None of have retired from acting looking at their IMDb pages. They've all had gigs in the last 5 years outside of Trek.
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If we see the Enteprise D what sort fo updates could we expect???...
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None of have retired from acting looking at their IMDb pages. They've all had gigs in the last 5 years outside of Trek.
If there were to be a flashback scene set aboard the Enterprise-D, I expect the only "updates" would be in the lighting (to match the more cinematic lighting practices of modern television) and to construct the set out of different materials that look better on modern high-resolution television sets. The fundamental design was sufficiently modern even thirty years ago that it doesn't really need an update beyond that.
They won't make massive changes because the D's appearance is purely for nostalgia just like the appearances of the original Connie in Relics and Trials and Tribbleations.
If this was a TNG reboot I'd expect a more modern looking ship but for an "Aww, remember the times" moment they'll keep the original look
If this was a TNG reboot I'd expect a more modern looking ship but for an "Aww, remember the times" moment they'll keep the original look
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I really want to know what a more modern reinterpretation of the Enterprise-D would look like, both inside and outside. Just as long as we don't have John Eaves putting his negative space fetish all over it...
Honestly, as I mentioned before, I think the era of ‘reinterpreting’ past Star Trek is over. I’m of the hope that the producers recognized their mistakes and will not try to go down that road again. Just the fact that Worf isn’t a DSC Klingon makes me think that the Enterprise-D, etc. isn’t going to be reinterpreted for some vague 21st century sci-fi visual aesthetic that nobody really wants anyway.
Despite my wish for a reinterpretation I have to agree.
I'm not convinced the era of reinterpretation is over, but I also don't think a reinterpretation of the Enterprise-D is necessary. It was inevitable that the original series Enterprise would be reinterpreted, because the 1960s ideas of what constituted "the future" are no longer credible to a modern audience. However, the designs used for Next Generation were, to be frank, better at predicting the future than the original series designs. In particular, Mike Okuda's anticipation of the idea of widespread touchscreen computer controls decades before such technology existed in real life lends the Enterprise-D a sense of futurism that still endures 30 years after Next Generation premiered. The Next Generation still looks like the future; the original series does not.
I think that's only because of the showrunner and the head of the art team being old fans.
Plus it's not the first inconsistency we're seen with makeup between the different live action productions. Picard has never used the DSC Andorian design, even in Season 1, but has used the Tellarite design.
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I mean, they were never gonna fundamentally redesign Worf. He's an iconic character and they would no more fundamentally change his makeup than they would change Spock's. "The Klingons" are an idea that already has a lot of variety in designs, not a character; redesigning them is fundamentally different from redesigning a particular character.
Anywho, if I were Alex Kurtzman, I would probably have both DIS-style Klingons and Westmore-style Klingons appearing in my ST shows, just like PIC S1 featured both TOS-style Romulans and TNG-style Romulans. The Augment Virus is a built-in plot device for why some Klingons look so radically different from others if you need one.
Anywho, if I were Alex Kurtzman, I would probably have both DIS-style Klingons and Westmore-style Klingons appearing in my ST shows, just like PIC S1 featured both TOS-style Romulans and TNG-style Romulans. The Augment Virus is a built-in plot device for why some Klingons look so radically different from others if you need one.
I hope that in 20 years the Star Trek showrunners don’t feel the need to ‘reinterpret’ anything, and that they just create something new and original that isn’t a TOS prequel or a TNG reboot.
Only if there is a willingness to buy something new.
I would hope so too. Then again I didn’t think there would ever be a desire to “re-imagine” the original Enterprise. Then we got both the JJ-Prise and the Discoprise.
Like I said, the biggest problem with the TNG sets is that the set construction materials were designed to look like advanced materials on low-def CRT screens, and don't hold up on modern high-def screens. Re-create the look of the sets but use materials that withstand high-def scrutiny, and I don't think it needs an update at all. Yeah, some stuff will still reflect 1980s aesthetics -- the color scheme, mostly -- but things like that are cyclical. The real areas where TOS is outdated are areas where TNG et al still work. TNG especially, since the premise behind having fewer bridge stations and the like was that the automation was greater and fewer crew would be required to run the bridge.
I love reimagined ships. The more the merrier I say.
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