Idea.

For Spock's Kolinhar costume in TMP.

Then we have Robert Fletcher's concept.

Which was . . . *ahem* . . . also an idea:

What we got:

. . . Y'all.

What happened?

I don't know for sure but we may have gotten robbed on this costume here.🤣

Leonard Nimoy looking at the concept art for Spock's Kolinhar look for TMP: 👀 . . . So are these zine covers, or? . . . Am I wearing lingerie in this film?

*Emphatic nodding from the concept artists*

Costume For Ricardo Montalban As Khan

Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan

Designed By Robert Fletcher

Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds

after finishing Star Trek: The Motion Picture and realizing i have no chill, i immediately restarted it with the commentary and have things to report

so the commentators discuss the vulcan script on those hella flattering robes spock wears upon his return to the enterprise

according to the costume designer, bob fletcher, these glyphs represent three words:

Rata ("concept"), Tafar ("discipline"), and Tapan ("process")

i’ve also seen the latter two clarified as referring to “mental discipline” and “cerebral process”. anyways, that’s pretty cool and definitely tracks as far as the uber intellectual vulcans are concerned

BUT bob fletcher took this a bit further in his notes. he elaborated that the conceptual meaning behind the combination of these words is:

“branches entwined form the tree”

and that’s beautiful. the whole movie is a commentary on the need to go beyond the “cold logic” of both the vulcans and v’ger. and here we have spock walking in with these poetic-ass robes which are honestly a slap in the face to his Kolinahr training.