly answers what I’m talking about :)

34. I’m with you, Sean! Not only is Spock’s meditative thoughts weird, then he goes and LIES to Droxine! He said, “Your movements awakened me.” He was obviously NOT asleep. Liar, liar, Vulcan pants on fire!

Uh…Pass me a dose of Droxine, please. No, the PILLS. Sheesh!

46: Scott, I have been meaning to contact you for some time now. I have to talk to you about YOUR digital enterprise model!

any one see Droxine’s MySpace page. My girlfriend gave my that WTF look because I was laughing so hard… all I had to say was “Star Trek” and she new not to ask. But check it out. The song actualy sounds to me like something she would say.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=143661510

That over the shoulder shot of the city is HORRIBLE. Wow. How that got approved I will never know. Serious lack of quality control.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

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William Ware Theiss: In & Out of Uniform

Star Trek’s space couture is universally recognized, but the man who pioneered them is virtually unknown. Let’s fix that.

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“In early 1988, I wrote William Theiss a fan letter. At the time I was trying to duplicate the TNG uniforms, so I included a few questions about the materials and construction of the studio costumes,” says Dennis Russell Bailey, one of the writers of The Next Generation ’s episode “Tin Man." “To my complete surprise, he called me a week later at what would have been about Six [in the morning] Los Angeles time. He began by saying ‘I don't write replies to fan mail but if the letter is fairly intelligent sometimes I call.’"

The Star Trek designs of William Ware Theiss are legendary. His uniforms for The Original Series and The Next Generation are so iconic that they’ve become visual shorthand for science fiction. Everyone knows these costumes, even if they’re not Star Trek fans.

While the works are famous, their creator is something of an enigma, largely unknown even to longtime fans. He was a private man, giving few interviews. As a gay man in the early days of gay liberation and then in the era of the AIDS crisis, he may have been circumspect in regards to how fans and the public saw him. Let’s piece together his life and career to get a brief but cohesive look at Starfleet’s first fashion stylist.

Early Voyages

William Ware “Bill” Theiss was born on Nov. 20th, 1931 in Medford, MA, to Harold H. Theiss, an engineer, and Helen H. Theiss (Freeman). The family resided in the Boston area until 1941, relocating to Bremerton, WA, for the duration of World War II.

Upon graduating from Lowell in 1948, Bill attended Stanford University, emerging in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts as an art major with minors in sciences, biology and chemistry. He was the designer and head artist for the 1952 Stanford Quad yearbook.

Four years in the U.S. Navy followed, with Theiss primarily stationed at Treasure Island at San Francisco, and a year in the Pacific, stationed at Kwajalein, during which he witnessed hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.

Following his discharge, Theiss made a brief, failed attempt to be an artist in New York. “I was not really good enough, so decided to go back to school,” Theiss said in the 1968 interview “Behind the Camera” for the Inside Star Trek newsletter. So he attended Art Center in Pasadena, California. His first Hollywood job was six-months as an apprentice artist in the Advertising Art Department at Revue Studios (Universal). He then started work at CBS, in charge of the wardrobe department for two half-hour "soaps," Full Circle and Clear Horizon .

In late 1959, while doing uncredited wardrobe work on pickups for Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus , Theiss was introduced to a young “smart aleck” member of the typing pool named Dorothy Fontana (who provided many quotes for this article via the email correspondence we shared during her life). The two quickly became friends and would remain so for the rest of his life.

With work slow, Theiss skipped off to Europe to work wardrobe on the films, Island of Love and America America , and The Pink Panther , credited as “wardrobe consultant”, but the L.A. Times later reported him to have created “fashion designs” for actress/model Capucine.

Trek Into the Fantastic

Returning to Hollywood, Theiss’s first foray into the fantastic was My Favorite Martian , which led to a  job as costume designer for science fiction legend Ray Bradbury’s stage production “The World of Ray Bradbury," three one-act plays which included an adaptation of the short story ‘The Veldt’. Theiss recalled it offered him “a marvelous opportunity to do lavish futuristic costumes appropriate for the time and setting of the 1990's.”

