STAR. TREK.

lateoctobermoon:

It’s AMAZING. An incredible resource. Hell, it even tells me what fabric they used in most of the captions, which makes me GIDDY WITH GLEE.

I’ll make a post later about the really really cool things in here, but something happened when I first opened the book. This was the first thing I saw:

EHEHEHE WESLEY

ARE THOSE STIRRUP PANTS

wait
Nemesis Romulans had stirrup pants…? (top right)

Hold the phone

Even the Klingon ambassador’s dignity isn’t spared?!

and apparently you put them in pants that will never ride up.

Do you know what this means?

GUL DUKAT WEARS STIRRUP PANTS

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vulcanlanguage:

thepandabetweenus asked:

Hi! Sorry to not use your normal askbox, but I wanted to include a link so I had to use fanmail instead. I was wondering about the Vulcan script that can be seen on Vulcan robes. If you’ve posted about this before, please let me know, but if not: I found this image that transcribes the symbols from one costume http://idrani.perastar.com/images/orthogImages/_notes/vulcanClothes.gif but what do they mean? And if you know, what are some other words or phrases that might be on Vulcan robes? Could you write them in calligraphy? I’m drawing Vulcan clothes as part of a project, and I want to make the script accurate if I can. Thank you so much if you can help, and thank you for running such a fabulous blog! 

The transcription of the runes in this image as the philosophical concept of c'thia is definitely wrong.

Most Vulcan robes - including the ones in your picture - carry a distinct inscription of three words: rata, tafar and tapan, meaning concept, mental discipline and cerebral process. The symbols for these look like this:

These are usually written on a vertical line. On actual robes, individual, more artistic versions are often used. Here are some examples of the use of rata, tafar and tapan on robes:

On a Vulcan burial robe:

On Sakkath’s diplomatic suit in TNG:

Or on Spock’s classic robe:

As you can see, all versions look slightly different - especially through the addition of dots here and there - but the runes are all in all the same.

Another symbol that can be found on robes is that of the Kolinar:

It too can be stylised into various forms without losing its meaning, as can be seen in this close-up of a Kolinar devout’s tunic:

This should, however, not be used on casual clothing and only on the robes of Vulcans affiliated with the Kolinar ritual.

I hope this helps - most of the credit goes to the wonderful Briht'uhn.

Sochya eh dif

T'Puhku

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graceleewhitney:

Lmao all the women in TOS originally were in pants until Grace Lee Whitney herself requested that they wear skirts, and the mini skirt was a female power symbol in the 60s stop acting like it’s the big mean sexist producers who wanted all the women in miniskirts so everyone could lust after them jfc

yes, 100% agree that mini skirts are not sexist. However, I think it’s a bit too simplistic to say simply that they were a female power symbol in the 60s - then, as now, feminists were torn on whether revealing styles like miniskirts were empowering or objectifying, and it was not just feminists who were wearing miniskirts. By the late 60s minis were no longer the super shocking fashion statements they were when they first came out and fashionable young women of all but the most conservative ideologies wore miniskirts. However, even after they lost their shock appeal they WERE still very strongly linked with mod youth culture.  I think feminism might have been an element of the decision to make the women’s uniforms mini-skirts in TOS, but i don’t think you can discredit the desire by the show’s producers to appear forward-looking and fashion conscious (and considering how women are objectified and ‘male gazed’ in other instances in TOS i don’t think you can totally toss out the sex appeal aspect either). //*steps off costume historian soapbox*

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