The aesthetic of the post-Nemesis Trek Universe

[C.E. Evans]

I tend to think that it won't look too different from what we last saw in Nemesis. There'll surely be new stuff, but I expect that it'll be something that can easily be looked at as a glance as TNG-era with the familiar Okudagrams and screen fonts. I do think we'll see different uniforms, but they'll definitely be nods towards previous TNG uniforms with the red for command, gold for ops, etc. color schemes. Possibly the biggest change might be to the Starfleet insignia, and various props like tricorders and phasers. As far as ships, there likely will be several new designs and some previous ones here and there too.

 

[jaime]

I wonder if they will decide to use the gap to bring Trek back into line with modern science fiction - more obvious transhumanism, the use of power armour (see for example the expanse), AI ships, nanotechnology etc.

All of those things are pretty explicitly things Trek is against, with episodes specifically dealing with them, apart from power armour...which is rendered totally unnecessary by other Treknology.

 

[Abi Smith]

I wonder if the Picard show will be impacted by the Orville Effect like season 2 Discovery seems to have.

 

[Danlav05]

I wonder if the Picard show will be impacted by the Orville Effect like season 2 Discovery seems to have.

‘Orville effect?’

 

[jaime]

‘Orville effect?’

‘Oh. People do like colour and stuff. And to laugh. We didn’t know.’

 

[Kor]

I wonder if the Picard show will be impacted by the Orville Effect like season 2 Discovery seems to have.

So far not much looks different about STDsc S2, aside from Pike & Co's Enterprise uniforms.

Kor

 

[jaime]

So far not much looks different about STDsc S2, aside from Pike & Co's Enterprise uniforms.

Kor

I dunno.
Somethings snot quite the same.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I dunno.
Somethings snot quite the same.

The ships have lost that ultra-neon, oversaturated, waxy, early 2000's PS2 graphics look.

 

[Lord Garth]

Imagine if they continued making TNG movies all the way through to 2018 (suspend your disbelief, I know I had to), that's what it would look like. That will be the aesthetic of Post-NEM.

I really think they'll pick up where they left off visually and just extrapolate from there. Especially if John Eaves is involved. If you were thinking it would be a Super-Duper "It's The Future!!!!!" Look, that would be for something that takes place a lot later than the 24th Century.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

I dunno.
Somethings snot quite the same.

It's.... It's... It's green.

 

[Danlav05]

Especially if John Eaves is involved.

Just on imdb, blimey Eaves has done work for everyone! Berman, JJ, Singer/Kurtzman, even Borg Invasion, Renegades and Axawhatsit.

This fills me with confidence.

 

[Phil123]

I really like a great deal of what Eaves has done, but I would like to see them go in a different direction. Just for variety.

 

[thribs]

Eaves is awesome but his Discovery work is rather poor and ugly. I imagine that’s due to other influences I bet.
Hopefully the Picard show is more like the E than Discovery.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Eaves' Discovery work is his post-Nemesis work. The Shenzhou was based on a NEM-era design he did for a fan group years before:

 

[thribs]

That’s part of the issue. They don’t fit in with the era. A ship like the Mawson there would look better in the First Contact era.

 

[Phil123]

Yeah, it makes ship design too homogeneos over the centuries. Get someone new in, like when the D was introduced. I love the D, so new, yet familiar

 

[Tuskin38]

Eaves' Discovery work is his post-Nemesis work. The Shenzhou was based on a NEM-era design he did for a fan group years before:

Eh, maybe.

We've seen the various bits of concept art he did for the Shenzhou and some of them look nothing like that.

 

[Takeru]

Whatever they do I hope it looks nothing like TNG or its movies, I loved TNG, it's my favorite Star Trek but it's 30 years old and if the Picard show extrapolates from that it could easily look a bit dated like The Orville (which has a 90s in HD look).

All of those things are pretty explicitly things Trek is against, with episodes specifically dealing with them, apart from power armour...which is rendered totally unnecessary by other Treknology.

Star Trek is not against AI or nanotechnology. They have nanites on TNG, Voyager's doctor or Janeway had no problems using borg nanoprobes, Data was an AI officer amd him being recognized as a lifeform was the point of Measure of a Man, the doctor even got limited rights as a hologram towards the end of Voyager.
Transhumanism isn't even out of the question, the entire ban on generic manipulations is something DS9 came up with for a Bashir plot disregarding that it was perfectly fine during TNG, a new show could just ignore DS9's ban or simply,declare that the federation started embracing it a decade after Nemesis.

 

[Kor]

... The Orville (which has a 90s in HD look).
...

I believe that's intentional.

Kor

 

[thribs]

Man I can’t wait for the Orville. Probably my most expected show this year.