In his review of the production Frederick Patten of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS) singled out “The Veldt”, writing: “The result was quite interesting; the basic designs were not too unlike current styles, but just enough different in material and cut to call your attention to them...George Hadley's neon-blue necktie and Lydia's fur skirt were the standout pieces to me.”

The October 1964 play was the turning point in Theiss’s career because his “smart aleck” friend Dorothy talked it up to her new boss: Gene Roddenberry.

“After Gene saw the play, I was set to do the first Star Trek pilot.”

Theiss created a futuristic look for Star Trek by using materials “wrong” side out, employing then-new fabrics like velour and odd materials like foam for landing party jackets. He created uniforms and casual wear, rags for illusory survivors, metallic alien gowns, and sexy yet TV-safe costuming for the iconic green Orion dancing girl.

But Star Trek ‘s pilot was rejected so Theiss went back to wardrobe and the occasional costuming gig for series like The Dick Van Dyke Show , Gidget , and The Donna Reed Show . Theiss returned for Star Trek ’s unexpected second pilot, which sold, but had to keep working gigs until series production started.

Notable was The Farmer's Daughter episode ”Katy in a Capsule,” in which beautiful Inger Stevens dreamed she was the first lady astronaut. “I designed her wild, fantastic costumes, which were great fun, because at the same time they had to be absurd, high fashion, and pseudo-scientific.”

Theiss got another chance to stretch his science fiction design muscles for a second Bradbury play called "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit" (and, during Trek ’s second season, a third Bradbury show, “The Anthem Sprinter”) before shipping off on a three-year deployment aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.

Beaming Up and Dressing Up the Enterprise Crew

With Star Trek , Theiss had finally landed his first series gig as a Hollywood costume designer. This initially involved redesigning the starship Enterprise wardrobe.

“The uniforms were a committee design,” Theiss complained.

One such “committee” decision was discarding the women’s pants in favor of the then-trendy miniskirt. Dorothy Fontana said Roddenberry “wanted sexier uniforms”.“I just didn’t think that the women should be in pants...I think I wanted to look like Flash Gordon,” Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Rand) told me before her death in 2015.

Short skirts were nothing new to movie and TV sci-fi but Theiss managed to imbue his form-fitting miniskirts with a flair that made them look passably professional even while absurdly mini.

In addition to her mini, Whitney credited Theiss with Rand’s maxi hairdo. “It was composed of two Max Factor wigs woven together over a mesh cone,” Whitney said in her memoir. To this author, she said, “We just kept going back and forth to Gene’s room, and back and forth, and he kept saying, ‘No, higher.’”

Most infamous were his designs for “will she or won’t she fall out of it” couture for many guest stars.

“He felt that revealing non-sexual flesh (the outside of the leg, off one shoulder, the back) promised that the viewer would see more—but they never did,” said Fontana, citing as exemplar the Lt. Palamas (Leslie Parrish) gown for “Who Mourns for Adonais.”

Theiss agreed, telling Fontana, “I feel this design, while Greek in feeling, was a completely fresh idea,” describing it as one of his favorites.

Coming Back Down to Earth

Then Star Trek was over and seemingly done. However, Theiss never entirely escaped Roddenberry’s orbit, costuming the Roddenberry-scripted and produced cinematic bomb Pretty Maids All In a Row , followed by the TV movie/pilot Genesis II and its retooled and redesigned sequel Planet Earth . For the latter, Theiss designed attractive two-color one-piece jumpsuit uniforms which prefigure those on Star Trek: The Next Generation .

In Variety he was announced as “special consultant” on the animated Star Trek series, likely acknowledging the reuse of his costume designs.

Many feature films in the 70s featured Theiss designs, notably the classic Harold and Maude , and 1976’s Bound for Glory , for which he received an Oscar nomination. In 1978 he beamed back to the Enterprise for the prospective Star Trek TV series revival but found his hands tied by a budget-driven decision to keep the uniforms close to those he’d designed in 1966. Despite that restriction, he tried to break loose with alternate tailoring and new leisure wear more modern for the time. But when that TV Trek was canceled, Theiss returned to the big screen.

