Star Trek: Every Starfleet Uniform Ranked From WORST To BEST

One cannot list the uniforms in total without acknowledging the imaginations of some officers. Whether it's Admiral Picard chatting to his Dad, Ensign Boimler/Captain Buford commanding the Wayfarer, or a lonely child creating a holographic Admiral Picard (jinx!) - these variations on a theme deserve a mention.

Some uniforms did make the jump from what if into the here and now, while some exist solely in the minds and holographic buffers of the few. 

They are all variations on a dream, though when one considers alternate universes, they may be variations on a nightmare.

There are darker universes than the one we currently live in, evidenced by the more militaristic takes on the uniforms therein. While Mirror, Mirror may have been the first time audiences visited the Mirror Universe in 1967, chronologically, humans and Terrans had been interacting for years.

Assuming time moves the same way in the mirror universe, their version of the 2150s uniform was very similar to their Starfleet counterparts, while one hundred years later, the uniforms were drastically different, featuring armour and more weapons. As the Terran Empire was beginning to wane in the decade that followed, the uniform was redesigned, more closely resembling the Starfleet contemporary.

By the 2380s, the Terran Empire was struggling to make a comeback. Their uniforms resembled active wear, presumably to allow their soldiers to fight with more freedom.

In the darker timeline created by an aging Q, General Picard was seen in a uniform that resembled a mix between the Starfleet monster maroon and the Terran uniform of the 2250s, still retaining a version of the Delta on the left breast.

Star Trek: Discovery offered audiences a wide variety of Starfleet uniforms, including those seen in flashbacks and visions. Su'kal depicted at least two different types of uniforms, while Forget Me Not brought back the command division uniform from the mid-late-2390s, as well as introducing another uniform from an unknown era.

Though Agent Daniels sported a 2150s jumpsuit when he first appeared to Captain Archer in Enterprise, he quickly swapped that out for a futuristic suit, form-fitting, slightly resembling something a Borg Drone would find 'fetching'. 

After dying (and being reincarnated) in this uniform, his style changed. By the time he revealed his identity to Michael Burnham in Life, Itself, he was known for his thick-rimmed spectacles, his severe necktie, and a fine black suit.

It may have been a uniform of one, but Kovich cut an impressive image, legal pads and all.

Seen in flashback in the Star Trek: Picard episode Seventeen Seconds, this variant was in service in at least 2381, around the time of Thaddeus Troi-Riker's birth. It seemed to be a halfway point between the standard grey and black uniforms introduced in First Contact, and the flashback-only uniforms of Picard.

The grey shoulder section extended downwards into the chest, while a division colour stripe separated these shoulders from the chest, save for another grey stripe encircling the upper torso.

Seen only in this flashback scene as Riker and Picard toast Thad's birth, it is unclear how widespread this uniform was, or for how long. 

In The Animated Series episode The Time Trap, a possible early version of a Starfleet uniform was seen being worn by the human who sat on the Elysian Council. 

As the USS Bonaventure, one of the earliest ships equipped with a warp drive, was trapped in the Delta Triangle, this uniform, according to The Star Trek Concordance, was a derivation of a uniform worn on that vessel.

The Delta variant on the left breast suggested a contemporary science division symbol, adding weight to this theory.

Designed for rougher terrain than a starship, the excursion uniforms worn by members of Enterprise's crew were highly adaptable. Though first seen helping Captain Archer and Commander Tucker manage the heat of the Cygniai Expanse, they were also worn by crew members while cave diving.

This uniform was a two-piece outfit consisting of a long-sleeve light brown top. It had black piping, as well as a zipper at the front of the neck. The starship emblem was on the left shoulder, while the wearer's rank insignia was on the right collar.

The pants were similar to contemporary cargo trousers, presumably a little easier to move in than the regular Starfleet jumpsuit.

The desert robes that appeared in Shadows And Symbols were roughly based on the excursion outfits worn by the crew of Voyager, seen in the episode Blood Fever. Though these robes were described as being able to help block out the sun, the Siskos and Dax still had a very warm day in the desert.

The boots, likewise similar to the boots used on Voyager, were designed by Reebok. Like many other variations of survival gear, they bore the division colours of each wearer, this time across the chest of the shirt and robe.

This combat gear was first shown on-screen in ...Nor The Battle To The Strong, the fifth season episode of Deep Space Nine depicting the Battle of Ajilon Prime. A Starfleet soldier, played by Danny Goldring, was discovered by Jake Sisko in his final moments.

The uniform was clearly designed to give the wearer additional protection from hand-to-hand combat, though judging by the burns and melted material on the bodice, it is unclear how effective it was against phaser and disruptor fire.

A later variant was seen in use during The Siege Of AR-558, where it similarly failed to protect Vargas.

Michael Kaplan designed a more colourful uniform for Section 31 to wear than their Prime reality counterparts got to enjoy. While Sloane was clad in black leather, Admiral Marcus boasted a grey and light blue ensemble - perhaps reflecting the hopeful nature of the Kelvin timeline's sunny optimism?

Jokes aside - this version of Section 31 boasted more bravado than their counterparts, which may, in part, have led to their uniforms more closely aligning with Starfleet standards. Though the jackets were made from two-tone material, unlike many other uniforms in the fleet, they did not boast the Starfleet Delta.

For the Starfleet uniforms in the late-32nd Century, costume designer Gersha Phillips decided that they would be part-3D printed to give them a more 'techy' look, as per her interview on The Ready Room with Wil Wheaton.

Some parts of these uniforms were specifically moulded to the wearer. The tricombadge, introduced early in Star Trek: Discovery's third season, sat on the left breast, while rank insignia were moved to the front of the collar.

Captains wore shoulder epaulets that ran from front to back, rather than shoulder to collar. A division colour stripe also ran from the shoulder to the hem on the right side of the jacket. 

There was a separate, distinct Starfleet security uniform. It didn't bear a division colour option, instead featuring a quilted section surrounding the shoulders.

The 24th Century utility uniform was introduced early in The Next Generation's first season and featured variants in each of the division colours. Lore was outfitted with an Operations gold uniform, while Ralph Offenhouse donned a Science blue.

By the fourth season, the blue and red variants were phased out in favour of the gold, meaning it became the most used version of this uniform.

Variations on this suit would appear throughout The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Lower Decks, and Picard, with a further variant seen in Star Trek: Nemesis, also seen on a son of Soong. 

While on the ground at Starfleet Headquarters, or Starfleet Academy, officers in the alternate 2250s created by the Narada Incursion sported a dark grey or black service uniform.

These were simple outfits designed for function over fashion, with designer Michael Kaplan using the Star Trek Encyclopedia for inspiration. 

These, and variations of, were worn by both standard officers and flag officers, with minor alterations and highlights between stations.

Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy, Commander-in-Chief of Starfleet, needed to make an entrance and, thanks to Christine Clark's design, she certainly did that. Her uniform, ditching the Delta pattern present on the standard duty uniform, is a mix of grey, charcoal, and no f**king nonsense.

Her uniform consists of this two-tone top worn over a red undershirt. The high collar is abandoned while the communicator and rank insignia - five pips, in her case - remain present on the chest.

