Captain’s Log – October 24th, 2018

Wednesday, October 24th, 2018

While we head towards Axacon, and focus all of our energy there, I am cleaning up my new home and setting up the collecting/sitting room, where I have been storing so many of my costumes as they come in from various sources.  So as I packed away some of these costumes, I started messing with my JJ Klingon costumes, as I recently got in a replica Worf Baldric.

Now while we used the General Chang costume I own for Richard Hatch as Kharn, the new Klingon character Mor’o, who is Kharn’s mentor, will wear a different costume.

Now costuming is one of my passions, and what we had planned for Axanar the feature film was truly awesome.  The concept sketch above is a glimpse of that (and I am writing an article on Klingon costuming for the blog, so stay tuned).

But looking at the JJ costume, I really liked it.  And I though, “What can we do with this costume?” so I took the tunic, a huge, foam jacket, echoing some Russian WWII great coat.

So this is the basic garment (I am not showing the entire costume for a reason).

And throw a Klingon Worf Baldric on and you get this:

Or reverse the Baldric and you get this:

The first sets the Baldric against the grain of the garment, and the second goes with the grain.  I know which I like, but what do you think?

Overall, I love mixing and matching and creating unique ideas for the Klingons.  After Axacon I will write a blog on the subject.

Alec