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Kelvin Timeline all but confirmed

But the look of 09 has nothing to do with it being a new timeline, just a new era in filmic/televisual production. Take the Kelvin itself, visually it has more in common with Pine's Enterprise than Shatner's, but is still prime universe as it was built before the split.

I'd say it has more in common with the NX-01 then the Kelvin Connie.
 
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True, but since we don't know the story yet all we have to go on are the visuals. And so far nearly all the visuals are based on things from the new movies. Even little things like Sarek's costume. They could have based it on his outfit from Journey to Babel or The Search For Spock, but instead it's based on the one from ST09.
Since Vulcan culture is reluctant and slow to change, that is not altogether surprising.

ETA: Also, most of the time we see Sarek in TOS he is acting in official function as ambassador. This may be more casual cloths, or even something more Earth inspired as part of his cultural understanding.
 
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What does a fictional futuristic engineering set look like anyway?
Not brewery? Oh wait, we don't know. I know one commentator/Youtuber who theorized that the tanks shown were deuterium storage.

But, this, obviously, is the future:
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I thought deuterium was for the impulse engines (according to StarryTrekMagazineissue47page11paragraph3subnote-c)
 
I never understood the objections to 09's engineering set :shrug:
The odd thing is, if it had been a decade earlier, I might have objected to the beer plant engineering, but while it's not an ideal solution to finding an epic setting for the bowels of the ship (and was replaced in ST Beyond by CGI) it somehow..just works. I never batted an eye during those scenes. It just made the whole ship seem bigger and spacious and real. The tiny engineering sets in the tv shows always seemed claustrophobic to me.

This was one thing that convinced me I had to change perspective a bit..if I could accept it, and it worked I could let some other things go.

RAMA
 
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The odd thing is, if it had been a decade earlier, I might have objected to the beer plant engineering, but while it's not an ideal solution to finding an epic setting for the bowels of the ship (and was replaced in ST Beyond by CGI) it somehow..just works. I never batted an eye during those scenes. It just made the whole ship seem bigger and spacious and real. The tiny engineering sets in the tv shows always seemed claustrophobic to me.

This was one thing that convinced me I had to change perspective a bit..if I could accept it, and it worked I could let some other things go.

RAMA
I tend to agree. When I'm in the film I'm not thinking "Hey, what's a brewery doing in my Star Trek." I'm thinking "Engineering is huge and looks very dangerous" something that you don't want to mess with. Like, if something goes wrong, it will go catastrophically wrong.
 
Not brewery? Oh wait, we don't know. I know one commentator/Youtuber who theorized that the tanks shown were deuterium storage.

But, this, obviously, is the future:
txTyo42.jpg

They shouldn't bother building a new bridge set either then. These should have been more than adequate:

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I mean, what does a fictional futuristic bridge set look like anyway? Oh wait, we don't know either.
 
I mean, what does a fictional futuristic bridge set look like anyway? Oh wait, we don't know either.

They wanted a big set that would've blown the budget if they had built it. I didn't find the brewery ideal, but it did the job it needed to do at a likely fraction of the cost.
 
True, but since we don't know the story yet all we have to go on are the visuals. And so far nearly all the visuals are based on things from the new movies. Even little things like Sarek's costume. They could have based it on his outfit from Journey to Babel or The Search For Spock, but instead it's based on the one from ST09.
Movies and TV shows made in this decade will have a certain look (art direction-wise) compared to TV shows made in the 1960s -- even when that art direction is showing a future sci-fi setting.

So no -- the reason they didn't base Sarek's wardrobe on how he dressed in Journey to Babel is NOT because they specifically were trying to emulate the Kelvin universe, and has everything to do with Journey to Babel being a 1960s TV show and DSC being a 2017 TV show. A 2017 TV shows art direction and wardrobe will naturally look more like something else made in the 2010 decade than it would look like something made in 1965.
 
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