Her uniform seems designed to deflect from any superfluous details, which it achieves perfectly.

Like those uniforms in use in the mid-2380s, the Starfleet uniforms of the late-2390s were designed by Christine Clark. Structurally, they were similar to those uniforms seen toward the end of the 2360s and beginning of the 2370s.

They were two-toned, with the division colour running across the shoulders and high collars. The patterns on this section of the uniform consisted of small Deltas, similar to those seen on the Kelvin-universe counterparts. While the wearer still displayed their combadge on the left breast, the rank insignia were moved from the right collar to the right breast.

Clark, having studied the progression of Starfleet uniforms, wanted something that was deliberately simple, possibly suggesting a Starfleet that had grown a little stale.

The uniforms worn by the officers on Starbase Yorktown were closer in design to the functional jumpsuits featured in Star Trek: Enterprise. However, they sported brighter colours in larger swathes. Standard officers wore Deltas similar to those found on starships on their left breast, as well as a location-specific patch on their left shoulder.

Flag Officers, like Commodore Paris, wore a variation of this uniform. Rather than brighter division colours, they wore black along their shoulders. Their chest Deltas were solid gold, similar to those at Starfleet Academy. They also bore rank insignia on their sleeve cuffs and their collars.

Though to date these uniforms have only been seen on Starbase Yorktown, they continue the tradition of individual starbases having their own unique designs.

The costumes for Star Trek: Section 31 were designed by Gersha Phillips, returning from her tenure on Star Trek: Discovery. Like the former show, Phillips took inspiration from such design houses as Balenciaga, though seemingly eschewed the established uniform designs of the period in which the film is set.

Lieutenant Rachel Garrett, acting as a representative of Starfleet in the film, wears a navy undershirt, over which she wears a black vest adorned with pockets. The pants are a dark grey colour, presumably to allow the operative to move in the shadows without being seen when combined with the rest of the outfit.

A side holster on the right contains an updated version of the phaser first introduced in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Star Trek III: The Search For Spock introduced a unique style of security officer uniform, seen only on Spacedock. This padded uniform displayed the Delta on the left breast as usual, as well as service and rank insignia on the left sleeve.

The strap containing the insignia was closer to the bicep as the cuff closed like the sleeves on a dress shirt, with buttons extending back through the length. This uniform also came with a hat, as well as a buckle at the front that evoked memories of the perscan devices in The Motion Picture.

This security uniform was vastly different from those aboard starships, which featured body armour and helmets as early as the mid-2270s, though later lost those helmets by the mid-2290s.

The field gear, worn by the rescue team on Nimbus III, was designed by Nino Rodis-Jamero, with additional supervision and design by Dodie Shepard and Karen Hullet. These outfits were predominantly beige, though Captain Kirk wore a darker charcoal coloured ensemble.

Like the Monster Maroons, they had a strap on the left sleeve bearing rank and insignia, as well as a black belt with a Delta on the buckle. Unlike their counterparts, they lacked the shoulder strap and the Delta on the left breast.

The pullover was worn over division-specific undershirts.

Starfleet Academy updated its uniforms by the 2380s, moving away from the jumpsuits that resembled those seen on starbases. By 2384, cadets wore a one-piece uniform that incorporated maroon and cream tones.

These uniforms were in service until at least 2385, as evidenced by those wearing them on First Contact Day of that year. Acting and provisional officers wore similar uniforms to those worn by Wesley Crusher in the early-2360s, while Warrant Officers like Dal wore a uniform similar to the experimental variant assigned to the USS Protostar.

This uniform was standard issue throughout the academy, although members of the elite team Nova Squadron also wore identifying emblems on their collars.

These excursion uniforms were introduced in Star Trek: Voyager, allowing the wearer a greater amount of mobility and, in the case of the boots, grip, particularly when partaking in activities like rock climbing. For them to be available to Voyager's crew, they must have been in service as early as 2371.

They were similar in design to the training uniforms, also seen aboard Voyager, though the excursion variants had longer sleeves. Both bore division stripes across the chest, with rank insignia on the collar of the excursion uniform.

The training uniforms, on the other hand, had no high collars, presumably as rank indicators weren't a priority for these designs.

The away jacket, worn by officers and technicians in the early-to-mid 2250s, consisted of a dark grey material. It was worn over a utility harness that allowed the person to holster their laser pistols and communicators.

Officers wore jackets with a white stripe on the sleeve, while technicians wore blue, and yeomans didn't wear a stripe. This jacket, first seen in The Cage, inspired the later variants seen in Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, with the latter offering a more streamlined, lighter version.

The Strange New Worlds version had a zipper running up the front of the jacket and bore the crest of the individual ship on the left shoulder. A heavier version was worn by Captain Pike in Through The Valley Of Shadows, bearing rank-indicating epaulets on the shoulders.

Division 14 was the somewhat frightening in appearance, though kind-hearted wing of Starfleet. Their task was to study and care for other officers who had experienced mishaps and accidents in the course of duty. When Ensign Boimler found himself out of phase thanks to a transporter accident, he was ushered onto the USS Osler.

There, Division 14 was seen in grey uniforms with a charcoal capelet over the shoulders. They bore no rank insignia, but they did wear a Delta on the left breast. Their uniforms were adaptable, allowing for species like Edosians to have their third arm clothed as well.

Though their name evoked memories of another numbered Starfleet division, these officers were definitely sterner in image than action.

This futuristic uniform was designed for The Motion Picture by Robert Fletcher, as previous designer William Ware Theiss was unavailable to work on the film. Fletcher began the process by imagining a series of uniforms that were 'less sexist' than their '60s counterparts, according to The Making Of Star Trek The Motion Picture by Susan Sackett and Gene Roddenberry.

Fletcher created a design that connected the shoes to the overall suit, thus creating a seamless lower half. The one-piece variant was challenging to put on and remove, with George Takei recalling that even a trip to the bathroom needed help.

While most of the crew wore the single jumpsuit, several two-piece versions were created for the primary cast. Colours like powder blue, beige, brown, and white denoted the various departments. There were further variations, with some of them having open collars, while others closed the collar. Medical staff were offered more traditional lab coats, while Starbase operatives wore a more relaxed, loose-fitting uniform.

All of these uniforms were outfitted with a 'perscan' device, patented by Fletcher, that would continuously update the main computer as to the wearer's vitals. These uniforms were not popular with the cast. 

The utility jumpsuits that first appeared in The Wrath Of Khan for enlisted crewmembers were reuses of those original jumpsuits from The Motion Picture. When Producer Bob Sallin joined the crew for the sequel, he was one of the supporters in changing the uniforms between films.

Rather than start entirely from scratch, these jumpsuits were retained and tested with various dyes in an attempt to see which of them would look best on-screen, and in which colour. Maroon showed up well, helping to direct the colour palette of the overall film.

While the principal cast would receive an entirely new wardrobe, these jumpsuits were used extensively between The Wrath Of Khan and The Undiscovered Country. The latter film introduced several service variants, including the one with raised shoulders seen on the uniforms worn by the galley staff on the Enterprise-A.

The acting-Ensign uniform changed between 2364 and 2365. When Wesley Crusher is first shown wearing one, he dons a light-blue tunic with a shoulder band mixing all three division colours into a band that encircles him. 

