The key is that by TOS era they don't need animated displays, as the computer is doing most stuff. All they need to worry about is high-level control.
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Yes, let's please not do that.
It should look like the Ring Ship!
Why won't they give us the Daedalus class? WHY???!!!!
Are we effective finished with the latest from OTIY?
I only brought up the animated displays as just one example. There’s a multitude of other factors, but since others are tired of the “NX-01 looks too advanced” talk I’ll just stop.
Point is, the episodes that featured the 60s sets were meant as tributes to the old show and to have fun seeing our modern casts playing around those sets. They wouldn’t work as a full on series today, especially when trying to draw in new fans that aren’t as lenient as old fans. I think SNW made the correct choice overall.
My only disagreement in terms of aesthetics is having the show formatted in 2.39 aspect ratio as it doesn’t make sense to use that frame on a TV format when they’re shaped for 1.78 . However, that’s not a gripe exclusive to SNW, it seems to be an industry thing.
Back on topic, I'm loving that the rear room of the STIII bird of prey bridge randomly has the Photon torpedo hatch in it, I'm guessing it was built over that STII set (I thought it was just the Merchantman, but I guess it was both?)
The TNG Vor'cha and Romulan bridges show how small and cramped the sets were. Shout out the Romulan conference room chairs, seemingly made of cardboard.
The TNG Vor'cha and Romulan bridges show how small and cramped the sets were. Shout out the Romulan conference room chairs, seemingly made of cardboard.
Oh yes! I somehow forgot that, but at one time I was very much aware of it.
Jorg spotted Kovich/Daniels among the group who greet Kirk on the Enterprise-J, along with a Xindi, tying directly into "Azati Prime" and thus confirming the E-J location.
Amazing!
Holy shit - Kovich was there?!?
And the Big-J confirmed. Damn - there was a lot packed into this little vid. People still finding pieces of things with relatively ground-breaking in-universe significance.
I wonder if Yor's seemingly random introduction back in DSC was a part of this plan all along. Talk about playing the long game. I'm likely reading too much into this, but I honestly never thought they were capable of this level of advanced planning.
And the Big-J confirmed. Damn - there was a lot packed into this little vid. People still finding pieces of things with relatively ground-breaking in-universe significance.
I wonder if Yor's seemingly random introduction back in DSC was a part of this plan all along. Talk about playing the long game. I'm likely reading too much into this, but I honestly never thought they were capable of this level of advanced planning.
I don't understand the significance of all this.
I expect it's more fans connecting dots than it was any kind of forward planning. Discovery and Picard haven't been working together to set up a short YouTube video by OTOY.
Yeah, that's why I postulated that I'm likely reading too much into these connections. I do that sometimes. Probably why I was so disappointed with NuBSG's ending. 
The folks at OTOY probably had a list of all these random, deep-cut, seemingly minor things, as if they were in there all along for a purpose and somehow managed to string them together into a cohesive narrative. Either way you cut it, it was brilliantly done, and really feels like it works seamlessly. They really did their homework to make this thing happen.
The folks at OTOY probably had a list of all these random, deep-cut, seemingly minor things, as if they were in there all along for a purpose and somehow managed to string them together into a cohesive narrative. Either way you cut it, it was brilliantly done, and really feels like it works seamlessly. They really did their homework to make this thing happen.
Yeah, this is the kind of thing the Trek novels have been doing for ages. The shows drop in little details that seem interesting at that moment, and if you're interested in making a new story that builds on that instead of something more disconnected and episodic (the way mainline Trek historically has been), you'll have plenty of details you can pull up. And given that this is all being done trailer-style, very impressionistic, it's probably not hard to drop in new ideas and sequences to expand in different directions. The story in this short probably came about after PIC season 3 revealed Starfleet's Zombie Avengers program,* but it's incorporating aspects from their earlier storyline(s), specifically the adaptation of Colt's trip to the future in the comics.
Back on the A/V Club, someone called it "plot jazz" when it was done on DS9. They just had a lot of stuff going on, and had a great writing team who could craft long-term storylines that seemed pre-planned even though they were working as they went (and now that we've seen more about the early days of Babylon 5, for instance, we know "pre-planning" isn't always entirely what it's advertised as).
*Speaking of, I think the actual use of the Starfleet Zombie Avengers being to let two people have the personal goodbye that fate denied them is a lot better than any kick-ass, epic, Kirk-versus-everyone crossover event, and for nothing else, that zig instead of a zag makes this short remarkable and, hopefully, precedent-setting.
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