It's not really detail per se, it's the execution of the detail. The level of detail of the movie-era and TNG+ era ships was higher than TOS, but few people talk about those as garish or overdone. It's the "everything and the kitchen sink" approach that has overtaken. The JJ-prise with all of its tacked on swoops and arcs is representative of today's aesthetic. It has an incoherence or randomness to it.
Interview: ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Production Designer Tamara Deverell
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It's not really detail per se, it's the execution of the detail. The level of detail of the movie-era and TNG+ era ships was higher than TOS, but few people talk about those as garish or overdone. It's the "everything and the kitchen sink" approach that has overtaken. The JJ-prise with all of its tacked on swoops and arcs is representative of today's aesthetic. It has an incoherence or randomness to it.
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As for set design, costume design, etc there was almost zero chance that the showrunners and designers would be able to create an aesthetic that would satisfy the majority of Trek fans.
So they did their own thing.
Take it or leave it, I guess.
As for set design, costume design, etc there was almost zero chance that the showrunners and designers would be able to create an aesthetic that would satisfy the majority of Trek fans.
So they did their own thing.
Take it or leave it, I guess.
ROGUE ONE can get away with replicating the old 70s sets of Star Wars because that film had much more expensive and intricate sets designed for theatrical presentations that's still convincing enough to work for modern audiences. The same can't be said of TOS's sets, which were only meant to be viewed on small TVs with fuzzy reception. Modern audiences today would just laugh and point out how cheap it looks, rather than let themselves be immersed in the story and characters.
Personally, I would have liked an updated look that was still reminiscent of the old show, but I'm not a filmmaker.
That said, I've recently been checking these out. May be the closest thing we'll ever get to a Pike era show. And it's replicating the 60s look!
I'm not sure they even did that.
That's because the Discovery Enterprise exhibits the most restraint, which is wrapped up in its legacy and how delicately they had to tread. Where they felt they had more blue-sky, they felt entitled to gorge on self-indulgence.
To me the most interesting part of this discussion is it explains why the incorporeal Pahvans had a built structure to begin with. They built the "tent thing" first, then decided afterwards that they couldn't use humans, and went with CGI energy beings.
E.G., it was yet another example of poor planning on the part of the showrunners.
Someone really needs to come up with a series bible or something.
True. Supposedly that episode was one of the ones which was added. Which seems a bit odd to me, because the Ship of the Dead stuff with Cornwell and L'Rell was absolutely part of the serialized plot.
Then again, my understanding is they initially planned to kill Cornwell off at the end of Lethe. If she died as originally intended, there would be no real reason to have the scenes in the B plot.
Ah-ahhhhh . . . . . LEAVE IT
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