On the left: A Starfleet officer circa 2364 in Star Trek The Next Generation. On the right: not a Starfleet officer (but very much looking like one), circa 2012 on Earth.
The classy Carte Blanche presenter Chantal Rutter Dros left viewers wondering whether the weekly investigative magazine show on M-Net on Sunday nights warped into the future when she sashayed down brightly-lit corridors on Sunday evening in a black and yellow "officer's dress", looking very much dressed in what could have passed for a Starfleet uniform.
Conspicuously absent was a com badge. Was Chantal Rutter Dros on her way to a South African Star Trek convention? And where were the Vulcan ears?
Chantal Rutter Dros was in fact doing a usual insert for the show, interviewing a South African government official, but the dress was anything but usual. Her appearance was instantly reminiscent where TV viewers have boldly gone before: Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek The Next Generation.
In a sense Chantal Rutter Dros does represent the next generation of the venerable and award-winning South African magazine show, having joined the show a few years ago after Ruda Landman left.
Will Devi Sankaree Govender next be seen in Ferengi garb? (Oh wait. Their females don't wear clothes.)
If anything, Carte Blanche presenters if they choose Star Trek clothing, should actually be more Borg-like in appearance.
You know ... because resistance in futile.