But months later the first Star Trek movie started up under director Robert Wise.

“Bill came In from a motion picture location shoot in Colorado where he was working to show Wise his ideas for the movie,” said Fontana. “Mr. Wise apparently was not too Impressed. Bill shrugged his shoulders and went back to the western he was working. When Star Trek—The Motion Picture and Butch and Sundance, The Early Days came up for Oscar consideration, Bill was nominated for Costume Design. Star Trek—The Motion Picture was not. Point made.”

In 1981, he did a special dress design commission for that “smart aleck” friend, Fontana. “Bill designed my wedding dress of blue-grey lace, off the shoulder and cocktail length,” she enthused.

Theiss received his third and final Oscar nomination for 1983’s Heart Like a Wheel , but winning a big industry award remained elusive.

The Disney Sunday Night Movies was a Theiss’s staple in the mid 80s and he designed a dozen of them, including a favorite of many children, “Mr. Boogedy”. But in 1987 Roddenberry came calling again for Star Trek: The Next Generation , handing Theiss the chance to do what Robert Wise had not: redesign the future he had created, and set the standard for Star Trek ’s uniforms from 1987 through the Picard series.

Bill’s Big Goodbye

But what was Theiss like? People who knew him from The Original Series described him as “witty,” “talkative,” “intelligent and talented,” and “a real class act,” then—often in the same sentence—added “prickly,” “extremely intense,” “talented, but difficult," and “rude.” Star Trek veteran Robert Justman described Theiss on TNG as “still impatient, still contentious, still very private.”

It was for The Next Generation that Theiss finally won an industry award: the Emmy for Outstanding Costume Design for a series for “The Big Goodbye.” The seeming irony is his Star Trek win was not for 24th century costuming, but early ’40s noir. What viewers miss but Hollywood caught was Theiss wasn’t merely using stock 1940s wardrobe, but design for effect, evoking pulp detective fiction by mixing and matching for the best effect without being authentically “period”.

In the autumn of 1988, Theiss was a guest at a Trek convention in Richmond, Virginia. In attendance, and wearing the uniforms they’d made with the help of Theiss’s surprise phone call, were Dennis Russell Bailey and his friend Lisa. They spotted Theiss, looking a little lost, hugging a large paper grocery bag.

They introduced themselves. Theiss set his paper bag down on the carpet and talked with them.

“Finally, a friend asked if Mr. Theiss would take a picture with us,” Bailey says. “He agreed and, as Lisa and I took our positions to either side, he said with a slight smile, ‘Would you like to have this in the picture?’

“Reaching down into the paper bag at his feet, he brought out the Emmy he'd recently won.

“We've referred to that, ever after, as the day that we met Bill and Emmy Theiss.”

William Ware Theiss left Star Trek behind after the first season of The Next Generation , reportedly suffering from the effects of AIDS. He passed away three years later in 1991, but his iconic creations and the descendants it inspired live on in the 21st century, and perhaps, beyond.

This article is dedicated to the late Dorothy Fontana, who vetted much of the research.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In addition to Dorothy, the author gratefully acknowledges the following for their invaluable help and assistance: Andrea Weaver, Grace Lee Whitney, Michael Kmet, David Tilotta, Dennis Russell Bailey, Richard S. Boswell, Sherilyn Connelly, the San Francisco Clerk’s office and the libraries and alumni associations of Lowell High School and Stanford University. Ron & Jennifer Coleman for funding the research. And last but not least, Ryan Thomas Riddle for his insightful notes on the piece.

Maurice Molyneaux (he/his) is a screenwriter, filmmaker, 20 year veteran of the computer game biz and was a designer on “Star Trek—Deep Space Nine: The Crossroads of Time”. You can hit his subspace frequency on Twitter @8bit_Maurice.