For the second season, the new uniform ditches the division colours and opts for an almost solid grey, with only the shoulder section slightly darker. Crusher's combadge is seemingly unique in that the oval surround on the Delta is silver, rather than the standard gold.

This uniform remained in service for nearly two decades, with a small variation making appearances in Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Despite earlier Starfleet judges wearing similar uniforms to standard dress uniforms, those in session at Starfleet Headquarters in 2384 wore a formal black uniform, complete with a gold trim that ran from the neck and down the torso, with fingerless gloves. 

Of those seen, several wore rank insignia on the right chest, indicating that they were at least Admiral level and above. One justice wore no rank insignia, but was the only one wearing golden markings on the shoulders, designed like epaulets.

Several of these officers presided over the decision to accept Dal, Rok-tahk, Jankum, Zero, Murf, and Gwyn into Starfleet Academy. 

While previous iterations of the dress uniforms for Starfleet officers remained mostly consistent between the ranks, with Flag Officers receiving variations, by the late-32nd Century, higher-ranking officers also had an updated variant.

Most officers wore a navy, long-sleeved jacket, with gold piping running from left to right across the torso. The collar was high, bearing rank insignia, while the tricombadge sat on the left breast.

For captains, a special red variant of this dress uniform was commissioned with a collar that split in the middle to reveal a white undershirt. The Flag officer variant was closer in overall design to the standard officer dress, with added ornamentation running along the right side of the jacket. This version was double-breasted and a light grey colour.

The first uniform ever seen on-screen in Star Trek was a soft fabric style, split between three division colours. Command wore gold, while the Science division wore blue. The Operations division wore a copper-brown colour, as seen on Yeoman Colt.

On the mission to Talos IV in 2254, the Enterprise crew were seen wearing these variants. This style was vastly different from that seen aboard ships like the Shenzhou and, later, the Discovery. They were designed by William Ware Theiss, who designed many of the uniforms featured on this list.

This 'gold' Command uniform, as well as the redesign that immediately followed, was, in fact, lime-green in fabrication, though on-set lighting and recording gave this golden hue. The earliest versions were made from a satin velour material, which was phased out as The Original Series progressed.

A variant of the uniform was seen in Where No Man Has Gone Before and The Corbomite Manoeuvre, adding a zipper to the shoulder and neck, which means that Starfleet returned to this style after several updates and variations. This, according to The Making Of Star Trek, was to help Leonard Nimoy remove the tunic without affecting his Vulcan make-up. In addition to this, there was also a high-collared variant worn by Colt and Doctor Dehner.

Reflecting the organisation's fascist overtones, costume designer Robert Blackman created a Gestapo-inspired look for Section 31 in Inquisition.

Quoted in The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, he said:

...we immediately go that way to make them look like storm troopers, because that's imagery that works best, not only for the viewers but for the producers.

This black leather jacket was double-breasted with no ornamentation, worn over similarly dark trousers and boots. The earlier versions in Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Trek: Discovery mirrored this look, though the latter added a two-tone black-and-chrome Delta on the left breast, an early version of the hands-free combadge.

When boarding the USS Titan-A, Captain Riker wears a variant on the standard Starfleet jacket. This is in keeping with higher-ranked officers receiving their own variants, particularly for less formal occasions. His jacket was red across the shoulders, with that colour dipping down onto the arms. 

Though it bore no rank insignia, it retained the combadge on the left breast. A grey body filled the rest of the design. Though it was seen closed in Star Trek: Picard's third season, it was similar in theme to both the relaxed Captain's jacket in The Next Generation and the bomber jacket from the mid-2280s.

Designed by Michael Kaplan for Star Trek, these uniforms were shown in use aboard the USS Kelvin. Four division colours were depicted: blue, greenish-gold, and grey, while the medical staff wore white. Kaplan designed these uniforms to be more form-fitting than the Enterprise-era jumpsuits (the mid-2150s uniform had not yet been designed behind the scenes.)

Kaplan added a belt to make the uniform more contemporary, though also added the Starfleet Delta (a hollow version) to the chest, as well as rank insignia on the sleeves. Black piping created a separation on the chest, similar to those uniforms that would arrive over one hundred years later, chronologically.

In Beta Canon, the uniforms of the time were closer in appearance to those that would follow in both this film and its follow-up, particularly regarding the skant. Section 31 operatives wore a uniform that was similar in structure, though abandoned any division colours, opting for a standard grey. This was depicted in the Short Trek episode The Girl Who Made The Stars.

At the time of writing, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy remains in pre-production, so it remains to be seen what the standard uniform will be. In 3190, Captain Michael Burnham gave a commencement speech to the incoming class, who stood before her in, presumably, their new dress uniforms.

These uniforms featured grey trousers and a two-tone, long jacket. This jacket was blue along the sides and shoulders, extending into a high-collar, which itself was pinned with a cadet rank insignia. This variant has only appeared in Kobayashi Maru to date, with a different red field version appearing in All Is Possible. 

Designed by veteran Star Trek costumier Robert Blackman, the jumpsuits that appeared in Star Trek: Enterprise were a more utilitarian take on Starfleet. This uniform, depicted as one of the earliest variations on the theme, resembled workwear of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, with pockets for all occasions.

This was a departure from the streamlined uniforms that would chronologically follow, suggesting a Starfleet that was more about getting the job done, rather than exploring the existential merits of said job.

The division colours matched those that would follow in Pike's and Kirk's time, though the colouring scheme was interrupted for several years in the mid-2200s. The rank insignia were worn on the left breast, similar to the deltas that would follow. 

Though hardy and practical, these uniforms lacked a certain sense of style that Starfleet would come to be known for, suggesting an era that had far more immediate concerns than the look of the officers within. The dress variants of these jumpsuits, as well as those worn by flag officers, were largely the same as those worn on standard duty. Captains added a white undershirt to denote special occasions.

The early 2360s to the early 2370s were a booming period for Starfleet stylists. While new Admiral's uniforms were being churned out weekly, Starfleet dress uniforms saw an almost equal amount of turnover.

One early dress uniform was a longer version of the standard uniform top, though double-breasted. This was edged with a wide, golden accent running from the collar, along the collarbone and then down to the hem. This was then replaced by a similar design, though the wide golden border was abandoned.

This new variant was revised again, shortening the dress top, before a final version was unveiled. This version was shorter still, displayed the rank insignia on the right breast, and retained a thin, golden border along the collar and collarbone. This version remained in use until at least 2374, as both Bashir and O'Brien are seen wearing theirs at the wedding of Jadzia Dax and Worf. This would also account for its use in the Delta Quadrant, aboard the USS Voyager.

Continuing the trend of several dress uniforms being available for choice at the same time, An Embarrassment Of Dooplers sees Boimler struggling to pick which one to wear. His first choice is the standard Starfleet skant - a longer version of the regular service tunic, including the double-breast, and bordered with white.

Mariner opted against this, instead recommending the white version of the standard duty uniform. It included a gold border along the shoulders and trim, and also had division colour stripes on the sleeve cuffs. 

This uniform also seems specific to the California-class, as, while being turned away from an officer's party, Captain Freeman sees several other Starfleet officers inside, all of whom are wearing the dress uniform first seen in Star Trek: Insurrection.

