Star Trek: Ranking Every Starfleet Uniform Worst To Best

16. Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Robert Fletcher was charged with completely redesigning the classic Starfleet uniforms for the franchise's first warp onto the big screen in 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture. At the request of director Robert Wise, these uniforms were aggressively monochromatic, eschewing the distinctive gold, blue, and red TOS uniforms for earth tone jumpsuits that left little to the imagination.

Fletcher carefully crafted a new division color and ranking system, even producing an extensive guide for the costumers to follow on set. With the film's inflated budget, Fletcher was able to design numerous variant costumes that included formal two-piece uniforms, casual robe-like wraparound uniforms, and the aforementioned formfitting duty jumpsuits. These uniforms were also distinguished by futuristic belt buckles that were, according to Gene Roddenberry's movie novelization, medical scanners linked to the Enterprise sickbay – a reasonable technological development for a spacefaring civilization unconcerned with protecting their personal data.

Still, TMP's uniforms were notoriously bland, falling into the background of the similarly earth tone sets rather than popping on screen like their 1960s predecessors. Star Trek: The Motion Picture's numerous costumes are undeniably futuristic, but Star Trek has a distinctive vision of the future and these threads just don't fit.