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• Four-way stretch moisture-wicking microfiber fabric
• Elastic waistband with a flat white drawstring
• Mesh side pockets

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Star Trek: Discovery Command Uniform Throw Pillow

Give your decor an out-of-this-world upgrade with this Star Trek: Discovery Command Uniform Pillow. Inspired by the command uniforms within the DISCO series, this Star Trek: Discovery pillow is perfect for command division members and Star Trek: Discovery fans alike.

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Star Trek: Voyager Command Uniform Sherpa Blanket

Even those in the command division need some R&R! With a soft mink front inspired by the command uniforms of the U.S.S. Voyager crew members, this comfy Star Trek: Voyager Command Uniform Sherpa Blanket is perfect to throw over your shoulders after a busy day. With a soft mink front and cozy sherpa back, this Star Trek: Voyager blanket is a must-have addition to your personal quarters.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Command Uniform Beach Towel

Make your next beach vacation the best one yet with this Star Trek: The Next Generation Command Uniform Beach Towel. Perfect for crew members in the command division, this soft Star Trek: The Next Generation beach towel keeps you dry while showing off your love for your team.

• Whether at the beach or pool you will use this beach towel as your favorite accessory all summer!
• Measures: 30"x60".
• Made Of: 100% Velour Terry Cotton.
• Care: Please wash before using towel. Pile and softness will return.

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Star Trek: Discovery Men's Copper Operations Uniform

Did you know that the Uniforms for Star Trek: Discovery were based on actual NASA uniforms? That is why they are so stylish. The Star Trek: Discovery Men's Copper Operations Uniform looks just like the one worn by Shazad Latif as Security Officer Lt. Ash Tayler in the series. The lined blue top features a copper Starfleet badge and additional copper accents.

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Star Trek: The Original Series Engineering Uniform Athletic Shorts

Planning a trip to Risa, Casperia Prime, or maybe Freecloud is more your vibe? Don't forget to pack these Star Trek: The Original Series Engineering Uniform Adult Shorts in your suitcase! Channel your inner Paul Stamets, Montgomery Scott or Georgi LaForge in these amazing red uniform shorts featuring the Engineering Badge! With mesh side pockets, water-repellant fabric, and elastic waistband, you can't go wrong rocking these amazing shorts on your next adventure.

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Star Trek: Discovery Command Uniform Sherpa Blanket

Whether you are unwinding after a long day aboard the U.S.S. Discovery or settling in for a Star Trek marathon, you will love snuggling up in this Star Trek: Discovery Command Uniform Sherpa Blanket. With a soft mink front inspired by the DISCO command uniforms and a cozy sherpa back, this Star Trek: Discovery blanket will become your favorite household accessory.

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Star Trek: Discovery Command Uniform Beach Towel

From pool days to beach vacation, this Star Trek: Discovery Command Uniform Beach Towel is a must-have accessory for DISCO fans. Inspired by the command uniforms within the DISCO series, this soft towel lets you lounge or dry off while showing your pride for the command division aboard the U.S.S. Discovery.

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Star Trek: Voyager Command Uniform Throw Pillow

The perfect accent pillow for Star Trek: Voyager fans and command division members alike, this Star Trek: Voyager Command Uniform Pillow instantly elevates your home decor. Featuring a design inspired by the command uniform of Voyager crew members, this Star Trek: Voyager pillow is a fun addition to your room, media room, dorm, and more.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Command Uniform Throw Pillow

If you are in the command division on your starship, then you deserve some R&R every now and then! Inspired by the command uniform of crew members aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, the Star Trek: The Next Generation Command Uniform Pillow lets you relax in comfort while showing some pride for your division.

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Star Trek: The Original Series Command Uniform Sherpa Blanket

Being in the command division takes a lot of skill, energy, and focus. That is why you will love relaxing in your quarters with this Star Trek: The Original Series Command Uniform Sherpa Blanket draped around your shoulders. With the colors of the Star Trek: The Original Series command uniform on the soft mink front and a cozy sherpa back, this Star Trek blanket is a must-have for all crewmembers aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.