In the illusion created by the Talosians in The Cage, Captain Pike watches an Orion Slave Girl dance before him and two other Starfleet officers. One of these officers is wearing the first on-screen depiction of a Starfleet Dress Uniform.

This variation was an overcoat, worn on top of the standard duty uniform. It was brownish-green, bore the Starfleet Delta on the left breast, and was adorned with epaulets on the shoulders.

The script for The Cage indicated that this uniform was created to highlight that the officer in question was not from the Enterprise. Although the differing Deltas had yet to make an appearance, this is an early indicator that various uniforms were in service across Starfleet - a theme that would take on a life of its own as years went on.

Over Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek Beyond, there are several variations of Starfleet survival and away mission gear. Star Trek gave us the orbital skydiving suit, as well as Kirk's survival suit from Delta Vega. 

Star Trek Into Darkness gave us the wetsuit, the flight suit, and the flight suit with added jets. Star Trek Beyond then gave us the survival jacket, crafted in hues of blue and yellow. Though the amount of field uniforms seems a tad excessive for such a short period, it continues the trend of having several variations of uniform in service at once in Starfleet.

Some, like the skydiving suit, seem geared toward a single, specific mission, whereas the away jacket from Star Trek Beyond is a more general type of field uniform. Whatever the reason, this version of Starfleet clearly has a high uniform budget for its operatives.

Starfleet Academy again updated its uniforms for the latter end of the 24th Century, although it retains the same overall colour pattern introduced in Homefront.

The grey is a little darker but still makes up the bulk of the uniform, while division colours run across the shoulders. The mid-2360s suggested a period where all cadets wore red, though Deep Space Nine depicted several cadets in division-specific colours. 

Rather than having a solid line across the upper chest, the division colours are angled, rising from right to left, presumably to give the combadge greater prominence. These uniforms, unlike their standard duty counterparts, do feature a high collar, although, as cadets, there is no rank insignia to position there.

When designing the uniforms for Star Trek, Michael Kaplan was inspired by the Star Trek Encyclopedia, given to him by J.J. Abrams. He wanted to trace the evolution of uniforms through the years, focusing on common themes between them all.

He retained the bright colours - Gold, Blue, and Red - seen in so much of Trek, while adding Delta-themed patterns to each of them. Variations on these uniforms included standard long-sleeved tops, worn over a black undershirt. Thigh-length dresses with a lower-cut neck, also worn over a black undershirt, were worn by female members of the crew.

Medical staff had optional tunics in a light blue colour, with both long and short sleeve variants. The long-sleeved uniforms also bore the rank insignia of the wearer on the sleeve cuff, much like their Prime Universe counterparts.

In the mid/late-2260s, a new dress uniform entered service. The female versions were similar to the standard skirt/dress worn aboard ship, though with added detailing and piping. The male variants were adorned with a gold collar, from which a gold highlight ran down the front.

Though these uniforms appeared several times in The Original Series, Scotty's dress uniform from The Savage Curtain is a particular highlight. According to The World Of Star Trek by David Gerrold, James Doohan suggested that he wear a kilt when Abraham Lincoln beamed aboard. Doohan recalled the producers loving the idea, jumping on it and ensuring authenticity:

They sent to Scotland for the Scott tartan, which is one of the really old tartans.

These dress uniforms appeared in both live-action and animation, making another appearance in The Counter-Clock Incident.

Captains in Starfleet were afforded some luxuries of choice in comfortable uniforms. Both Christopher Pike and James T. Kirk wore variations of a green tunic, wrapping around their waists, fastened with a Delta on their left side.

Kirk's first version had gold adornments on the collar, while his later version switched to gold piping. Pike's variant was similar, with gold piping, though he adorned his with a standard Starfleet Delta on the left breast. This variant, along with Kirk's later variant, had rank insignia on the sleeve cuffs. This version made an appearance in the Mirror Universe, brought over aboard the USS Defiant, and then worn by Captain Jonathan Archer.

An early version of this wraparound tunic was worn by Charlie Evans in the episode Charlie X, designed as an early option for Kirk, before the green version was the overall winner.

This uniform, seen only on the training ship USS Prodigy, first appeared in 2385. It seems to be a combination of the contemporary Starfleet Academy uniform, combined with the Starfleet duty uniform, designed by Christine Clark. 

This uniform retains the combadge that was, until that point, unique to the USS Protostar, the progenitor of the USS Prodigy's ship class.

The red and blue division colours are similar to the standard duty uniforms, though the Operations/Security division colour seems a little more yellow than its golden counterparts. Though not strictly Starfleet-issue, Captain Gwyn and First Officer Dal both wore fingerless gloves as part of their uniform.

The new two-piece jumpsuit, designed by Robert Blackman, was created to set Deep Space Nine apart from The Next Generation, as both shows ran concurrently for almost two years. The looser fit, rolled-up sleeves, and light undershirt were meant to show that life aboard a starbase moved at a different pace to that aboard a starship.

This new uniform was seen alongside the standard 2360s uniform in Star Trek: Generations, which was a last-minute decision by the filmmakers, having abandoned a previous uniform design. This led to several of the actors borrowing uniforms tailored to Deep Space Nine, and even Voyager cast members.

These jumpsuits, similar to the Starfleet Academy uniforms, were seen aboard DS9, the Defiant, the Enterprise-D, Voyager, and the Equinox. They featured a lighter undershirt, similar to the one seen on Ro Laren several years prior, thus leading to the infamous 'tank-top Janeway' scenes in Macrocosm.

B'Elanna Torres wore an open Engineer jacket over hers while Roxanne Dawson was pregnant, though several other variations appeared through Voyager's run - including a specific maternity version, also worn by Torres and Ensign Samantha Wildman.

This uniform had a relatively short lifespan, retiring from general use by 2373.

The uniforms for the crew of the USS Franklin, seen in Star Trek Beyond, were created by Sanja Milkovic Hays, the costume designer for this film and who had previously worked on Star Trek: Insurrection. 

These uniforms retained the utilitarian look of the Enterprise-era jumpsuits, though they displayed the move to adding more colour. Though designed for the Franklin crew, some were snapped up by the surviving crew of the USS Enterprise, with Spock donning a red-division uniform, eschewing his regular blue.

These uniforms introduced the Starfleet delta to the left breast, retaining the Starfleet patch on the left shoulder. Though only seen briefly in Star Trek Beyond, they suggested Starfleet's new interest in multi-coloured starship crews.

William Ware Theiss returned to Star Trek to design the uniforms that were introduced in Encounter At Farpoint. These one-piece uniforms were a departure from the double-breasted Monster Maroons of the films, dropping the straps and undershirts, moving the rank insignia to the right collar, and redesigning the Delta - now a communicator - on the left breast.

These uniforms were designed to be wrinkle-free (i.e. too small for the wearer), which quickly made them uncomfortable to wear. They were dropped from use by the main cast of The Next Generation by the beginning of the third season.

Chronologically, they were in use by 2353 and can be seen in Picard's flashback aboard the USS Stargazer, as well as his vision of seeing Jack Crusher's body. As Jack was seen in a Monster Maroon in a holographic recording to his son made in 2349, the switch must have happened relatively quickly after this.

