Like it says! The third new Trek series in as many years returns us to familiar-ish territory with a shiny-ish new crew and a shiny-ish new ship primed for a series of crazy and potentially litigious adventures.
I think it's safe to assume that the animation style will not lend itself to a variety of consistency and continuity errors - misshapen phasers, stuff not to scale, etc. But still, in many ways this show will plug a hole in the canon of post-TNG-era Star Trek that people have been aching to fill. Will the tech be as interesting or canon-fitting as the other two series in this production era? Or will the interesting choice of placing it one year after Nemesis be fertile ground to explore, especially given that the assorted flashbacks in Season One of "Picard" start around a year later when the latter is promoted off of the Enterprise-E?
Me, I'm hoping to see some familiar things again.
- Set design for one - the bright lights of the USS Cerritos are very Enterprise-D, even if the cool color palette harkens to Voyager and most ships of the era that aren't the -D or -E.
- The TNG phasers are there, though I dunno if their lack of curviness was a deliberate choice compared to the ones we got in VOY and the later TNG movies.
- The ship herself has already been discussed a lot from the trailer thread, but I'm very comfy seeing that the Galaxy-class saucer aesthetic didn't die with that class being the only large example of the saucer, at least. If the scale is correct, the saucer is likely larger than a GCS, which is great and a little off-putting at the same time. On one hand, the animation medium may allow for the absolutely huge volume of the ship to be visualized better - swimming pools, whole parks, a full size hockey rink next to the basketball court, etc. But on the other, if such things show up it would be incongruous with the "look" of the era previously visualized with TV-sized practical sets and the occasional reference to the dolphin habitat.
- The bridge. Is square...ish? But all the usual TNG stations are there and familiar enough to make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. But there's actually enough space between the conn and ops stations to allow everyone in the command chairs a decent view out the window! But they're missing two science stations off the back wall. Indicative of the ship's mission?
- The shuttles look derivative of the Voyager version of the TNG version, with angled pylons versus the TNG "shoved under the hull" look. Good enough for me!
- Lots of maintenance in an era where the Enterprise-D was meant to "clean itself". Make-work in a post-want society?
- While not likely right off the bat, an established formation flypast with an established ship class would do WONDERS for a lot of our questions for the Cerritos.
I'm sure that we'll have SO much more to go over episode by epsidoe - possibly more so that before, as Picard largely steered clear of Starfleet and DSC planted a firm stand for an aesthetic that is so different from its placed era. I'm curious as to how much would be forgiven by the fandom at large for a show that happens so soon after "Nemesis", but OTOH how much the show may be embraced for its light-hearted approach WHILE trying to stick to a relatively established canon era. Thoughts?
Mark
I think it's safe to assume that the animation style will not lend itself to a variety of consistency and continuity errors - misshapen phasers, stuff not to scale, etc. But still, in many ways this show will plug a hole in the canon of post-TNG-era Star Trek that people have been aching to fill. Will the tech be as interesting or canon-fitting as the other two series in this production era? Or will the interesting choice of placing it one year after Nemesis be fertile ground to explore, especially given that the assorted flashbacks in Season One of "Picard" start around a year later when the latter is promoted off of the Enterprise-E?
Me, I'm hoping to see some familiar things again.
- Set design for one - the bright lights of the USS Cerritos are very Enterprise-D, even if the cool color palette harkens to Voyager and most ships of the era that aren't the -D or -E.
- The TNG phasers are there, though I dunno if their lack of curviness was a deliberate choice compared to the ones we got in VOY and the later TNG movies.
- The ship herself has already been discussed a lot from the trailer thread, but I'm very comfy seeing that the Galaxy-class saucer aesthetic didn't die with that class being the only large example of the saucer, at least. If the scale is correct, the saucer is likely larger than a GCS, which is great and a little off-putting at the same time. On one hand, the animation medium may allow for the absolutely huge volume of the ship to be visualized better - swimming pools, whole parks, a full size hockey rink next to the basketball court, etc. But on the other, if such things show up it would be incongruous with the "look" of the era previously visualized with TV-sized practical sets and the occasional reference to the dolphin habitat.
- The bridge. Is square...ish? But all the usual TNG stations are there and familiar enough to make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. But there's actually enough space between the conn and ops stations to allow everyone in the command chairs a decent view out the window! But they're missing two science stations off the back wall. Indicative of the ship's mission?
- The shuttles look derivative of the Voyager version of the TNG version, with angled pylons versus the TNG "shoved under the hull" look. Good enough for me!
- Lots of maintenance in an era where the Enterprise-D was meant to "clean itself". Make-work in a post-want society?
- While not likely right off the bat, an established formation flypast with an established ship class would do WONDERS for a lot of our questions for the Cerritos.
I'm sure that we'll have SO much more to go over episode by epsidoe - possibly more so that before, as Picard largely steered clear of Starfleet and DSC planted a firm stand for an aesthetic that is so different from its placed era. I'm curious as to how much would be forgiven by the fandom at large for a show that happens so soon after "Nemesis", but OTOH how much the show may be embraced for its light-hearted approach WHILE trying to stick to a relatively established canon era. Thoughts?
Mark
