Star Trek Halloween Costume Ideas for Adults

Star Trek is one of the longest running television series in history. There are five Star Trek series and eleven movies that you can use to find inspiration for your Star Trek Halloween costume. However, of these, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation and the new Star Trek XI movie are the most popular. You can make an easy Enterprise crew member uniform costume or go for a more elaborate Star Trek alien costume. Whatever you choose, you will end up with a cool costume that will turn heads at Halloween parties. When creating your Star Trek costume, refer to high-resolution pictures from the original Star Trek television shows and movies to ensure that your costume is made properly.

Star Trek Halloween Costume Ideas for Adults: The Original Series Costumes

It's fairly simple to make costumes of the uniforms of the crew members from the Star Trek original series. To create the original series Star Trek costumes for men, get a long-sleeved velour shirt, a pair of pants that reaches mid-calf and some black boots. Kirk should wear a gold shirt, Spock and McCoy should wear blue and Scotty should wear red. If the shirt doesn't have black trim at the neck, you can sew or hot glue it on. Add wavy gold metallic braid to the end of the sleeve. Costumes for women crew members such as Uhura should be a close-fitting velour mini-dress with a low asymmetrical black-trimmed neckline pointing slightly to the left. In most of the Star Trek original series episodes Uhura wears red, but gold is also acceptable. Add accessories and props like phasers, tricorders and wireless earpieces. Attach an embroidered Enterprise insignia, which looks something like a gold upside-down V, to the left lapel of each Star Trek crew uniform costume.

Don't forget about the aliens from the Star Trek original series. The original series Klingon costume is easy to make from a brown or black long-sleeved shirt and pants, brown boots, a metallic gold sleeveless tunic and sash and some swarthy brown makeup. You can make your original series Klingon more complete by putting on a scruffy dark beard, mustache and upswept eyebrows with spirit gum. Make an easy Andorian costume by coupling an exotic-looking brown or gray tunic and pants with blue makeup and a white wig with small blue antennae. Create a Star Trek original series Romulan costume by wearing pointed Spock ears with a black shirt and pants, a metallic silver jacket and a red sash draped over the left shoulder.

Star Trek Halloween Costume Ideas for Adults: Star Trek XI Movie Costumes

To make Star Trek XI movie crew costumes, find a black long-sleeved undershirt and a gold, red or blue lightly checkered shirt with a slight V neckline to go on top. Wear long black pants tucked into black boots. The women's Star Trek mini-dress also has V neckline and goes over a black undershirt. Apply a plastic Enterprise emblem painted metallic gold to the left lapel and straight gold ribbon braid to the sleeves of the shirts of both men's and women's Star Trek XI movie uniform costumes.

Make a Star Trek XI movie Romulan such as Nero by either shaving your head or wearing a bald headpiece and adding pointed ears. Draw or paint tattoos on your forehead, chin and cheeks. Wear a black shirt and pants with a long brown robe over the top.

Star Trek Halloween Costume Ideas for Adults: The Next Generation Costumes

To create a Star Trek Next Generation crew uniform costume, get a pair of black pants and a red, blue or gold shirt. Attach black fabric to the shoulder area of the uniform shirt. The shirt should have a slightly rounded collar with several gold-toned pips on the right side. The number of pips varies depending on the rank of the crew member; Picard should have four, Riker and LaForge should have three, Data two and a half and Worf two. Also add a left-leaning triangular section of black fabric to the bottom edge of the shirt. On the left lapel, wear a metallic silver Enterprise insignia on a gold horizontal ovular base. Worf should wear a silver metallic sash over his right shoulder. Women's costumes are usually the same as men's in Star Trek the Next Generation; however, "skant" mini-dresses for both men and women did appear early in the series. The skant is essentially a longer version of the tunic of the two-piece uniform, except with short sleeves and without the black triangular border at the bottom.

A Star Trek Next Generation Klingon costume is more difficult to make than the original series Klingon due to the cranial ridges. For best results, use a bald cap with a long dark wig attached. Mold the ridges from silicone caulk, then apply liquid latex when the silicone has dried. Apply makeup to match the makeup you plan to wear on your face. Get a black shirt, a pair of gray pants and black boots. Make a gray sleeveless ribbed jacket to go over the clothes. Add accessories such as a sash and a prop Klingon disruptor and Bat'leth, the curved Klingon sword.

A Star Trek Next Generation Borg costume is also challenging to make, but highly rewarding. Get some close-fitting black garments such as long underwear or a black catsuit. Get some rubber tubing, recyclables such as cardboard and plastic containers, bits of junk, broken electronics and a toy rifle. Other accessories, such as a helmet, athletic knee, elbow and shin guards and shoulder pads may be useful for building your Borg costume. If any of the pieces you plant to use aren't black, spray paint them. Use model paints to create consoles with buttons. Assemble the costume by hot gluing the pieces to your helmet and athletic guards. This is a very elaborate project, so start well in advance of Halloween.

For even more cool Halloween costume ideas for adults, read Cheap Movie-Themed Halloween Costumes for Men, Homemade Halloween Costume Ideas for Women and Cool Group Halloween Costume Ideas.