Well. yeah. Haven't you been watching SNW? That tends to be the case with Klingons. In with the new and forget about the old.So, are we forgetting DSC Klingon designs completely?
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Yeah, the Klingons are the most often changed species in all Star Trek. I will say it again -- wake me up when they change the humans.
This isn't the Kelvin timeline.
So is SNW. You'll note which kind of Klingons they feature there.I say that cuz this is clearly a spinoff from DSC.
I knew there was something off about this image!
Actually, I am genuinely surprised they didn't try to insert an arrowhead or three in there somehow.
I have just the rant prepared for when this heinous canon violation is committed.
Vaseline.
SNW forgetting the DSC Klingon redesign is one of the best creative choices it's made.
The poster has to be a parody, surely. Like, it's a piss-take of 1980s teen dramas.
...It's not a parody, is it?
...It's not a parody, is it?
Looks more like something taken from The Vampire Diaries.Dawson Trek. Stardate 90210
Looks more like something taken from The Vampire Diaries.
You have several options to choose from regarding where they drew their inspiration for the poster.
NuTrek is so creatively bankrupt, they even have to copy their promotional material.
^ Red Dwarf had my favourite variant of the "naff promotional shots of actors all slightly off-scale with each other in a big tower, with dramatic red/blue lighting" format:
I'm actually stunlocked by the 90210 SFA poster, every time I think of it my brain clicks like an old mechanical hard drive. It has to be a joke, surely?
Not even saying this in a sneering "Kurtzman Trek sucks, this'll be shit" way; like, it has to be intended as a tongue-in-cheek pastiche of teen dramas of decades gone by, it's way too on-the-nose to be earnest. But then in all the pre-release material so far we've seen absolutely nothing to suggest that the show is going to be a genre parody in that way, so it has to be sincere... but there's just no way you could release that poster unironically, it's such a dead-on mimicry of a genre that mostly exists as a punchline nowadays.
Not even saying this in a sneering "Kurtzman Trek sucks, this'll be shit" way; like, it has to be intended as a tongue-in-cheek pastiche of teen dramas of decades gone by, it's way too on-the-nose to be earnest. But then in all the pre-release material so far we've seen absolutely nothing to suggest that the show is going to be a genre parody in that way, so it has to be sincere... but there's just no way you could release that poster unironically, it's such a dead-on mimicry of a genre that mostly exists as a punchline nowadays.
More of an homage to 'Teen Dramas". And apparently we can't have that!!!
To be fair some of the Legacy ads were garbage in design. 1980s, 1990s and 2000s syndicated and network ad design could be pretty laughable.
So many people who I've never taken seriously just making me take them less seriously.
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Nope, we can't!
Promotional material is so generic anymore. Way too much is read in to it.
It's more that it's so peculiarly, unironically direct in evoking a long-gone genre of television. If the poster is intended as a jovial throwback to 1980s teen melodrama, you'd think there'd be some kind of Star Trek twist to showcase the series' selling point, and demonstrate that this will be a fresh sci-fi-tinged take on an old genre - have them all in the typical pose, but lying on a holodeck grid, or have one of them mid-beam out, or whatever.
But instead, it's literally a bunch of beautiful young people laying on some grass. The only thing that separates it from the decades-old posters it's evoking is the presence of a Klingon, but he's just posed in the same generic way as everyone else. They must have known the bemused reception it'd get.
As I said, leaning into the "complaints" and having fun with it.
Yup.
It's advertising. At this point people are going to complain no matter what and the show itself is actually the only thing that matters not the stupid trailers or posters.
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