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Discoprise won't have TOS "cardboard sets"
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I don't think anyone wanted the exact same sets from TOS. I have said this a dozen times but the sets could have resembled TOS with more texture and better quality. St:ENT did this a bit for in a mirror darkly. The sets were not exact. They were close but if one looks closely they changed things up a bit to look more polished. I wanted something better than IAMD but not so far off the beaten path. The color palette doesn't match, dimensions don't match and the exterior is completely off. They didn't try hard enough and really wanted to make Discovery their own thing. Expect them to validate their version of the TOS era into the Picard Show. Thereby making all the series even more convoluted in it's visual style.
I wouldn't mind a near-exact copy of the Kelvinverse Enterprise sets - those suckers were awesome.
If STDsc truly wanted to be futuristic and extrapolate from current cutting-edge ideas, instead of just regurgitating past decades' concepts of futurism, then there wouldn't even be a ship with a biological crew at all. Starfleet Command would use "mind uploading" to create virtual software astronauts as part of an automated long-range probe's computer system. I'm sure that would be an interesting show.
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It's funny though how opinion has generally changed towards the Abrams movies, in many ways. At first I heard over and over about how the Enterprise set was too busy, to bright and OMG it's got a window.
It seems like the next to last thing often looks a little better once it gets that status handed to it by the next new thing that must be disliked. Just like all the people who forgot to keep hating ENT over the years. Discovery will get its time.
"I don't know about all these bright colors on Star Trek: M31.. can't we just have a darker bridge like Discovery? Now THAT was a good looking bridge."
I'd love to have a Star Trek series set in Andromeda.
At some point, and not that far away, we'll know so much about the makeup of our local corner of the galaxy that Prime is going more steampunk than sci-fi, if it isn't already (warppunk? sporepunk?).
Moving to another galaxy in lieu of a reboot might help. Say, some terrible calamity befalls the Milky Way. The UFP manages to sent out a huge sleeper ship to colonize a galaxy where humanoids aren't the rule. It could work. I think there was an idea proposed like that at one point, seriously. I suspect it remains a backburner option.
I still think it’s too busy and too bright. But I don’t have much reason to mention it because those movies are now so old.
Human nature - the grass is always greener two fields over....
Yep. Coolest movie Enterprise sets ever.
What, they're not already douchy enough?
They absolutely nailed the captain's chair when updating it.
People look positively back at George W. Bush(!) now, and see, despite the horrible shit he has done, he was at least a decent human being.
The JJprise bridge was never the best. The bridge window is and remains stupid, the other big problems being all the lights shining directly at everyone's faces and the camera to get this overabundance of lense flares. But generally speaking, visually, those movies were always pretty much on top.
There are people that hate the JJprise bridge design. But they have always been the minority. Even amongst people that don't like the JJ- Abrams Trek movies, the majority concensus is that they are amazingly produced. The problems of those films was never the visuals - yes, there were issues, like people not liking the JJprise and a lot of other stuff - but overall, the LOOK of those films was always lauded as being pretty acurate to TOS.
It was always the content of those movies that was controversial. And you find the very same criticism of that movies still around - it's just not immediate anymore, as these movies aren't representative of the current state of the Trek universe anymore.
right from the get go people called the star trek 09 bridge an apple store. it was a common refrain which i never got. still don't get. apple stores are all right angles and the kelvin timeline bridge is basically the opposite.
at least they uninstalled those blinding lights for star trek beyond (then blew the set up).
I think you might be right.
