Oct 17, 2023
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock - Scotty's Off-Duty Jacket Concept by Robert Fletcher
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock - Scotty's Off-Duty Jacket Concept by Robert Fletcher
Ashton Huntoon (Terri Garber) Blue/green blouse, white skirt & green sash.. North & South: Book 2 (1986). Costume by Robert Fletcher.
So Mike Minor (amazing artistic mind behind prominent Phase II, TMP, TWOK Star Trek concept art) had an . . .
Idea.
For Spock's Kolinhar costume in TMP.
Then we have Robert Fletcher's concept.
Which was . . . *ahem* . . . also an idea:
What we got:
. . . Y'all.
What happened?
I don't know for sure but we may have gotten robbed on this costume here.🤣
Leonard Nimoy looking at the concept art for Spock's Kolinhar look for TMP: 👀 . . . So are these zine covers, or? . . . Am I wearing lingerie in this film?
*Emphatic nodding from the concept artists*
Images via startrekvulcanology and thetrekcollective
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branches entwined form the tree
after finishing Star Trek: The Motion Picture and realizing i have no chill, i immediately restarted it with the commentary and have things to report
so the commentators discuss the vulcan script on those hella flattering robes spock wears upon his return to the enterprise
according to the costume designer, bob fletcher, these glyphs represent three words:
Rata ("concept"), Tafar ("discipline"), and Tapan ("process")
i’ve also seen the latter two clarified as referring to “mental discipline” and “cerebral process”. anyways, that’s pretty cool and definitely tracks as far as the uber intellectual vulcans are concerned
BUT bob fletcher took this a bit further in his notes. he elaborated that the conceptual meaning behind the combination of these words is:
“branches entwined form the tree”
and that’s beautiful. the whole movie is a commentary on the need to go beyond the “cold logic” of both the vulcans and v’ger. and here we have spock walking in with these poetic-ass robes which are honestly a slap in the face to his Kolinahr training.
for a line like that you need more than logic. you need well...a simple feeling.
Robert Fletcher, a costume designer whose more than six decades of credits on screen and the Broadway stage included the first four Star Tre
ROBERT FLETCHER (1922-Died April 5th 2021,at 98). American costume and set designer. He was best known for designing costumes for major ballet and opera companies in addition to films, television specials, and New York stageplay. Fletcher had a long association with the science fiction franchise Star Trek. He served as costume designer for the first four Star Trek feature films—Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, and The Voyage Home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fletcher_(costume_designer)