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Gerald Gurian is a 40+ year collector of screen used Star Trek memorabilia and a passionate fan of TOS
     
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Saturday, April 16, 2022

Christina Chong La'an Noonien-Singh Pilot Style Starfleet Duty Uniform from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Presented below are some detailed photos of a Christina Chong screen worn La'an Noonien-Singh Pilot Style Starfleet Duty Uniform from the new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds television series, the 8th live action adventure series in the history of the franchise, which is set to premiere on Thursday, May 5, 2022 on Paramount+.  This costume was recently on display in a special Strange New Worlds exhibit at Star Trek: Mission Chicago, a ViacomCBS sponsored fan convention that took place from April 8 - 10, 2022 at the massive McCormick Place center in Chicago, Illinois.  This attractive design is highly reminiscent of the female two-piece Starfleet uniforms that were seen in the initial pilot episodes of Star Trek TOS - "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before" - which featured a colored tunic matched with black pants as the standard female duty uniform prior to the introduction of the famous TOS miniskirt design at the start of filming of the regular season episodes.  Not only does this new design feature the two piece, black pants style of the pilot; but the tunic design is also characterized by long seam lines running down the left and right torso at the front of the costume - to replicate that feature of "The Cage" design.  Similar to the other new Strange New Worlds uniforms, this costume is infused with some delightful intricate new details, such as a subtle repeating decorative pattern that utilizes the well known TOS symbols of the crewmember's assigned starfleet division - Command, Sciences, Engineering or Medical - actually incorporated into sections of the uniform's fabric that runs along the length of the arms and shoulder areas of the garment.  All of the Starfleet uniforms in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds are the creations of Costume Designers Bernadette Cross and Gersha Phillips in the ST:SNW Costume Department.

Special thanks to my friend and fellow Star Trek fan T.J. Babinetz, who attended the Star Trek: Mission Chicago convention, for his very gracious permission to display his detailed photography of this costume in this article.    Just click on any of the images below to view an enlarged version ...

 



Note the bands of straight edged rank braid, similar to the style featured in the first Star Trek pilot The Cage, which is different from the scalloped edge style that was instituted during the filming of the regular season episodes of TOS.    Also, as observed throughout these recent photostudies, the color of the rank braid on the Strange New Worlds costumes will change based on Starfleet division:  Command uniforms feature Gold rank braid, Science uniforms feature Blue rank braid, Engineering uniforms feature Red rank braid, and Medical uniforms feature Silver rank braid ...




Note the near identical placement of the long seam lines running down the left and right sides on the front of the Strange New Worlds and TOS Cage female tunic designs ...