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Star Trek costume ideas

SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!!Registered User regular
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At the end of the month, my wife has her annual company Christmas party. This year's theme is Star Trek. She's not into Star Trek in the slightest, so she doesn't care what she wears, but I am a huge Trek fan, and I want to come up with a pretty cool costume. I have a beard and mustache (albiet very shortly trimmed) so the obvious choice is to go as Riker, but that seems to be the easy way out. Plus, I have somewhat built up a reputation for crazy hijinks with regards to my costume that I have to live up to (e.g. - last year was "Dress to the nines" and me and the husband of one of my wife's coworkers dressed up in the orange and blue suits from Dumb and Dumber).

I was hoping to go as a character that would really resonate with true Trek fans like my wife's boss, or even somehow go as a non-humanoid character like the Crystalline Entity, or something equally as absurd. I'm at a loss for what to do.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

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  • BursarBursar Hee Noooo! PDX areaRegistered User regular
    Mudd?

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    detachable sideburns

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  • MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    You go as William Riker, she goes as Thomas Riker.

    Riker and the androgynous woman he got brain wiped.

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  • FiggyFiggy Fighter of the night man Champion of the sunRegistered User regular
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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    Figgy wrote: »
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    While she has the body to pull off that costume, I do not.

    Besides, I don't have curly hair.

  • SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
    A pair of Bynars would be an interesting choice, but sadly difficult to pull off on short notice.

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  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    MichaelLC wrote: »
    You go as William Riker, she goes as Thomas Riker.

    In this line of thought, with the beard, you can pretty much do "any character" and "Mirror Universe any character."

    Tier 5 nerds may criticize you for not going goatee for it, though.

  • Space PickleSpace Pickle Registered User regular
    Be those two bizarro fishhead aliens from season 2 (?)!

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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    Snicketysnick wrote: »
    A pair of Bynars would be an interesting choice, but sadly difficult to pull off on short notice.

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    This is awesome. I can't believe I didn't think of it.

    Now, how the hell do I replicate the outfits?

  • FiggyFiggy Fighter of the night man Champion of the sunRegistered User regular
    SeñorAmor wrote: »
    Snicketysnick wrote: »
    A pair of Bynars would be an interesting choice, but sadly difficult to pull off on short notice.

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    This is awesome. I can't believe I didn't think of it.

    Now, how the hell do I replicate the outfits?

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