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Star Trek: The Original Series Command Uniform Beach Towel

Just because you take a vacation from commanding the U.S.S. Enterprise doesn't mean you can't represent your division! Inspired by the command uniform of crew members aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, this Star Trek: The Original Series Command Uniform Beach Towel will make your next beach vacation out of this world.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Command Uniform Tote Bag

You can let everyone know your status in the command division by throwing this spacious Star Trek: The Next Generation Command Uniform Tote Bag over your shoulder. Featuring a design inspired by the iconic red command uniform, this Star Trek: The Next Generation tote bag will become any fan’s favorite accessory.

• Dimensions: Bag 15" x 15"
• Maximum weight limit: 44lb
• Handle length: 11.8".
• Made Of: 100% spun polyester fabric, Dual handles 100% natural cotton bull denim.
• Care: Handwash.

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Star Trek: The Original Series Command Uniform Premium Tote Bag

Whether you are commanding a starship or heading to class, this Star Trek: The Original Series Command Uniform Tote Bag lets you store everything you need for the day in one secure place while showing off your command division status. Featuring the iconic yellow uniform and command division badge, this Star Trek: The Original Series tote bag is a must-have addition to your style.

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Star Trek: Discovery Women's Command Uniform

Step onto the bridge and take control this Halloween with the Star Trek: Discovery Women's Command Uniform. Whether you are dressing up as Michael Burnham, the Shenzhou Captain Philippa Georgiou, or assuming command of your own spaceship, this uniform will let everyone know who's in charge. This Star Trek: Discovery outfit features the standard-issue navy blue uniform of all Federation crew members, as well as the gold trim that signifies command personnel. Includes a shirt with Starfleet insignia and zipper, a matching pair of pants, and boot tops.

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Star Trek: Discovery Women's Copper Operations Uniform

Look as stylish as Cadet Sylvia Tilly this Halloween when you put on the Star Trek: Discovery Women's Copper Operations Uniform. This lined blue shirt with copper accents is a replica of the style worn by Mary Wiseman as Cadet Tilly in Star Trek: Discovery. It features copper shoulder braids and a copper Starfleet emblem.

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Star Trek: Discovery Women's Gold Command Uniform

Step onto the bridge and take control this Halloween with the Star Trek: Discovery Women's Gold Command Uniform. Whether you are dressing up as Michael Burnham, the Shenzhou Captain Philippa Georgiou, or assuming command of your own spaceship, this uniform will let everyone know who is in charge.

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Star Trek: The Original Series Women's Deluxe Science Uniform

You'll look like you stepped off the Starship Enterprise when you wear this  Star Trek: The Original Series Women's Deluxe Science Uniform. This costume includes a form-fitting blue dress with a black collar shiny gold wrist bands and a replica Star Trek emblem pin. Look your best and impress Star Trek fans young and old in this officially licensed costume.

• 100% Polyester
• Embroidered Star Fleet emblem on front
• Metallic band around forearms

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Star Trek: The Original Series Women's Deluxe Command Uniform

You'll look like you stepped off the Starship Enterprise when you wear the  Star Trek: The Original Series  Women's Deluxe Command Uniform. This costume includes a gold, form fitting long sleeved mini dress with a black collar, shiny gold wrist bands, and a replica Star Trek emblem pin. Look your best and impress Star Trek fans young and old in this costume.

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Star Trek: The Original Series Deluxe Spock Uniform

Suit up for duty with this fresh Star Trek: The Original Series Deluxe Spock Uniform and you'll look and feel as good as new! Made of 100% polyester, this pullover shirt with a v-neck and raglan cut sleeves will keep you cool while you’re making the crucial decisions you never get credit for! It’s also got an embroidered Starfleet emblem and metallic ribbon sleeve stripes, because what’s the point of being out in space if you can’t have some seriously far-out, from the next galaxy type-a style? Live long and prosper, indeed!

• 100% polyester
• Pullover shirt has V-neck and raglan cut sleeves
• Embroidered Starfleet emblem and metallic ribbon sleeve stripes
• Original series style, finally available in our century!

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Star Trek: The Original Series Spock Dog Costume

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