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Originally Posted by Jeyl
The promotional ceremony is also a great example of how poorly Generations handled its budget. They crafted and tailored all those sailor outfits for the entire cast for this one scene (and a bit on the bridge) yet for their actual starfleet uniforms that they would spend the rest of the movie in, they elected to only tailor new uniforms for Picard and Data and had everyone else either wear their TNG show uniforms or borrow uniforms from DS9. The latter one being quite hilarious since you can tell the DS9 uniforms did not fit the actors at all. And they did this because they thought the zippers on the TNG uniforms would look goofy.
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They did design new uniforms actually, but they backtracked late in the day after they'd already spent the money on them, hence the borrowing of uniforms from elsewhere. The action figures used the originally intended uniforms. The combadge with the delta sitting on a cut-out rectangle was done for the movie and does survive the costume rethink, and was carried over into DS9 and Voyager.
I like the result of it though - we have a transition period from one uniform style to the other for the first time on an existing ship (we'd seen the different DS9 co-existing with TNG ones already of course), instead of everyone already wearing the new one.