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This is Seven of Nine's
leather field jacket.

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Well, Michael was a
genius Costume Designer.

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Everything that's come out of
his shop has been phenomenal.

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It's just really cool to
see it up close and personal

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and know that like, oh yeah, this is mine.

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This is my Starfleet uniform.

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Oftentimes our wardrobe is the final step

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or the first step of discovering

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or waking up your character.

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The costume is a hugely important part

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of me finding a role.

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It was definitely a need for Jack to have

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this element of swagger
to him, and I feel that

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in that opening costume,
that brown suede jacket,

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it lifts him away from what
other people are wearing.

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And the minute that costume goes on,

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you feel like you're stepping into Jack.

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I really do.

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The work that Michael Crow
and his team have done

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on here has been exemplary in my opinion.

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It's kind of blown me away.

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They've blown me away with the speed.

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I came into this season

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with a very short prep
period and we dove in.

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The exciting thing for me was

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bringing back the legacy characters.

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We wanted them to hearken
back to their uniforms

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when we first see them but
be separate from Starfleet.

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A lot of Picard's costumes this season

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needed to feel like a
uniform, but not be a uniform.

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As a retired Admiral,
his costumes still needed

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to have an official feeling about them.

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I think we found a nice line
with both Riker and Picard

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and you know, Beverly in
the first several episodes.

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As we progressed, you know
Beverly had to change clothes,

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whereas everybody else is in the uniform.

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So, every time she had to change clothes

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there was a new iteration of a design.

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We definitely wanted to
echo her uniform from TNG,

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but do it in a more
badass female action hero

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kind of way, so that she
looked in a little more rugged.

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We started with this design
and then we gave her a lab coat

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in a couple of episodes as
she's sort of taking over

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in the medical bay, to do a nod

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towards her lab coat in TNG.

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So, I think she's got, actually got more

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costume changes than anyone else.

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And Gates has been so
much fun this season.

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You know, I think she's had a lot of fun.

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I've had a lot of fun working with her.

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Come on, you know, he's not a hugger.

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Oh, I know. But it is
just so good to see you.

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Worf is meditating and
trying to ease his anger.

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We took a lot of influence from
traditional Samurai costume,

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but tried to throw in a
little hint of, you know,

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his Klingon ancestry, because obviously

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that's very important to the character

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and the history of Star Trek.

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We also had to revisit his
baldric from The Next Generation,

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Deep Space: Nine and all
the films, and revisit it

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in a way that incorporated
it into the costume.

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This was very flat when we got it.

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It was all solid color.

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So, we went in,

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all of this has been
brushed into the fabric.

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Admiral on the bridge.

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At ease.

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We were inheriting the
uniforms from Season 2.

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I knew that coming in,
but we did want to create

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a different look and then give it

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a slightly different feel.

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We cropped the jackets,
we made them a little more

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form-fitted than they had been previously.

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Getting to put on the Starfleet uniform.

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It's a special moment.

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Just getting fitted for
it was a special moment.

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When they finally zip you up
and they straighten the badge,

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you are joining a club that

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is a wonderful elite
club. And it felt great.

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Putting it on, I remember
looking in the mirror, and again

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it was one of those moments,
like there's a combadge there,

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and it's a very
out of body, surreal moment.

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My son's very young but
he seems to have gone

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Star Trek bananas and he's
mesmerized by the fact

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that his dad's in a Starfleet uniform.

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The first time I stepped on set in it,

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it was like, "Oh my God, I'm
wearing a Starfleet uniform."

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Like not an outfit, not
a costume, not something

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I made myself, but something that

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the costume department made for Star Trek.

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It was a huge moment.

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They're also super comfortable.

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The pants are like yoga pants.

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It's so well constructed
and there are so many

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hidden details like
the piping on the pants

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are the same fabric as on the shoulders.

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It's silk screened with
three-dimensional ink.

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You know, it gets silk screened and then

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it sort of gets baked
and as it gets baked,

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as it gets heated, the
ink raises a little bit.

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When we started seeing some
of our legacy cast members,

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and I think Ro was the first scripted,

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she needed pockets of some sort.

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So, I said, "Okay, well, we'll
make a dress uniform jacket

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for her that has pockets
and that'll just be

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the new dress uniform design."

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As if that wasn't amazing,
they created these

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really fitted leather
jackets that are still

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the designated colors, but there's

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a little more swagger to them.

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We didn't want it to look like, you know

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a traditional leather motorcycle jacket,

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but we wanted it to have that
action hero quality to it.

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I don't know that the audience
will be able to appreciate

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all of the detail that has
gone into these garments.

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I mean, the little
perforations in the leather

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are in the shape of a delta.

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The camera, I don't
think, will ever see that.

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There's detail there, so that we feel

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like we are in an immersive environment.

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This is all from scratch. The
solid black leather has been-

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before the jackets are made

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they're deglazed, painted,
sanded, painted again,

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so that the leather has
the right texture to it.

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These field jackets
started out as a design

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that I did for Raffi to
sort of incorporate her

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into Starfleet, but keep
her rough and tumble.

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Terry liked it so much that he was like,

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"I think this could be
everybody's field jacket."

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So, we went to work building multiples

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of all of these jackets for
all of our cast members,

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and they've been a big hit.

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I've worn a lot of spacesuits in my day.

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It was not the best part of the job.

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I said to Michael, as
I put on this fabulous

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kind of a biker jacket, that
it is the most comfortable

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and coolest spacesuit I've ever worn.

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Almost every time I see him, he tells me

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how much he loves it and, like, the fact

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that he wears it between
takes is a miracle.

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And I don't think you'll
ever find mine on the shelf.

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I think it may just have
to leave the lot with me.