Cosplay - Terran Captain Una

2024-10-31

For Halloween 2024, James redressed the TOS sets as as the mirror universe ISS Enterprise and we all had wonderful fun indulging our inner Terrans.

I turned my dining room into a tinsel factory making around two dozen gold lurex sashes for everyone! My costume was simple, I just needed to pull the delta off of my red shirt and add the original Hong Kong-made Christmas ornament that James provided. But Krista had no idea what she would wear.

One morning I had a realization — We have never seen the Cage-era Terran universe! I sewed a Cage-era Number One tunic for Krista a few years back. What would Terran Captain Una look like?

So I removed the arms and finished them off with some homemade bias tape, added shoulder fringe to match Kirk's gold vest from that episode, and made her a special captain's sash with more fringe (there were actually three different types of sash in that episode.) I went to the local Salvation Army and picked out some good costume jewelry for our fruit salad. I actually got so much that I passed around the extras to the other Terrans on the sets. One of pieces that I found was a 1962 Telstar brooch! I called it Krista's decoration for the conquest of North America, and if Bill Theiss had seen it back in 1967, he would have used it too!

We had a fantastic time playing Terrans and intimidating the prime universe tours! Krista completely owned the role!