While we can only imagine what sci-fi substance the suits are supposed to be made of, the reality is something of a buzzkill. You see, the costume designers for the original Star Trek series were somewhere between opportunistic cheapskates and resourceful masterminds. You know those classic orange EV suits our heroes would sometimes use to explore strange alien planets? Yeah, they were repurposed shower curtains.
CBS Television DistributionCaptain Kirk's suit, meanwhile, was made entirely out of ribbed and lubricated latex.
This wasn't the only time in Trek history when necessity became the mother of ... stealing household items. Two decades later, the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation were having trouble with the design of a rather iconic prop: Geordi LaForge's visor, the VISOR.
The design team spent three months working on possible designs, all of which got nixed for one reason or another. Fortunately, Trek artist Mike Okuda was watching his girlfriend put a barrette in her hair one day when he thought to himself: "Wow, wouldn't that look good over Geordi's eyes." In other words, people made lots of jokes about the VISOR looking like a 1980s "banana clip" because the VISOR was a 1980s banana clip.
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