The uniform was also used in the Kelvin timeline as late as 2379, as seen in the holographic recording of Lieutenant Yor, though that variant had (depending on the source) a communicator more commonly used in the 2360s in the Prime Universe.

Outside of archival footage, the uniform was phased out by The Next Generation's fourth season.

3190 saw a shift in Starfleet's relationship with colours. The uniform in use in 3189 was, in the words of a mind like Garak, drab. By the following year, the asymmetrical jackets were once again full of colour, bringing back the red/blue/yellow/white of the various divisions.

Though the style retained the collar insignia, with bars replacing pips, the jacket inverted the design of its predecessor. Now, instead of a division colour running down the right-hand side, a black stripe broke up the rest of the jacket. A zipper, finally allowed to be on show, ran down the middle, while a small device sat on the left sleeve cuff - ready to replicate a phaser on command.

In the early 2360s, male and female members of the crew were both seen wearing the 'skant', a variation on the standard one-piece uniform that removed the trousers, but extended fabric down below the waist. 

Though apocraphally described as the 'space cheerleader' outfit by some, the uniform could be worn by any member of the crew, in alignment with Gene Roddenberry's push to show equality in the future. Crewmembers could wear knee-high leather boots or shorter ankle-high boots.

Dr Pulaski wore a variation on the skant, adding a pair of black trousers to the standard blue medical skirt. Two variants, one with an abdomen strap and one without, appeared in The Next Generation's second season.

When Voyager entered the Antaran Transstellar Rally in 2377, or more accurately, the Delta Flyer did, one couldn't simply allow standard uniforms to spoil a good finisher's photo, now could they? Paris, Kim, and Torres all donned a new design of flight suit - initially unique to Drive.

The jumpsuit featured a high-necked white shoulder and collar, red piping separating the black body and sleeve from the grey chest area. The ensemble was sealed with a jigsaw-like fastening down the front.

The design continues the fine Star Trek tradition of barring the wearer from having anything more than a salad for lunch, though this didn't preclude it from appearing again in Star Trek: Lower Decks, mindscape appearance or not.

The Starfleet Academy cadet uniform in the 2360s and early 2370s was similar to those starbase and space station jumpsuits that were introduced in the latter half of the 2360s, though these uniforms featured a high collar, generally in red, with black piping. 

The uniforms, like the jumpsuits from Enterprise almost two hundred years prior, also featured large pockets along the legs. Though predominantly red, one gold variation was seen in the episode Allegiance. While that particular wearer was exposed as a spy, the Star Trek Encyclopedia, 4th ed., vol. 1 suggested that she was based on a real cadet.

By the time Cadet Nog was taking classes at the Academy in 2373, the uniform retained the same overall shape, though the black body was replaced with a lighter shade of grey. 

Fleet (D)Admiral Charles Vance displayed the first flag officer uniform seen in the 32nd Century. It, like its standard duty counterparts, was a light grey colour. Unlike the standard duty uniforms, it did not have the division colour band running down the right side.

Instead, the flag officer uniform had division trim along the collar and edges of the fabric (similar to the capelet worn by Division 14). Epaulets denoted rank, while the pip-pins were split in two, positioned at the front of the collar. 

These uniforms were in service for at least a decade before the Discovery arrived at Starfleet HQ, as Senna Tal, one of the Tal symbiont's former hosts, was seen wearing one. 

By 2401, Starfleet had issued a new field jacket, similar to the away or excursion jackets seen in previous years. This was a more minimal design, featuring division colours along the shoulders. Like the dress uniforms of the period, rank insignia could be added, but were worn vertically as opposed to horizontally. 

In a design choice that was similar to Christine Clark's Starfleet uniforms of the mid-2380s, the division colours weren't solid across the shoulder, as a black triangular segment broke them up from the upper chest to the collarbone. 

They were fastened via a zipper that ran straight down the middle of the jacket, with the combadge position on the left breast. Captain Liam Shaw was seen wearing a dark undershirt with a red division stripe across the shoulder, which may have been paired with this jacket. At least one other crewmember aboard the Titan-A also wore one. 

The uniform worn by Starfleet Admiralty in Star Trek Into Darkness was similar to that seen in the previous film, though it added a white front to the tunic. It displayed the rank on the shoulder epaulets and the sleeves, while adding an Admiral-specific Delta on the left breast. It was a variation on the dress uniform first worn by Admiral Pike in Star Trek.

With that exception, previous flag officer uniforms were similar to the standard service uniform worn by Starfleet. The added colour gave the uniform a sense of formality, best depicted in the moments before Khan attacked Starfleet Headquarters.

Though it suggests a maturity and professional nature by the wearer, Admiral Marcus would go on to show us that the clothes need not always make the man.

Another design by Robert Fletcher for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the 'field jacket' worn by the away team was designed to be more functional for the wearer. This was inspired by the belts seen in The Original Series, which, for Fletcher at least, were impractical.

He designed the jackets to allow the wearer to leave their hands free for work:

- a much more efficient practice than carrying around their tools in their hands like in the old series.

Though these jackets were only seen in one film, they bore a resemblance to the away jackets seen in the mid-2250s, worn by Pike, Spock, and the away mission to Talos IV.

The Starfleet Academy uniform, designed by Michael Kaplan, which featured in Star Trek, was a variation of the standard service uniform. It retained the piping that was present on those uniforms worn by the crew of the USS Kelvin, with added epaulets on the shoulders.

Though this uniform lacked the Delta over the left breast, present on the standard service uniform, it did bear a Delta on the left collar. Though there was at least one other uniform in use at the time, featured in Kirk's Kobayashi Maru test, this seems to be the predominantly available uniform for cadets to wear.

One has to wonder at the daring of taking every single cadet in Starfleet and putting them in a red shirt and trousers, though...

Following on from the standard uniform update first seen in First Contact, an admiral's variant arrived roughly a year later. Though Admiral William Ross was seen wearing the older late-2360s style uniform in A Time To Stand, he quickly adopted the grey-themed uniform.

This, like its predecessor, consisted of a longer jacket, trimmed in gold, with grey, quilted shoulders. It featured rank insignia on the sleeves, as well as a belt that featured either a rectangular buckle or a Federation seal.

These uniforms remained in service for at least a decade before being phased out sometime before 2385.

Though featured prominently in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, the engineering jumpsuit was introduced in the mid-2270s, during the events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Costume designer Robert Fletcher opined in the February 1980 issue of Fantastic Films that:

After all, a mechanic doesn't work in a suit and tie, so why should engineers on a starship?

Fletcher designed these uniforms to suit the work that Scotty and the rest of the team would do in engineering, protecting them from harmful elements, while providing ample storage for the tools of the trade. 

They may have been bulky, but they were designed for function rather than fashion. To be fair to Fletcher, Spock only donned the gloves when he entered that chamber. Perhaps he should have taken the time to wear the whole outfit. 

Scotty wore a utility vest over his white undershirt, seen prominently in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and in the episode Relics. As the head of his department, he wore a white undershirt, though his pants retained the standard engineering/operations division gold stripe.

This effectively served as his toolbelt, though it also sported his Delta in the 2280s and 90s, then his communicator in the 2360s.

