Kirk’s Weird Green Uniform Finally Explained By Strange New Worlds
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 5 — «Spock Amok»
Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) wears a familiar green uniform inStar Trek: Strange New Worlds episode 5, which helps explain why Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) wears a similar outfit in Star Trek: The Original Series. In Strange New Worlds episode 5, «Spock Amok,» Pike and Lt. Spock's (Ethan Peck) tense negotiations with a volatile alien race are complicated by the fact that Spock switched bodies with his Vulcan fiancée, T'Pring (Gia Sandhu).
Captain Kirk's green uniform makes several appearances in Star Trek: TOS, and it has always been an odd fashion choice. Markedly different from Kirk's iconic gold command uniform, his green tunic is a wraparound affair that also features his Starfleet delta badge sideways on the left side of his waist. One apocryphal explanation for the outfit was that William Shatner supposedly was gaining weight, but that doesn't hold considering how many times Kirk appeared shirtless in Star Trek. Kirk's green uniform served an important function in the TOS season 1 episode, «The Enemy Within,» which featured an evil, duplicate Kirk. The green shirt worn by the good Captain Kirk helped viewers tell him apart from his twisted doppelganger. But after that purpose was served, Kirk donned his green, wraparound uniform several more times seemingly at random, as well as a variation with gold flares on the shoulders and, finally, his green dress uniform Captain Kirk wore in episodes like «Court Martial.»
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In Strange New Worlds episode 5, Captain Pike is suddenly wearing a variation of Kirk's green uniform. But unlike Kirk's form-fitting velour top,
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