Discovery in Variety

[Mudd]

 

[RAMA]

There's no pushback, 3 or 4 people are giving their opinion and it doesn't agree with the general perception or reality. I'm fine with that, but I'm going to bring some sense to the proceedings. Its what I do.

RAMA

So do I. If you were to stop short of proclaiming yourself an authority on judging quality production design and merely profess your opinion then this thread would not be teetering on the verge of a flamewar. But if you really want to go there you're gonna get pushback because the art is, objectively speaking, not that good. And it doesn't take an art education to know it. People have been scratching their heads over Discovery's look and feel ever since the USS Discovery teaser and that WTF sensation has continued as more and more of this stuff has been revealed. Glitzy, yes. High-budget, yes. High quality art? No. And it's not just wrapped up in canon purity. Taken out of context of Trek it's just not that good. Mediocre at best.

If you want to prove the error of our ways, explain what it is we're not seeing, but responding with insults won't move the needle, which is why you're effectively commandeering and spamming this thread.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

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Stellar cartography?

 

[Nebusj]

Or take the arch on the D bridge, with all the things arches have symbolized throughout history. It's a gateway to the unknown. Or a rebirth (which TNG was). But there's also the Kafkaesque idea that represents "another way," which is Picard in a nutshell, where the arch links the tactician, firm hand who's literally on his right with the pacifist negotiator who's literally on his left.

This is a great bit of thinking about why the Enterprise D bridge worked aesthetically.

 

[The Librarian]

Stellar cartography?

CIC on the Normandy 2. I'm not sure what the point of posting it was.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

^ That Discovery is taking visual cues from the MASS EFFECT video games? I thought that was already established. The opposite is also true of course.

 

[Michael]

^ Not seeing it, to be honest. At least not in that image upthread.

 

[cultcross]

No, me neither. I'm not even quite sure what comparison is trying to be drawn.

 

[BillJ]

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Futuristic and functional. Like someone actually thought through something for the 21st century, not mimicing a 1960's design for the umpteenth time.

Though I always wanted a Mass Effect TV series, instead of going to the Trek well yet again.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

This is a great bit of thinking about why the Enterprise D bridge worked aesthetically.

Yes, @CorporalClegg's idea is very interesting.

The only other explication of "the arch" on the TNG bridge that I'm familiar with is, as someone pointed out to me once, that Worf's/Yar's station is located on what amounts to a re-imagining of the four-part "railing" of the TOS bridge. That observation doesn't directly indicate thematic elements, although some might be inferred from the contrast between the two bridges.

 

[cosmic mouse]

Looks like they're throwing gang signs.

The Van Buren Boys!

 

[KirkusOveractus]

The Van Buren Boys!

As in President Martin Van Buren?

 

[RAMA]

Futuristic and functional. Like someone actually thought through something for the 21st century, not mimicing a 1960's design for the umpteenth time.

Though I always wanted a Mass Effect TV series, instead of going to the Trek well yet again.

It's interesting how early bridge criticisms said this looked like Mass Effect. Hell, I love the Mass Effect design. Onwards and upwards.

 

[cosmic mouse]

As in President Martin Van Buren?

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[Jackson_Roykirk]

Yes, @CorporalClegg's idea is very interesting.

The only other explication of "the arch" on the TNG bridge that I'm familiar with is, as someone pointed out to me once, that Worf's/Yar's station is located on what amounts to a re-imagining of the four-part "railing" of the TOS bridge. That observation doesn't directly indicate thematic elements, although some might be inferred from the contrast between the two bridges.

Yes. I think the "arch rail" in TNG is definitely meant to reflect the look of the rail around the well of the TOS bridge, not in functionality, but in form.

 

[Arpy]

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East side....west side....space side...

 

[RAMA]

Ted Sullivan's twitter

Look: core A and B

Shenzhou is not dead yet..

 

[Tuskin38]

Also more switches.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Also more blue.

 

[Mudd]

Also more blue.

Yup.