Lucsly and Dulmur are predestined to have their work cut out for them.
Strange New Worlds set design?
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I think the SNW sets owe a lot to the JJ Abrams movies' sets.
They're essentially doing the same thing - updating the TOS sets - and doing it in very, very similar ways.
I think SNW is slightly more accurate & better, with a stronger mid-century design aesthetic - but IMO they are similar enough that you could pretend they belong to the same ship/the same show.
They're essentially doing the same thing - updating the TOS sets - and doing it in very, very similar ways.
I think SNW is slightly more accurate & better, with a stronger mid-century design aesthetic - but IMO they are similar enough that you could pretend they belong to the same ship/the same show.
Really? I'm not seeing that much of a similarity.
One that has no one associated with the original involved. More than anything, that makes it its own thing to me.
Mileage may vary.
"We seem to be made to suffer; it's our lot in life."
They definitely don't look the same, but I could see them as different rooms in the same show. They've both got lots of strip lighting and shiny floors to reflect it, and lots of extra detail in the consoles that's only there to be detail rather than to serve any obvious purpose.
I feel like the SNW bridge wouldn't have been how it is without the Kelvin bridge as an ancestor.
The bridge is the biggest difference. Which I chalk mostly up to the fact that the bridge set was built for Discovery season 2, and therefore follows more the brutalistic Discovery design language.
Every set created for specifically SNW - corridors, quarters, transporter room, medical - looks much closer to the Kelvin Design.
There was even a great JJ version "inspired" corridor concept for SNW:
The SNW Enterprise bridge is actually a completely different set than the Enterprise bridge seen in Disco S2. Indeed, it's not even housed in the same studio.
I actually like the DSC season two version better.
Uh huh - most of the originals involved are in their 80s or 90s (if still living) - sorry but that's a somewhat ridiculous take as (unlike the two main showrunners for TNG and the majority of it's writers - yet somehow it's in teh same 'Universe') many in the SNWproduction staff at least WATCHED TOS first run when they were children or when it was run daily in syndication.
There’s nothing about the design philosophy of Discovery that aligns with brutalism.
It is my take. No one is forcing it on you.
They took it apart and moved it, that's all. They built a physical viewscreen and eliminated the walkaround corridor.
errrm this is absolutely the same set, just minimally tweaked.
It's best to know what words mean before you start throwing them around. There's nothing about any Starfleet vessel ever depicted on screen that could be described as brutalist.
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What would you call this design language?
Seriously, look up Brutalism. Read about what it is and what the intent of it is. You’re stumbling around in the dark here.
A Borg Cube is probably the closest Star Trek comes to Brutalism.
See how you didn't after the question at all.
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