Haunted Doll Pavel Chekov.

also, that collar, is only on during the time they leave Spacedock, by the time they try to hail the starship Grissom, it's gone.

(i'm just imagining it discarded on floor)

And, unless he's got a whole collar stuffed in his jacket, it doesn't go to Genesis with him either.

(they wouldn't let him in the fancy restaurant even with the starched collar)

I assume Sulu took one look, said “I’m doing this because we’re friends,” ripped it off him threw it on the floor and shot it with a phaser.

I knew there was some commentary about Chekov's ridiculous costume in The Fifty Year Mission. I didn't want to go trolling the book trying to find it. But, luckily, a Google search picked up the appropriate snippets posted by someone.

Harve Bennett: ...The first time you see Chekov, well, we didn't see his costume objectively next to Kirk's macho jacket and Bones's marvelous pants. But all of a sudden we see Chekov onstage and he has this great Little Lord Fauntleroy white collar. We got by it without reshooting the day with a series of clever cheats. We got a new collar, picked up close-ups on the black turtleneck for the rest of the picture. But he still has it in the master shot. Bob Fletcher, our costume designer, did Bones from his Georgia background, Kirk from his admiration of naval flyers and stuff like that. This was supposed to be Chekov's admiration - get this - of the poet Pushkin. Now that's a fine hobby for a Russian space person to have, but Pushkin is always drawn in his great Byronic collar from that period and it looks darn silly...

Walter Koenig: That little pink suit was interesting because I thought it was kind of ridiculous looking...We shot some footage with it and Michael Eisner looked at the dailies and said he didn't like it and Leonard came up to me and said "We're going to take you out of the costume." I said "Thank God," and he said "Why didn't you say something?" I was a little bit irritated, thinking "Why the hell didn't I say anything?" It was because I was so into this mindset that I was just the hired help and had no input...

Haunted Doll Pavel Chekov.

also, that collar, is only on during the time they leave Spacedock, by the time they try to hail the starship Grissom, it’s gone.

(i’m just imagining it discarded on floor)

And, unless he’s got a whole collar stuffed in his jacket, it doesn’t go to Genesis with him either.

(they wouldn’t let him in the fancy restaurant even with the starched collar)

Happy (late) valentines 🫠

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