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I don't understand the production design...

And now we don't have LCARS, what is disaster.
here is the clearly updated but relatively faithful starfleet LCARS in picard, all other computer displays are clearly not starfleet, which uhhh makes sense.
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No one asked my opinion on the matter.

However, I also believe that everyone would benefit from being nudists so what do I know?

I think you are probably right. Unless it gets chilly. Also I now have wristwatches as a hobby, and assume those are ok.
 
80s isn't that far behind us and take a look at those clothes. Would you like to wear 80s clothing everyday?

I quite like my light wash Levi’s dad jeans...80s style is back baby!

Ummm - I think you overate the "love" for the mess that was the 1701-D. (I couldn't stand its art deco late 1980ies look from the first shot in "Encpounter At Farpoint" and its interior set design looks like they hired the set designer FROM "The Love Boat" TV series.

I’m not sure I’d describe the design aesthetic of the 1701-D as “Art Deco”. If it is, that is from the 1920s...

...both of which kind of reinforce the point that fashion and design is cyclical. I don’t see anything from the Picard trailers that pulls me out of the the view that “this is future”.

I take the comments of come that the future may mean very different humans if futurist’s predictions come to pass, but portraying it that way affects how we relate to this characters and the overall story theme, at least for me.

For example, I wouldn’t relate to Picard if it had the production aesthetic and choices of something like Johnny Mnemonic.
 
None of those have dark themes. Closest there is seige. VOY did a couple of dark steps, and I hear ENT did. There’s one or two DS9 that are quasi dark...but still with the ‘hero’ nature to prevent it.

Where No Man has Gone Before is about as "grimdark" as Trek has ever gotten.
 
I quite like my light wash Levi’s dad jeans...80s style is back baby!



I’m not sure I’d describe the design aesthetic of the 1701-D as “Art Deco”. If it is, that is from the 1920s...

...both of which kind of reinforce the point that fashion and design is cyclical. I don’t see anything from the Picard trailers that pulls me out of the the view that “this is future”.

I take the comments of come that the future may mean very different humans if futurist’s predictions come to pass, but portraying it that way affects how we relate to this characters and the overall story theme, at least for me.

For example, I wouldn’t relate to Picard if it had the production aesthetic and choices of something like Johnny Mnemonic.

It’s deco but almost nouveau. The refit Connie is decidedly deco.
 
Certain fashion and styling comes and goes, then it comes back almost the same and goes again before coming back again with some minor change. Fashion has a lot of time to come and go, go and come, disappear and reappear before the time Star Trek takes place.

If Enterprise-D looks too "something", it's just the style of that time. I like the interior styling on the D and it looks great on the outside too.
 
You did read the definition?

WNMHGB is about as viscerally and philosophically nihilistic as Star Trek gets. There is sociopathic murder, characters developing godlike powers. Best friends attempting to kill each other, orders to destroy a whole planet to stop a threat of a superpowered man who now looks down on human beings as insects. There is no happy ending here, no moral victory to be enjoyed. Only survival or obliteration. That isn't grimdark?
 
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