>>>"All hands, this is the Captain. Just a reminder that it's
>>>Velour Shirt Week here on the Triumphant, and as always,
>>>trousers are optional."
>>
>>LOL And now I have the mental imagery of Cosmonaut going around in
>>Hawaiian shorts, just because he said he can. (Not with the velour
>>shirt, though, because eww.)
>
>The first time I saw the Enterprise uniforms, I thought the
>horizontal zippers on the pants legs meant they had a zip-off
>convertible shorts mode. They may well have done - that's a peculiar
>place for pockets - but I can't recall ever seeing anyone's uniform
>actually in shorts mode, alas.
>

Would've been a nice nod to TOS for T'Pol and/or Hoshi to were the shorts form occasionally, if it did.

�They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.�
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington