PIC: Remembrance
Please note: This article contains spoilers for ST: Picard 1x01 (and earlier events that you should really already know about by now).
Eighteen years after Nemesis, the first episode of Star Trek: Picard opens with our titular admiral playing a game of poker with his old friend Data, who wears the DS9 style of uniform he died in. It’s hard to tell, but it looks like the vertical lines on the grey shoulder area of this remake may have been made by pleating the fabric, rather than quilting.
Yes, our favourite robot is back from the dead, but can we talk about these seams?
Picard himself doesn’t wear anything particularly noteworthy just yet, which is fine, because this was all a dream. Sadly, I can’t say the same for the next scene, in which this cool Xahean guy’s awesome vest–
–does not prevent him from being immediately murdered.
Great lining on the vest, though.
Jean-Luc, awake now, strolls through the vineyards of Château Picard looking absolutely dapper. With a cane and flat cap, he is the very image of a peaceful, pastoral retirement. Somehow, this is the cottagecore content we all needed in our Star Trek.
Number One also looking very gentlemanly.
In a move that seems surprisingly self-important, Picard also appears to be wearing a pin of his own family crest while touring the grounds… but I think he just feels naked without a little badge there. I also appreciate that he has pinned it to – in true Trek fashion – an asymmetrical sweater.
Straight lines were banned in 2360.
Speaking of great sweaters, another member of the household who wears the Picard family crest is Laris, Jean-Luc’s Romulan housekeeper.
The fuzziness offsets the pointiness.
Our plot needs a catalyst, so a mean reporter is introduced to bully Picard into action. Her outfit is fine – nothing particularly futuristic except the weird single lapel – but she accessorizes it with digital makeup. We only get to see this concept for a few seconds, but I’m sold, I want ten, and I wish she’d gone with the indigo lip.
And here I am using crushed berries and charcoal like a chump.
Back to moving the plot forward, important character Dahj shows up to the vineyard wearing what I can only describe as an elven cloak.
Good boys know good fashion.
This gorgeous coat appears to be made of a heavy green wool with black strappy accents, a big slouchy hood, and a very pointy hemline. The sides cross over in front instead of having a traditional closure, which seems like it would leave your tummy chilly, but does allow for greater flexibility.
Always buy a coat that you can wear in snow, wind, and combat.
I’m also a huge fan of the thumbhole sleeves/built-in gloves.
Next, it’s time to visit the Starfleet Archives, which means another rib knit sweater.
If you’d spent a lifetime in polyester uniforms, you’d make the same choice.
I know it makes sense that, in any century, most people will still just wear normal, everyday clothes. But it doesn’t quite feel like the future without, like, androgynous holograms in wispy all-white outfits made of sheer fabrics and angular lines, you know?
Oh, there we go.
After some unfortunate events, our hero finds himself speaking with one Dr. Agnes Jurati, whose lab coat is business in front… box cutter mishap in the back?
Maybe she Hulks out sometimes and needs a contingency.
And then, just when you thought we couldn’t possibly introduce any more characters, a dark and brooding Romulan makes a dramatic entrance.
I’m sure the outfit is great, but these guys REALLY like shadows.