This was one of several engineering uniform variations available at the time, with an updated jumpsuit introduced in the mid-2270s, which was adapted into EV suits to be worn with a thruster pack and helmet, or could be adapted for use with gravity boots when one needs to assassinate a High Chancellor. 

The dress uniform, introduced in Star Trek: Insurrection, quickly replaced the versions worn in The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. Designed by Robert Blackman, these were created with the express purpose of 'popping', as Blackman stated in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion:

No matter what, white over black has a formal look to it.

These were seen once in Deep Space Nine, featuring the first and to-date only live-action example of a flag officer variant, which was almost identical to the captain's version. It had an added red band on the sleeve, along with the standard sleeve-mounted rank insignia.

In the early 2260s, Starfleet officers (in the Kelvin timeline) wore formal dress uniforms that eschewed any division colours. Instead, they were a solid grey, came with a matching peaked cap (bearing the Starfleet emblem) and denoted the rank of the wearer on the shoulders.

Kirk and Spock wore their dress uniforms to a meeting with Admiral Pike in the aftermath of their mission to Nibiru, though it was hardly for the commendation Kirk believed them to be set to receive.

They would later wear these uniforms when summoned to Starfleet Headquarters, joining the Admiralty in the briefing about 'John Harrison.' A variation on this type of uniform was seen in the aftermath of 'Harrison's' attack, with a blue sash across the chest.

For Captain Leto, the first non-flag Starfleet officer seen in the 33rd Century, this new uniform came with an additional pip and a lot of added pressure. In Life, Itself, he has just been promoted to the big seat, and asks his mother for some advice.

The entire coda of Star Trek: Discovery's final episode is about endings and new beginnings. This version of the uniform shares the bright colours of those late-32nd Century uniforms, albeit a little more functional in design, and eschewing the asymmetry of so many of the previous uniforms.

The updated Delta sits on the left breast, while the rank pips remain in the middle of the collar, though less conspicuous than its predecessor. Gold ornaments were positioned on the sleeves, marking the end of the Command red division colour. 

By the late-2390s, Starfleet had reverted to a double-breasted uniform design. The division colours remained on the shoulders, though the uniform jacket now lacked a collar. Instead, it was fastened over a black undershirt, onto which the wearer pinned their rank insignia.

This top was accompanied by trousers with a division colour strip running down the outside of the leg. Command wore red, Operations and Security wore gold, and Medical and Sciences wore blue as usual. Aboard the USS Titan-A, at least one cook wore a similar uniform, though his was grey across the shoulders.

Starfleet kept the same style of combadge from the early-2390s until at least 2401, when it was replaced by a golden variant. Several flag officers, including Admirals Whitely and Picard, were seen wearing a variant of this uniform, with added gold piping under the division colours across the shoulders.

In the twenty years between the early 2350s and the early 2370s, Starfleet's Admirals went through many uniform changes and redesigns. Including the version seen only in Barash's fantasy in Future Imperfect, no fewer than six different Admiralty variants were seen on screen.

The alien posing as Admiral Janeway may be forgiven for getting some of the details wrong (like the combadge) but it did still offer a fair reproduction of the admiral's uniform in service in 2353. Admiral Mark Jameson would showcase the next design in Too Short A Season, while Admiral Nakamura wore a new design in The Measure Of A Man. 

Admiral Haftel introduced a design that would be the norm for the next couple of years in The Offspring, not counting 'Admiral Picard's' jaunty ensemble in Future Imperfect. Finally, for The Next Generation at least, Vice (later Fleet) Admiral Necheyev introduced the design that would return in both Deep Space Nine and Voyager, with Admiral Toddman showcasing the only division-specific variant, in Operations gold, in The Die Is Cast.

By 2384, another uniform variant had entered service, though it appeared to be a natural progression of those seen aboard the USS Cerritos. The jacket had a straight edge along the bottom, though like the Cali-class uniforms, it was double-breasted.

The Flag officer version was largely the same as the standard officers, though a gold trim was added, replacing the white trim, or no trim, on the standard uniforms. Though all officers wore the same communicator, first seen in Q's 'anti-time' future in All Good Things, Admiral Janeway wore her rank insignia on the right shoulder.

Slight alterations and ornamentations were seen to this uniform while it was in service, such as Dr Noam's medical harness, the artic gear for away missions, and several versions of the jacket that sported a higher collar.

The dress uniform in service, by 2401 at least, quickly became the standard for ranking officers. Commodore Geordi La Forge wore his Operations division dress uniform on arrival on the Titan-A, though the quick communication the ship shared with him before his arrival showed him in the same uniform.

It was designed by costume designer Michael Crow, who wanted to update Starfleet's formal dress to match contemporary navy. The white dress uniform introduced in Star Trek: Insurrection was, in his opinion, closer to real-world Navy dinner jackets.

This version was similar to the standard duty uniform, though single-breasted, with a zip running along the middle. The collar was tapered and bore the division colours, while the rank insignia were moved downwards, rising vertically, rather than arranged horizontally. Flag officers wore their insignia on both sides of the collar

Fleet Admiral Shelby wore a variation of this uniform during the Enterprise-F's final flight, with an added gold piping along the collar. She wore the Admiral's variant combadge as well. 

Introduced in the Voyager episode Future's End, the Starfleet uniforms of the 29th Century were designed by Robert Blackman. They returned in Relativity, where audiences had a much better look at them.

As usual, there were three division colours, although the colours themselves had changed through the centuries. Command wore blue, operations wore a gold/brown colour, and science wore a dark green shade.

The Delta was flipped to the side and extended, giving it a diamond shape, while the rank insignia remained on the right side of the collar. A line separated the shoulders from the torso, perhaps to honour the standard Starfleet designs in use on Voyager in 2373, when they were first encountered. 

The uniform in service while the California-class USS Cerritos was zipping through space was based on an abandoned design from Star Trek: Generations. Robert Blackman had created a double-breasted uniform for the crew of the Enterprise-D, though in that film, the idea was scrapped - after the designs had been sent to Playmates.

It was rescued and adapted for Lower Decks. They were described by Character Design Lead Marisa Livingston, in the Lower Decks Season 3 Premiere Special episode of The Ready Room, as a California-class uniform, suggesting that it was unique to that class of vessel.

Lt. Paris, the crew of the Archimedes, and even flashback scenes with Mariner showed other officers in the standard grey-shouldered jumpsuit, so this uniform could have been reserved for certain sections of the fleet. A variant was in use by several flag officers, though, including Admiral Alonso Freeman. 

While one of the dress variants was simply this uniform with a longer top, several more variations popped up on the Cerritos, as well as ornamentations like lab coats, baldrics, and religious headgear. 

For a brief but glorious period, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Trek: Prodigy and Star Trek: Picard were all on the air at the same time, with some crossovers there between. The early and mid-2380s became a bit crowded. The Cerritos was in service in 2382, while the Romulan Supernova took place in 2385.

Roughly in the middle lies the first season of Prodigy, featuring the USS Protostar and more specifically the uniforms assigned to that ship. This was a deliberate decision by the Hageman Brothers and director Ben Hibon, as they explained in an interview with Inverse in 2022:

Since the USS Protostar is an experimental starship, we felt it gave us some freedom to create our own uniform design, as long as it fit alongside the uniforms of this era.

