We’re still a few months away from the launch of Star Trek: Picard, but for the first time, fans are getting a look at Jean-Luc Picard’s final Starfleet uniform thanks to a display at the just-opened Destination Star Trek convention in Birmingham, England.
The former Enterprise captain, we learned earlier this year, was promoted to the rank of a Starfleet Admiral before his retirement from the service — years before the events of Star Trek: Picard — and today, Admiral Picard’s uniform from the upcoming series was unveiled to fans at the UK convention, the first official look at a Starfleet costume from the new series.
Thanks to TrekCore correspondent Ronan O’Flaherty, we’ve got these great new images to share this morning right from the show floor in Birmhingham.
Clearly influenced by the many years of Bob Blackman Starfleet uniform designs seen on television and in film throughout the 1990s, this 24th Century uniform created by Picard costume designer Christine Clark is the first new senior service wardrobe design of that era introduced since the late-Dominion War years, as Admirals such as Bill Ross and Kathryn Janeway appeared in uniforms based off the grey-shouldered design introduced in 1996’s Star Trek: First Contact.
This new design for Admiral Picard also debuted today in a first look at Star Trek: Picard — Countdown #3, the third and final issue in the soon-to-launch prequel comic series coming from IDW Publishing in November.
Created by artist Sara Pitre-Durocher, the comic cover features Jean-Luc Picard wearing this same uniform in a story set to shed light on the years which lead up to the Star Trek: Picard era.
Curiously, we still haven’t gotten a good look at the new Picard-era Starfleet duty uniform outside of a few fleeting glances in the New York Comic Con trailer that arrived earlier this month, but perhaps we’ll get that chance between now and late January when the series debuts.
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