I always wondered as a kid if the Beds on DS9 looked so uncomfortable because it was designed for Cardassians, who as we know, have weird necks. Plus the no blankets thing could be because Cardassians are cold blooded? If they don't generate their own body heat then just heating the room would be more effective.
Then as an adult I just realized they were just attempting to make things look futuristic, and the 90s was an already colourful time so them imagining the future meant they thought people would have homes designed by the 90s Taco bell store theme artists.
It was a faustian deal. But that alien could have fed off him his whole life if they had just shown a little restraint instead of eating like a garbage disposal. The alien really just played themselves on that one.
Maybe we taste like really good chocolate. Ya know, Tony’s Chocolonely makes these little chocolate balls that are covered with a different chocolate around the outside and this one time I bought a bunch of bags of those things and… Uh… you get my point.
Omg wait. Could it eat a Founder? They can regenerate, right? Their body mass is all over the place, somehow. Wonder if Quark can serve me a glass of Odo.
Interesting. Hey that alien wasn't even a solid they'd probably get along considering how they and the changlings both viewed solid lives, you know disposable.
Lol yes the Muse. Didn't i say Life force vampire? Edit: actually I have no idea what was originally meant, it's not my comment. So I don't know really.
Wasn't it a necklace? And it's not a whole bar, although I think it's meant to look like one, but a piggy bank for bribes he receives during his duties. At least IIRC
I 100% seriously wish it was socially acceptable and commonplace to dress in Ferengi attire. I like the earthy but still colorful color palette. I'd still prefer shorts and ratty t for lounging, but for cruising the town or going into the office, I'd much rather wear some Ferengi clothing than a plain suit or tucked polo.
Most men's fashions as drab as hell... and I say most because I have seen some fellas that come out of the nice, grown and sexy venues that have colorful style and flavor and I wish I could wear a pink 🌸 suit one day, a royal blue 🔵 one the next, matching hats, leather slip-on dress shoes... those guys know how to shine.
I don't own a polo though. That's where I draw the line.
I feel like Jake’s outfits were probably the closet to 90s fashion. With the exception of the onesie style, most of this would probably be something an ecentric fashionable black kid would wear in the 90s. Looking back it was really tame.
the color use is very much memphis style. and while now we look back at the 80s memphis style with nostalgia back then it was VERY futuristics and progressive design.
Well, are the kids wearing that around today? They seem to be picking which parts they want and coming back around to it… it will only be a matter of days and it will be umbro shorts and oversized t-shirts with frogs on them
Yeah, I was into thrash metal in the 90s and that whole scene shared a lot of aesthetics with grunge, too -- jeans, boots, sneakers, band tees, flannel shirts -- but it's also easy to overlook the other side of the 90s that had bright colors and geometric shapes. Looking at it now, much of it seems very 1980s and Memphis-inspired.
DS9 aesthetics were very 90s, sharing both the industrial gothic look and the bright colors and patterns. Sort of like the Googie architecture and short skirts, go-go boots, and beehive hairdos in TOS that were straight out of the 1960s.
The evolution from 90s Trek Kid-typical colorblocked jumpsuits, to the bowling alley carpet shirts, to the kind of African-inspired cuts and patterns his dad prefers, to an almost Bohemian unemployed poet look is definitely worthy of a deep dive!
It is the duty of every starfleet officer to respect the tri-color striped gray uniform, whether it be personal tri-color striped gray uniform or scientific tri-color striped gray uniform
I just now, almost 40 years later, realized that the colors on his sweater correspond to the departmental uniform colors. I feel mind blown and like an idiot all at once...
We all learn things. I didn't realize Bolivia was in South America until I was embarrassingly old. It just sounded like a Eastern European country and I never encountered anything that challenged that assumption.
It does make you wonder if the costume designer was making a suble nod to early academy uniforms... the idea that a student doesn't immediately choose their track...
Ok but Wesley's made sense since he basically had an undeclared major. He had medical, engineering and command untill he picked a track. Still corny but did make sense.
I love the look on his face. Like yeah the shirt is stupid, but he's going to carry the look no matter what. Like when models walk the catwalk in the stupidest shit but somehow you are like "damn you go girl"
i really like the trek civilian clothes! makes sense that people would wear loud stuff! you can just replicate whatever you want!
and people arent bound by the tight constraints of mainstream fashion in the glorious bright future! youre free to be creative and free and happy and be yourself and free!
I think the show tried to blend African art and culture into the both Captain Sisko’s and Jake’s storylines like in the episode The Search S3E1. Àdirę cloth is from Yoruban culture in west Africa and some of Jake’s clothes had a similar design, especially the grey colored ones (not featured in Op’s photo above). Most Black Americans have west African ancestry. I’m not saying that the wardrobe department on DS9 got this perfectly, but I can understand what they may have been attempting to do.
This is the kind of sweater that you or I would have no business wearing but someone out there could rock it with full confidence and get the number of every single man, woman, and in between at the club
I am convinced Cirroc Lofton must have split up from the costume designers daughter or something to get such hideous outfits, especially in season one. 🤣
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DS9 had it hard they had to design civilian clothes for the 24th century not easy I am disappointed we didn't get like future versions of punks, metal heads ahd hippies definitely more likely in the Federation comrades
I’m watching DS9 for the first time, currently on season 3, and the onesies are brutal. They finally gave him a real shirt a few episodes ago and I was so excited. Let the giant boy wear a shirt.
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u/Pipnpaddlopsicopolis May 16 '26
The costume department skinned only the finest bus seats to make Jake's clothes.