How Zoe Saldana Feels About Squeezing Into Her Short Star Trek Beyond Outfit

The original Star Trek series was set in the future, but was filmed in the 1960’s. When Paramount decided to reboot the series, they had to take both concepts into account when creating costumes that paid homage to the original, while being new and different at the same time. This means that all the women of Starfleet are running around in dresses, just as they did back in the original series. Zoe Saldana has mixed feelings about this. She’s not shy about calling out the outfit for being really short, but at the same time, she feels good about the fact that she can actually fit into the thing after recently giving birth to twins.

Zoe Saldana did most of her shooting for Star Trek Beyond last summer. At the time, she spoke to Yahoo about how ridiculously short her uniform was in the film. However, as she had only given birth to her twins a few months previously, the fact that she was able to fit into the incredibly small costume was at least one thing to be happy about.

It’s still short. I’m like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ But you know what. I just had twins and the fact that I’m able to wear this little dress seven months later, I’m grateful!

We don’t envy the workout that we’re sure Zoe Saldana went through to get back into miniskirt shape post-pregnancy.On the plus side however, Uhura gets to have sleeves now, so there’s that. One update that the Starfleet uniform has received in Star Trek Beyond is that it now has long sleeves, rather than the short, bordering on nonexistent ones that were part of the uniform in the previous movies. This actually makes the outfit look significantly more like the one Nichelle Nichols wore in the original series. However, the uniform is still ridiculously short. Check out this image that Zoe Saldana sent out on Instagram recently when she was working on reshoots.

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It’s a bit extreme, to say the least. If the camera were positioned any differently, we’d have to put a NSFW tag on this story. While the new Star Trek movies have the barest of reasons to adhere to various aspects of series continuity, you’d think three movies in Starfleet could offer pants as a uniform option.

Zoe Saldana is currently filming Guardians of the Galaxy 2, which also has her squeezing into tight clothes, though they do at least cover most of her body. Star Trek Beyond will be out this summer.

Dirk Libbey
Content Producer/Theme Park Beat

CinemaBlend’s resident theme park junkie and amateur Disney historian, Dirk began writing for CinemaBlend as a freelancer in 2015 before joining the site full-time in 2018. He has previously held positions as a Staff Writer and Games Editor, but has more recently transformed his true passion into his job as the head of the site's Theme Park section. He has previously done freelance work for various gaming and technology sites. Prior to starting his second career as a writer he worked for 12 years in sales for various companies within the consumer electronics industry. He has a degree in political science from the University of California, Davis.  Is an armchair Imagineer, Epcot Stan, Future Club 33 Member.