Star Trek: Ranking Every Starfleet Uniform Worst To Best

After the bland and apparently uncomfortable Star Trek: The Motion Picture costumes came and went, Nicholas Meyer once again called on costume designer Robert Fletcher to rethink Starfleet's uniforms for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Meyer instructed Fletcher to dispatch with the pajama-like TMP jumpsuits in favor of Hornblower-esque Naval uniforms, reminiscent of the costumes from the 1937 film The Prisoner of Zenda. What resulted were striking red jackets with black pants and division-color undershirts, with numerous rank insignia and other militaristic flourishes not often associated with Star Trek's couture.

Dubbed "monster maroons" by fans, these uniforms would be worn by Kirk, Spock, and the crew of the USS Enterprise and Enterprise-A throughout the subsequent TOS films and Star Trek Generations, and would appear in Star Trek: The Next Generation whenever various uniforms from the past were called for.

Fletcher's Wrath of Khan-style uniforms were a mainstay of Star Trek's presence in 1980s cinema but were yet another departure from the recognizable Trek costume style and an evolutionary dead-end despite their staying power within the franchise.