Season 5 Teaser Trailer

[Lord Garth]

Again, it's the simplest idea that when it's the newest it takes the most criticism. If old Trek did it, then it's water under the bridge. New Trek does it they should have learned their lesson, the bastards.

"Learning their lesson." I think sometimes they think I agree with them that there was a lesson to be learned. I don't. But I'm biased about dark lighting. I acted in haunted houses on two different years and half my wardrobe during my late-teens and most of my 20s came from Hot Topic. So there you go. I don't speak the same language as them.

"Bright lights! Primary colors! It's Star Trek!" No. It's just a version of it. And it's all trivial. I care about the message underneath and the actual story being told.

TOS was at least funky with the color. The same can't be said for TNG, SNW, or the Kelvin Films.

 

[F. King Daniel]

And how quickly everyone seems to have forgotten their complaints about the excessive brightness and subsequent lens flares in the Abrams movies.

2009: It's too bright!!
2023: It's too dark!!!

Anything you try and do to appease a fandom will only get a "No, not like that!" reaction.

 

[Tuskin38]

I think SNW got it right, at least on the Enterprise

 

[Tosk]

Anything you try and do to appease a fandom will only get a "No, not like that!" reaction.

Because "fandom" is not one person.

 

[Lord Garth]

Regardless of my preferences, whenever I watch a Star Trek show, I feel like I'm watching a spaceship (or space station in DS9's case)... except for TNG as a TV Series.

TNG feels like an '80s office paired with an '80s living room where you see outer space if you look outside the windows. Without the starfield, it doesn't feel like it's a spaceship. I'm in the middle of watching TMP right now, and it feels like a spaceship whether I see any starfield or not. The Movies are the standards that the new TV series should be aspiring to with the budgets they have. The movies are the look they should be emulating. Not TNG on TV. So I'm glad they're doing that.

PIC looking like a cross between DSC and the TNG Movies is a good thing, DSC forging its own path is a good thing (especially where it's set now), and SNW walking the tightrope it is between the DSC/PIC style and the TOS style is to be commended. What SNW is doing isn't easy, but they're pulling it off.

 

[fireproof78]

Bright lights! Primary colors! It's Star Trek!" No. It's just a version of it. And it's all trivial. I care about the message underneath and the actual story being told.

I couldn't agree more. Superficial design language matters little if the message is lacking.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

TOS was at least funky with the color. The same can't be said for TNG, SNW, or the Kelvin Films.

And if you owned a color television set when it was originally broadcast, your eyes were in for a treat, and your budget-busting purchase was justified.

"The Cage" was lit just right. And it had a lot of grey. I like "The Cage" aesthetic. But I like the colors that followed, too.

But I digress. It looks like Picard and Company are working the night shift in space, waiting for day shift to show up and turn up the lights to get ready for a really busy day.

 

[Lord Garth]

But I digress. It looks like Picard and Company are working the night shift in space, waiting for day shift to show up and turn up the lights to get ready for a really busy day.

Strange New Worlds is the morning shift.
Lower Decks is the mid shift. Overlaps with the morning and evening shifts.
Prodigy is the after-school shift where they have all the minors.
Discovery is the evening shift. (That's my favorite type of shift, BTW!)
Picard is the overnight shift, a.k.a. the graveyard shift; because that's where Picard himself (and TNG) came back from.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

It's like everyone's forgotten the TNG movies. The Enterprise D had its lights off for the entirety of Generations, the Enterprise E was on emergency lighting for much of First Contact, and the fact that Remans can only exist in darkness was a plot point in Nemesis.

And how quickly everyone seems to have forgotten their complaints about the excessive brightness and subsequent lens flares in the Abrams movies.

I think everyone has just forgotten about the Abrams movies

TNG battle bridge was dark too. I think we should have the best of both worlds . Light of regular duty (normal light not super bright E-D bridge) and dark during red alert.

 

[fireproof78]

Kelvin films are still my preferred Trek after TOS.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Kelvin films are still my preferred Trek after TOS.

I thought that would have been Disco.

 

[fireproof78]

I thought that would have been Disco.

Nope.

 

[Quantum21]

The game is afoot! This looks fun. Sign me up.

 

[Kor]

I'm somewhat intrigued by the alien Rubik's cube.

Kor

 

[Quantum21]

I'm somewhat intrigued by the alien Rubik's cube.

Kor

Maybe offering a series of clues. This seems like a fun "Quest" plot. I like those.

 

[Tuskin38]

As long as the cube isn't something that's going to wipe out the entire galaxy.

But the fact there's a race for it probably means it's something dangerous.

 

[F. King Daniel]

As long as the cube isn't something that's going to wipe out the entire galaxy.

But the fact there's a race for it probably means it's something dangerous.

My first thought was that unmade Into Oblivion story - an artefact with godlike power, causing a galactic scramble to harness that power.

And looking at the trailer, it's unlocked by a slide puzzle