Los Angeles in the present, near future, far future

[Skywalker]

Ugh, yet another example of how Kurtzman is destroying Gene's utopian vision!

 

[Ixtl]

It might be hard to edit out of live footage as well.

You’d think that if Disney+ like can employ near-photorealistic CGI backgrounds and environments for stuff like The Book of Boba Fett that Paramount Whatever would be able to spring for a similar amount of verisimilitude in their product.

 

[Tuskin38]

You’d think that if Disney+ like can employ near-photorealistic CGI backgrounds and environments for stuff like The Book of Boba Fett that Paramount Whatever would be able to spring for a similar amount of verisimilitude in their product.

Easier and cheaper to use real footage and add new models than do it from scratch.
I doubt these shows have a budget anywhere close to the Star Wars shows

 

[Sci]

You’d think that if Disney+ like can employ near-photorealistic CGI backgrounds and environments for stuff like The Book of Boba Fett that Paramount Whatever would be able to spring for a similar amount of verisimilitude in their product.

Alas, budgets have limits and producers have to make choices about which elements to prioritize spending money on.

 

[coryjosb]

I'd rather they just use real footage than create a full digital CGI LA for the purposes of a few establishing shots lol.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

World War 3 begins in 2026 according to Memory Alpha

Yeah, I....think they are probably gonna ignore that.

A world war that lasts 27 years? Not gonna happen.

A nuclear war certainly couldn't last that long, and a conventional world war probably wouldn't either.

A "cold war" buildup lasting 3 decades? Sure, I'll buy it. The ECON has to come from somewhere, after all. But the actual war? No way.

Besides, the Ares Mars launches begin in the 2030's (VOY "One Small Step") and it's almost impossible that they'd do so if a world war was raging.

 

[dupersuper]

Yeah, I....think they are probably gonna ignore that.

A world war that lasts 27 years? Not gonna happen.

A nuclear war certainly couldn't last that long, and a conventional world war probably wouldn't either.

A "cold war" buildup lasting that long? Sure, I'll buy it. The ECON has to come from somewhere, after all. But the actual war? No way.

Besides, the Ares Mars launches begin in the 2030's (VOY "One Small Step") and it's almost impossible that they'd do so if a world war was raging.

Yeah: I'm ok with 2153 - 2162/3 with just the one limited nuclear exchange in there somewhere.

 

[USS Excelsior]

We could also get to see Data in L.A. if they find an excuse to dig up Datas head from that cavern and turn it on for some purpose and put it back when they're finished.

 

[Paul Weaver]

find an excuse to dig up Datas head from that cavern

That was a cavern in San Francisco

Would have been fun if they had gone to SF, and digitally inserted in the background was Dax walking around

 

[NCC-73515]

Markridge Industrial was Wilshire Grand (where Seven and Raffi were scanning for signals), right?

 

[NCC-73515]

The watcher is here:

Anyone know where this is? The curved lines could be train tracks near Union Station, but the rest doesn't quite match...

Griffith park with the observatory and the Hollywood sign

The hospital

Wilshire Grand

And beautiful downtown

 

[GeekFilter]

It might be hard to edit out of live footage as well.

It's actually added into some of the footage to give it an "LA Feel" and I'd bet all of the LA shots have had an orangish/golden hour tint added because it perpetually likes like 45 min before sunset wherever and whenever they are. And surprising to no no one who actually lives here, even if there were no industrial chemicals in the air LA would still have haze. There's an atmospheric inversion layer that traps smoke, fog and dust (we have a LOT of dust) . In 1542 Spanish sailors landed on the coast (San Pedro or Santa Monica) the air pollution was so bad that the crew named the area “Bay of the Smokes”.