Where did all the future tech come from?

[Charles Phipps]

The Temporal Cold War screwed up the timeline and changed the aesthetics.

 

[Noname Given]

Considering the nature of economics without the necessity for money, I would question any use of the word 'contract' from contemporary contexts.

Again, this is the TOS era of Star Trek - a Monied economy exists (Federation credits).

 

[Mirror Mirror]

The Temporal Cold War screwed up the timeline and changed the aesthetics.

Nah that was FCT. If ya think of it, all the changes can be explained by contact in FCT and the fact its no longer the 1960's

 

[Charles Phipps]

Again, this is the TOS era of Star Trek - a Monied economy exists (Federation credits).

I wonder why no one takes Jake Sisko's Replicator Credits in the Quadrant. You'd think "numbers which turn into goods" is the very definition of currency.

Oh right, because it's not well thought out.

 

[lawman]

When the inmates came onboard the Discovery, it was mention in dialog, ''Why a new starship doing this far from the front lines?'' Then later when they were in the corridor, it was mention in dialog, "This is a old Crossfield class science vessel.''
If you listen to the dialog, ''We been working on this for 12 years. The the war broke out and got drafted, then divided into 2 thems. They couldn't have built a new starship in less in 6 months. So both the Discovery and Glenn would had been already built starships that went to the shipyard as soon war started.

I literally don't understand what you're trying to say here, because the stuff you have in quotation marks was not actual dialogue from the episode.

 

[Anders]

The transporter device works faster too. It's supposed to look like this but the uniforms don't match up either. Will the enterprise bridge look like this when they encounter it?

Would be interesting if the meet up with the Enterprise, to see how they show it.

 

[Anders]

I actually felt Discovery has a nice blend of TOS and what we consider futuristic. The transporter even has the slider thing, it's on a touch screen but it was a nice touch.

That's true.

 

[Timo]

Trek has always made sure to have the transporter sliders. In TNG, they were on a flat "touch" screen, too - they were just faked in, while in DSC they apparently use a real touch screen.

Actual TOS-specific nods, apart from the designs of the handguns, communicators and tricorders, and certain set elements such as the shuttlebay alcoves, so far include the square data disks which in the 24th century spinoff shows become smaller rods or slips. I'm sure we're going to get more soon enough.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Mirror Mirror]

Would be interesting if the meet up with the Enterprise, to see how they show it.

Yeah, I would love to see how they redesign it.

 

[Kor]

I've said it before that they could have easily gone with 'retro-futuristic' aesthetics for the tech and design if they wanted. Stylized, but still futuristic.

Something like the interior of this concept car;

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Looks futuristic, but retro at the same time.

Personally, I would have loved to see retro-futuristic designs like this done with modern CG renderings and sfx;

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Would have made the show stand out as different compared to the generic sci-fi look it went with.

Hear, hear.

This is my absolute favorite type of visual design, and it's the only kind of look that I enjoy in science fiction.

Kor

 

[marsh8472]

If the writers wanted to make the technology all fancy and change the culture, it would have been more believable to have this series take place in the 25th century. It would have also allowed them to bring guest stars from every series into the mix. What a shame

 

[Sir Stewart Wallace]

If the writers wanted to make the technology all fancy and change the culture, it would have been more believable to have this series take place in the 25th century. It would have also allowed them to bring guest stars from every series into the mix. What a shame

I don't agree with you in principle--if there's a good story to tell in the 23rd century, I don't really care about aesthetics. But Discovery does not seem to be a story that needs to be set in the 23rd century. It just is. I think it would have worked much better as a 25th century show. There's still a lot of unexplored galaxy left...

 

[Awesome Possum]

Honestly the franchise needs to ignore the TNG era completely, it was done to death. I don’t really care that the technology is different because I watch Star Trek for stories and characters, not obsessing with trivial details like the tech and timeline.

 

[Gepard]

NX-01 Enterprise had a great bridge set with buttons that managed to look modern, yet still true to TOS. There was no reason for them to go full JJ Reboot with the Disocvery tech, aside from the CBS President wanting it.

I still remember all the screeching about how the NX-01 looked far too advanced to predate TOS, and how it looked post-TMP. Same as the complaints about DSC. Funny we're at the point where ENT is held up as an example done right.

 

[Mirror Mirror]

I still remember all the screeching about how the NX-01 looked far too advanced to predate TOS, and how it looked post-TMP. Same as the complaints about DSC. Funny we're at the point where ENT is held up as an example done right.

Same thing happen with Kelvin movies as well. Folks I have seen say some vile thing s about them, now hold them up as the way to "correctly" update the look

 

[Charles Phipps]

My pitch:

It's 100 years in the future of ST:V and it's now the Third Generation (or is it the 4th Generation?). The Klingon Empire has collapsed and the Federation hasn't been doing much since the Dominion War as it became a conservative and more cautious government that didn't want to spread out because of Borg and other matters. T'Kuvma wants to rebuild the Klingon Empire of old as he says and take the fight to the Federation for perceived past wrongs. We have the Federation explore places touched in the past long ago and also a general sense of unhappiness w/ the UFP as they were supposed to be a bastion of good spreading out but they became just another government.

Just a few changes but interesting ones I think.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Seriously, though, the Xindi attack might have greatly advanced this era of technology.

 

[Mirror Mirror]

Seriously, though, the Xindi attack might have greatly advanced this era of technology.

Its the world that has advanced. I mean people seem to love Balance of Terror, but the real world totally kills its big revel. In setting, if you want to trace changes back, it has to be FCT. They polluted the entire timestream. Gave folks ideas of organizations, ship styles, logos and so on. Ent just kind of followed that thought train.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Seriously, though, the Xindi attack might have greatly advanced this era of technology.

Its the world that has advanced. I mean people seem to love Balance of Terror, but the real world totally kills its big revel. In setting, if you want to trace changes back, it has to be FCT. They polluted the entire timestream. Gave folks ideas of organizations, ship styles, logos and so on. Ent just kind of followed that thought train.

Guys, there were aliens and Nazis in the White House. And I'm not talking about real-life 2017.

The microcomputer revolution was never supposed to happen according to Janeway in "Future's End", about a 29th century ship crash in on Earth in the 1960's.

Quark, Rom and Nog crashed in Area 51. Chekov left a Klingon phaser in 1986. The Borg attacked 2053. Enterprise NX-01 was supposed to be destroyed in 2151 (seriously, go back and watch "Cold Front")

Timeline's fked.

 

[Amaris]

I noticed that tech technology shown in the Star Trek Discovery appears vastly superior to the technology shown in the original series. Like the interfaces and communication devices are holographic projections, environmental suits have fancy displays in them, warp drives appear faster, shuttles look better, consoles look like post TNG consoles. How did all of this happen? I suspect it had something to do with the temporal cold war and the future sharing technology with the past or perhaps Q later takes their technology away because the Q thinks humanity is advancing too quickly?

From the future. Roughly 50 years in the future.