I misspoke and meant "Look around in it." Apologies for the false information.
I love the look of it.
Something else I like:
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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I love the look of it.
Something else I like:
It’s not the budget, it’s what you do with it that counts. Budget limitations can sometimes lead to more creative storytelling because the great special effects can’t be relied on.
But enough about the ENT-D bridgeA monotone, over lit, misshapen lid.
The first thing I would do with a smaller budget would not be Star Trek. Not that I have anything against Paramount's Star Trek but consider.
Costumes, Sets, Aliens Graphics that would pass for Star Trek. There goes half your budget.
Writers. Saga skilled actors, locations, Travel, insurance and logging and there is the other half of your budget.
Then since you're still spending a lot of money, you are going to need a return investors money. You better have promotion plans and motivate the masses to come see your creation like if they must see one movie, tour's is the one.
(District 9. $30 million budget returning $200 million) I swear, $25 million of that had to go into promotional ads because I've seen better fan films.
So I agree 99% It's what you do with it
Keep Thinking.
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You've obviously never been to the neutral zone.
Bwaaaahahahahahahahahaa! Wait... were you serious?
I was about 35 when I first posted in The Neutral Zone. I now look 140.
'Nuff said....
'Nuff said....
Where is this Neutral Zone I have heard about here? I have never found a section called that.
I haven't been serious since 1978. lesson learned.
I could never understand how people raved about that movie. It was like they crossed Alien Nation with an afterschool special.
I actually really liked DISTRICT 9.
Netflix' 'Lost in Space' is a better Star Trek series than DIS or PIC.
The way it glorifies space exploration, the technology being a mix between plausible future tech and complete fantasy, the NASA aesthetics, the interesting alien robots. Also that's an adventure series - with science heroes stuck in impossible situations. Only very rarely guns are being drawn or used or space battles take place. That it is indeed a show for the whole family - talking to adults via it's story & themes & dialogue, not by showing gore and bloody decapitations every week. The way the heroes are absolutely, 100% astronauts doing astronaut things, despite being also caught up in space wars and crime thrillers.
And just the pure look of it - the shiny spaceships, space suits, vehicles, props...
Where it suffered was that obviously no one of the family was ever going to die, making the stakes often feel a bit hollow, and the limited FTL technology made the scope feel small, and many of the dramatic situations felt repeated - someone stuck somewhere in a hostile environment.
But still - if a new Trek series looks for any inspiration - SNW is amazing, but feels like a very specific reboot of a specific show (TOS/2009 movie), that cannot be repeated again.
Whereas 'Lost in Space' offers a pretty good "modern" vision of a future that a new Trek series could & should well get inspired by for tone and style.
The way it glorifies space exploration, the technology being a mix between plausible future tech and complete fantasy, the NASA aesthetics, the interesting alien robots. Also that's an adventure series - with science heroes stuck in impossible situations. Only very rarely guns are being drawn or used or space battles take place. That it is indeed a show for the whole family - talking to adults via it's story & themes & dialogue, not by showing gore and bloody decapitations every week. The way the heroes are absolutely, 100% astronauts doing astronaut things, despite being also caught up in space wars and crime thrillers.
And just the pure look of it - the shiny spaceships, space suits, vehicles, props...
Where it suffered was that obviously no one of the family was ever going to die, making the stakes often feel a bit hollow, and the limited FTL technology made the scope feel small, and many of the dramatic situations felt repeated - someone stuck somewhere in a hostile environment.
But still - if a new Trek series looks for any inspiration - SNW is amazing, but feels like a very specific reboot of a specific show (TOS/2009 movie), that cannot be repeated again.
Whereas 'Lost in Space' offers a pretty good "modern" vision of a future that a new Trek series could & should well get inspired by for tone and style.
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I feel like the Culture series of novels by Iain M. Banks is actually a great update of the Star Trek ethos. It's still a nigh-utopian, multiracial civilization, where the "adventure" stories come from mucking around on the frontiers (their version of Starfleet is called "special circumstances). But it's more explicit with politics, being basically anarcho-socialist, and it actually embraces posthumanism, with super-advanced benevolent AIs running most everything important (ships are all self-aware, for example), leaving biological humanoids to laze around, do drugs, or perform various hobbies unless they're really driven for public service.
I will come in second to none in my love for Netflix LiS. I'm a little on the fence about calling it Star Trek. Although re-reading your post I'm thinking about getting off of that fence. It certainly was trying to appeal to a wider audience than, say, Disco.
And until Strange New Worlds came along it was the PRETTIEST space ship show on television. Unlike SNW the LiS ships looked pretty on the outside as well. (Not every inch of you ship has to be greebled!) SNW wins on spacesuits.
While I will admit that there are times when there is a certain thrill knowing that I don't KNOW who is going to make it through a show, did we ever feel that Star Trek or even TNG had "stakes" (here meaning a character's death)? Yar's death didn't feel like "stakes". It felt like someone leaving the show and unlike in 1966 she wouldn't just disappear. DS9 might have felt a little more so, but that didn't have to do with death as much as what could happen to characters and how they would deal with it. And Lost in Space had that by the Chariot-load.
When stuff happened in the first season (Robot) we had to stop watching for a little while. Ask my kids about "stakes".
COVID did bad things to Lost in Space. You could tell that there was stuff they needed to have that they just didn't get. Mostly with Will.
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