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[Rahul]

This is really amazing!
And it's something that bothered me since TNG: Almost everytime TOS showed an alien planets's surface, they tried to really make it look alien.

In most cases that meant "studio set" with the famus styrofoam rocks. But everyime they went outside, and had location shoots, they put some weird alien plastic flowers or vegetation into the scene.

They never did that since then! Whenever TNG, DS9, VOY or ENT had location shoots - they just showed regular Earth outside!

It's GREAT to see Alien vegetation being back in Star Trek!

(Also: This is really clever drecting: The alien plants are in the foreground, and the immediate background. If you look into the actual dept - it's just regular vegetation. But because most of the frames is filled with these "alien" plants - you're brain thinks they're everywhere on this planet! Hell, with modern-day cgi, they might actually fill the background wit more alien plants...)

 

[eschaton]

This is really amazing!
And it's something that bothered me since TNG: Almost everytime TOS showed an alien planets's surface, they tried to really make it look alien.

In most cases that meant "studio set" with the famus styrofoam rocks. But everyime they went outside, and had location shoots, they put some weird alien plastic flowers or vegetation into the scene.

They never did that since then! Whenever TNG, DS9, VOY or ENT had location shoots - they just showed regular Earth outside!

It's GREAT to see Alien vegetation being back in Star Trek!

(Also: This is really clever drecting: The alien plants are in the foreground, and the immediate background. If you look into the actual dept - it's just regular vegetation. But because most of the frames is filled with these "alien" plants - you're brain thinks they're everywhere on this planet! Hell, with modern-day cgi, they might actually fill the background wit more alien plants...)

I recognize a good deal of those "alien" plants - they're real, normal earth plants. They just look alien to us because they're exotics you don't see outside much because they can't overwinter.

Sort of similar to how TNG would often have fruit baskets with starfruit and horned melon.

 

[Tuskin38]

Saru's sister is wearing the same robe's their Father was wearing in the Short Trek.

 

[DaveyNY]

Saru's sister is wearing the same robe's their Father was wearing in the Short Trek.

Daddys Dinner?

 

[XCV330]

Saru's sister is wearing the same robe's their Father was wearing in the Short Trek.

it's a long drive to Forever No Older Than 21

 

[DaveyNY]

it's a long drive to Forever No Older Than 21

OOOooooo...
Life clocks are a lie!
... Carousel is a lie!
THERE IS NO RENEWAL!

 

[Rahul]

I recognize a good deal of those "alien" plants - they're real, normal earth plants. They just look alien to us because they're exotics you don't see outside much because they can't overwinter.

Sort of similar to how TNG would often have fruit baskets with starfruit and horned melon.

Interesting!

I'm wondering weather they used actual plants for that, or if they bought rubber replicas. It's easier to buy exotic fruits, I guess. But would be pretty clever to buy large amounts of exotic looking "fake"-plants, that you can then re-color and put on multiple sets.

 

[DaveyNY]

The red ones look kinda like Hawaiian Amaryllis...

I also see Yellow and Red Guzmanias...

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

I recognize a good deal of those "alien" plants - they're real, normal earth plants.

An ancient race of sentient Venus Flytrap aliens called "The Audreys" spread their genetic material across the galaxy billions of years ago, helping to guide the evolution of plants on multiple worlds, resulting in plants looking pretty much similar on all of those worlds.

 

[Kor]

The episode title hearkens (harks?) back to Bradbury. I wonder if there will be thematic similarities.

Kor

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

The episode title hearkens (harks?) back to Bradbury. I wonder if there will be thematic similarities.

Kor

They go back in time, Tilly steps on a butterfly, and when they return everything looks like TOS technology.

 

[Cyrus]

The red ones look kinda like Hawaiian Amaryllis...

They have actually named the red flowers:
https://twitter.com/extspace/status/1097630798771937280

 

[Tim Thomason]

Does SF do protectorates?

One mention of Federation protectorates: Star Trek Insurrection with the Evora, a civilization that just achieved Warp status a year prior. The Federation made them a protectorate explicitly in the aftermath of the Dominion War. Maybe Kaminar will be made a protectorate in the aftermath of the Klingon War.

I also found that Klingons had protectorates too, per Enterprise.