This connects with many other eras of Star Trek that sees several uniform styles in service at the same time.

For The Next Generation's fifth season, and at the suggestion of Patrick Stewart, a new jacket was introduced for Captain Picard. It may have been unique as he is the only character seen wearing it, but costume designer Robert Blackman took inspiration from contemporary Naval officers.

He knew that some Navy captains had a jacket they might wear while on duty, though not specifically the same as the rest of the uniformed officers. For its first appearance in Darmok, this jacket had leather shoulders, sitting atop a suede body and sleeves. For later appearances, this shoulder section would be closer in material to the rest of the jacket.

It was worn open over a grey and black undershirt that was similar in design, at least in the top half, to the provisional ensign's uniform seen in The Next Generation and Lower Decks.

For Star Trek: Discovery's second season opener, Brother, Gersha Phillips designed a new variant of The Original Series' uniform. The bright colours of the different departments were introduced, including red for Operations and Security.

Director Olatunde Osunsanmi approved the use of these uniforms, believing they captured the joy of The Original Series, marking a shift in direction for the show. Quoted in an interview with StarTrek.com, he said:

I think season one felt darker in general, and we knew right off the bat we wanted to go to a lighter tone

Though Brother includes a line suggesting the Enterprise was assigned these 'new' uniforms over the Discovery, the novel Desperate Hours by David Mack states that the uniform was unique to Constitution-class vessels. 

First seen in Q's 'anti-time' future, these uniforms shared similarities with several other iterations. First, the division colour took up the entire upper part of the uniform, similar to those in service between the 2250s-2270s. They were double-breasted, like those from the 2280s-2350s, and black piping separated the shoulders from the body.

This design was never seen in a 'standard' timeline, though it appeared in three different shows. In addition to its appearance in All Good Things, it was also in Deep Space Nine, in the episode The Visitor. Its final, to-date, appearance was in Voyager's Endgame. This occasion also marked the only Admiral variant (Admiral Riker wore an Admiral's uniform from the late-2360s), with added gold piping, as well as the cadet variant, which was grey, with black piping.

The combadge introduced in All Good Things would go into service in the early-mid 2380s, though it was adapted by the 2390s. Like the flag officer uniforms in service in the early-2380s, the rank insignia were worn on the right breast, just above the piping. 

The excursion jacket that was introduced in the late-2270s was designed to function better for away missions, providing ample storage for whatever the wearer might require.

The right sleeve bore rank insignia above the ribbed cuff, while that ribbing extended along the side of the jacket, and inside the wide-brimmed collar.

Often paired with a tricorder on a leather shoulder strap, this jacket was seen most prominently in The Wrath Of Khan and The Search For Spock, though one made a cameo appearance in The Undiscovered Country. 

According to Mr. Scott's Guide To The Enterprise, written by Lora Johnson in 1987, this jacket contained a transponder that would theoretically let the starship know when the wearer was lost.

This jacket was often paired with an excursion-style vest. Admiral, later Captain, Kirk wore at least two variations of this vest between The Wrath Of Khan and Generations.

For the Strange New Worlds second season episode Ad Astra Per Aspera, costume designer Bernadette Croft created an updated dress uniform, one that chronologically appears before those seen in Journey To Babel, Court Martial, and The Counter-Clock Incident.

This new design, worn by regular officers and flag officers alike, retains the gold collar and piping, while adding gold epaulets and sleeve stripes. Standard officers wore their division colours - Gold for Command, Blue for Science/Medical and Red for Security/Operations, while Flag Officers wore black.

A further variant appeared a year earlier, worn by cadets. Then-Cadet Nyota Uhura wore one to dinner in Captain Pike's quarters, not realising it was a more casual affair. 

In a period of rapid change, Starfleet introduced another uniform variation in 2259, although the events of Among The Lotus Eaters suggest it was available as early as 2254. This was similar to the Constitution-class variant introduced in Brother, though it removed the asymmetrical collar and zipper for a more comfortable design.

Unlike the uniform shown prior, this seems to have gone into wide use. The crews of the Enterprise and the Cayuga both wore this style, as did Montgomery Scott, who was assigned to the solar research vessel USS Stardiver.

This uniform retained the Delta on the left breast seen in Discovery's second season, though it moved the rank insignia to the sleeve cuffs. A Delta pattern was added from the shoulders, running down the length of the sleeves. Gold, Blue, Red and White remained the department colours, although Dr M'Benga had another variant - light blue, with a chest flap that could be opened. 

The Enterprise was also equipped with tactical field uniforms, retaining the body armour introduced in Discovery. A new, grey field jacket was also available, bearing the individual ship's path on the left shoulder. This era also included a 'skant' for male and female crewmembers, as well as a medical one-piece jumpsuit. Flag officers wore a black variant with additional gold ornamentation.

Designed by William Ware Theiss, the uniform seen from The Man Trap onwards (with variations) marked the distinctive visual style of early Star Trek. 

Theiss explained in Star Trek: Costumes: Five Decades of Fashion from the Final Frontier by Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann that the bright Green, Blue, and Red colours were picked for simple reasons: they stood out well on-camera, which was especially important in an era where many televisions were still in black and white.

The oft-discussed Green v Gold uniforms (it was the dress, just years earlier) were lime-green in reality, though photographed gold. This explains the apparent discrepancy with the dress uniforms, as though Science/Medical and Operations/Security remain the same colour, Command switches to an obvious green.

These uniforms had rank insignia on the sleeve cuffs, though they did away with the Delta patterning from shoulder to cuff. The assignment Delta was still on the left breast, which, in the early days of Star Trek, was ship-specific. The standard Delta was originally unique to the USS Enterprise, though this has been retconned in the years since.

This version of the uniform also featured a dress variant for female officers. Both versions came with high leather boots, while the standard duty uniform also had pants that fell as far as the calf.

Starbases had their variations on these uniforms, leaning more closely to the versions from the mid-2250s. Cadets of Starfleet Academy also had their own version, more silver in colour, with a bright, shining material.

Higher-ranking officers were given the option of wearing a casual, suede jacket. This bomber-style jacket retained the overall idea of the Monster Maroons, though it eschewed the double-breasted design. Rank insignia were still displayed on the shoulder strap (now minus a clasp) and the left sleeve cuff.

A silver buckle fastened the jacket at the bottom, while the actual cuffs appeared to be made from a leather-like material. As with most uniform designs, the brass Delta was positioned on the left breast.

Fleet Admiral Morrow wore the first of these jackets to be seen in Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, which was followed by an almost identical jacket worn by Captain Kirk, as well as an Operations division variant - evidenced by the colour change on the shoulder strap - worn by Captain Scott.

Star Trek: Discovery introduced several uniform variants in its debut season, including those shown first aboard the USS Shenzhou. Designed by Gersha Phillips, these uniforms were a departure from those seen in The Original Series and beyond.

Bryan Fuller's original idea for Discovery would have been closer to the uniforms seen aboard the Enterprise in the 2260s, but Phillips believed that those uniforms didn't 'resonate' in the modern day. She incorporated contemporary designs into these uniforms, something that both made life easier and added new challenges.

