Apart from being a legendary comic book artist, Dave Cockrum was well known for his inventive costume designs in the 70s and the 80s. Updating the looks of the Legion of Super-Heroes and the 'All New All Different' X-Men are probably his most famous designs, but I would have loved it if he had been in control of the new Starfleet uniforms in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Anything would have been an improvement to the dull, drab uniforms we actually got. Still, even though Dave Cockrum didn't design these uniforms, at least we got to see him draw them. So that's something, I suppose...
From Marvel's Star Trek #10:
What immediately strikes me is the pant-boot combo. There's not a single iota of my being that believes for the merest of seconds that anybody in the 23rd century would have thought that a good idea. Hell, look at Kirk up there. Even he look pissed.
Uhura fares a little better in a Class B uniform, but the pant-boot still persists, and...sweet god, is she wearing platforms?
It's somehow fitting that the medical uniforms are the most swinging, so "Bones" can show off a little chest hair to the ladies. But there isn't a bigger cock-block in the entire galaxy worse than those damn pant-boots.
Spock looks positively radiant in his leisure uniform, though I think it odd that he was the one chosen to model it. Sulu looks more like the leisure suit kinda guy, anyway.
Scotty's work uniform isn't that far removed from the command level Class A uniform, except it has the misfortune to be a one piece, and it has unsightly cargo pockets. Still, he looks rather chuffed not to be wearing the anti-radiation suit.
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