Change of Uniform

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Fan Art
Title: Change of Uniform
Artist: Shelley Butler
Date(s): 1995
First Published:
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Fandom: Star Trek: TOS
External Links: online at AO3
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Change of Uniform is an illo by Shelley Butler. When it was posted to AO3, the artist titled it "Take it Off."

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It portrays Spock from Star Trek: TOS, and was printed in T'hy'la #16.

It is a companion piece to Dreaming.

Fan Comments

1994

To all of you who, when I acted like a three-year old over Shelley’s magnificent "Change of Uniform" in the art show didn't bid so I could have it for the minimum price, and never even told me until later... Bless you!... [1]

1995

No one does blue jean and what's inside them quite like Shelley. I especially love the Spock. A friend and I spent some amount of time discussing whether Spock would cock his hip like that. She's a Trekker who loves the idea of K/S but isn't really a reader, and she laughs at us, that I would say I think Spock would not cock his hip like that, not under "normal" circumstances even considering K/S. She says with all the stuff we have them do, she can't believe I'd quibble over a point such as that. I understand this particular point of distinction very well, and I know you do too. But she thinks it's funny. I decided that he's in front of a mirror, trying out what he thinks Kirk might like, or maybe what he's observed Kirk doing, A drawing like this, besides being exquisite in its execution, is a pleasure because we get to imagine the circumstance surrounding it." [2]

1996

See the look in his eyes. It’s as if he has made up his mind. It’s now or never. I only get one chance. [3]

2023

It reminds me of the movie Baffled! where you can see Leonard Nimoy's character removing his sweater to take a shower with his arms crossed too, only for the phone ringing interrupting him >< [4]

References

  1. ^ from Come Together #9
  2. ^ from Come Together #19
  3. ^ from The K/S Press #4 (1996)
  4. ^ ChlorideAttila, AO3 (June 2023)