She described each uniform as being perfectly fitted to each performer, including the outerwear seen most often, and the underwear saved for more personal scenes. Division colours were once again updated, though Command remained gold. Silver and copper were used for the Science and Operations divisions. 

Captain's uniforms differed by adding additional slim piping between the shoulder and asymmetrical neck (a Fuller-mandated design choice, though Phillips was hired after Fuller's departure). 

This uniform came with many variants. Flag Officers, Starbase Officers, specialised Science Officers, and prisoners all had their versions of the uniform, while away teams were given tactical vests to wear over their chests to deflect most weapons (Klingon Mek'Leths were seemingly unavailable for testing). 

Skants, worn over shorts, with high boots, were also an option on board the Shenzhou and the Discovery. Unlike later uniforms, the rank insignia was displayed on Starfleet Delta, still worn on the left breast. A new Cadet-level Delta was seen in Discovery, most often worn by then-Cadet Sylvia Tilly.

For Admiral Michael Burnham, there was never a dull moment. Having travelled with her son back to Starfleet, she was assigned to see Zora and the de-fitted USS Discovery off for their final mission.

For this scene, a new Admiral's uniform was designed that incorporated elements of the original Gersha Phillips uniforms for season one. Flag officers retained gold bars on the shoulder, now adding those same bars to the sleeve cuffs. 

The rank insignia were displayed across the front of the neck, split into two. An updated Delta took its usual place on the left breast, while a belt was added around the waist. This uniform was also two-tone in colour, while still command red overall.

The uniform introduced in the Strange New Worlds episode A Quality Of Mercy is a variation of the 'monster maroon' uniform in use from the mid-2270s into the 24th Century. Costume designer Bernadette Croft took inspiration from those uniforms first seen in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, updating them to bring them more in line with the current uniforms of 2259.

They retained the chest flap, shoulder strap, and wrist strap, now adding the Delta pattern from the Strange New Worlds duty uniforms. The Delta on the left breast was a direct reproduction of those introduced in the film, as was the belt.

One key difference between this alternate version of the uniform and those seen in The Wrath Of Khan is the Admiral's gold piping that is missing from the black border of the chest flap. 

For The Next Generation's third season, Robert Blackman adapted William Ware Theiss's early designs, creating a new two-piece uniform to be worn by the primary cast. This was in conjunction with the first and second season jumpsuits, which were still used in the third season by extras.

The early version of the updated look had a distinctive pair of lines down the chest, though these were quickly removed as the show went on. In Ensign Ro, this new uniform was shown to have an undetectable fastening in the front, revealing a division-specific undershirt beneath.

For The Next Generation, Command and Operations/Security had swapped colours, so the Captain now wore red, while the security chief and the chief engineer wore gold. Medical staff and sciences still wore blue.

This uniform remained in service for the rest of the 2360s and could be seen in use in the 2370s, though it was gradually phased out in preference for the new gray/black uniforms introduced in Star Trek: First Contact. Several variations were seen as other timelines popped up. In Yesterday's Enterprise, the standard duty uniform was revised, adding an equipment belt, black cuffs to the sleeves, and a higher collar. This snuck into the prime timeline as Geordi La Forge is seen wearing one at the episode's close.

The uniforms for Star Trek Beyond were designed by Sanja Milkovic Hays, returning to Trek after working on Star Trek: Insurrection. For both Chris Pine and Karl Urban, her designs were an improvement on Kaplan's uniforms from the first two films. They were both interviewed by Collider in 2016, with Pine commenting:

The pants were fantastic, this time.

He also explained that this version of Kirk's uniform was closer in theme to that seen in The Original Series, as it was a mustard-green colour, rather than the bright yellow seen previously. Urban particularly singled out another aspect of Milkovic Hays' designs:

...the women in the Starfleet uniforms in Star Trek Beyond all had ranks on their uniforms.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture shows Admiral Kirk in several uniform variants. The first, and the one that inspired the Flag Officer uniforms in Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness, is the collared white and grey two-piece uniform. 

This bears epaulets on the shoulders, a perscan device over the abdomen, a Delta on the left breast, and rank insignia on the sleeve cuffs. The second variant is a simple, short-sleeved white tunic, seen when Kirk meets Spock and McCoy in the Recreation deck. After this, Kirk slips into a standard, light-blue service uniform.

Costume designer Robert Fletcher said, in the February 1980 issue of Fantastic Films, that the various uniforms were inspired by the then-contempoary Navy uniforms, in that there were several variants available there too. 

Robert Blackman returned to Star Trek once again in Star Trek: First Contact, designing a new, darker uniform, this time to appear better on a big screen, while also suiting director Jonathan Frakes' colour palette for this latest iteration.

These grey-shouldered jumpsuits were similar in design to the previous uniforms seen on Deep Space Nine and Voyager, though they swapped the division colours underneath the main jumpsuit onto the undershirts.

Several variations of these uniforms were seen throughout their lifespan. Captains could opt for a jacket over a jumpsuit, something Captain Sisko often opted for. Both Sisko and Picard were seen sporting a vest, similar to the vest seen under the Monster Maroon, made from a similar material. Like Ro Laren's magically unfastening jumpsuit, Commander Kira was seen with a surprise jacket in Tacking Into The Wind. 

Despite making contact with Starfleet in 2374, the USS Voyager did not adopt these uniforms, retaining the standard jumpsuit from the early 2370s.

Costume designer Robert Fletcher returned to work on The Wrath Of Khan, working with new director Nicholas Meyer on the so-called Monster Maroons. This is the apocryphal name given to this style of uniform by fans, as they are so difficult to reproduce.

The uniform consists of the double-breasted maroon jacket over a division-specific undershirt. The ribbing on the collar and cuffs of this undershirt was a style of vertical quilting called Trapunto. This was already a rare technique at the time, which itself caused issues and stress among the design team.

These uniforms were more or less standard, though female officers could opt for a skirt. Flag officers were given a gold trim along the black clasp of the jacket, as well as additional gold piping on the sleeve and pant.

The belt, introduced in The Wrath Of Khan, was gradually phased out. The crew of the Enterprise-C, lost in 2345, had abandoned it along with the ribbed undershirt. They had also phased out handheld communicators, instead using the brass Delta on the left breast, as would become standard from the late-2340s onward.

As evidenced by the crew of the USS Bozeman, these uniforms came into service by 2278 and remained standard until at least 2349, as seen in Jack Crusher's holographic message to Wesley in the episode Family.

Costume designer Christine Clark created the new Starfleet uniform that is first seen clearly in The End Is The Beginning. The Flag officer uniform is almost identical the the standard uniform, with an added gold band encircling the shoulders and division colours extending along the torso.

All officers wore their rank insignia on the collar (both sides for Flag officers) and their combadge on the left breast. 

The uniform was designed to give audiences a sense of 'elegance', according to Clark when interviewed on The Ready Room. Star Trek: Prodigy executive producer and head writer for season two, Aaron Waltke, addressed the apparent crossover issue, teasing audiences that these uniforms were in service during the events of Prodigy. They finally appeared in the last, to-date, episode, Ouroboros Part 2.