I have watched about half of the first third season's Discovery episode; I've never finished it because it couldn't captivate me enough to do so and I must admit that I did not go through either Discovery, nor Picard, nor the Kelvinverse with the same enthusiasm as everything before it, and yes that includes Enterprise which I very much enjoyed.
Star Trek has often been called “Shakespearean” in it's acting style; this has been either a criticism or praise but the characters on it feel somewhat unnatural in how they speak — they talk unlike actual contemporary human beings and I feel this is a good thing, because it is the future and by speaking as they do, it takes it out of any actual era. In retrospect when watching, say, T.N.G., the characters do not sound as if they be human beings from the 80's era and I feel Star Trek has now lost that — the characters simply sound and feel too real and contemporary.
Even the aliens have fallen to this: Romulans before Picard sounded and looked very unnatural in their dry, somewhat arrogant voices, and their bland haircut, whereas in Picard, they've been given rather human, and contemporary voices, and on top of that they've been given very human, and gendered haircuts — they seem to follow contemporary Anglo-Saxon gendered fashion standards now, which certainly does not make a lot of sense for 24th century alien species, yet they do.
It was always my problem that in Star Trek the humans seemed to have rather contemporary haircuts, but at the very least they were either always in uniform, or when civilian had purposefully strange-looking outfits as to not make them feel contemporary, and the aliens certainly all had their own sense of fashion and hair styling:
His hair is human; his beard is human; his voice is human; his clothes are human — this is hardly a Romulan; this is 2020 contemporary young adult male Englishman, who so happens to have pointy ears.
However much Jake Sisko's haircut felt all too contemporary, at the very least they made sure to make his civilian attire purposefully timeless and somewhat alien.
This started since the Kelvinverse, but Star Trek no longer feels as if it be the future, but rather as if they be very contemporary 2020 men, who so happen to have fancy technology, and often pointy ears.
Exceptions of course existing here and there:
Star Trek has often been called “Shakespearean” in it's acting style; this has been either a criticism or praise but the characters on it feel somewhat unnatural in how they speak — they talk unlike actual contemporary human beings and I feel this is a good thing, because it is the future and by speaking as they do, it takes it out of any actual era. In retrospect when watching, say, T.N.G., the characters do not sound as if they be human beings from the 80's era and I feel Star Trek has now lost that — the characters simply sound and feel too real and contemporary.
Even the aliens have fallen to this: Romulans before Picard sounded and looked very unnatural in their dry, somewhat arrogant voices, and their bland haircut, whereas in Picard, they've been given rather human, and contemporary voices, and on top of that they've been given very human, and gendered haircuts — they seem to follow contemporary Anglo-Saxon gendered fashion standards now, which certainly does not make a lot of sense for 24th century alien species, yet they do.
It was always my problem that in Star Trek the humans seemed to have rather contemporary haircuts, but at the very least they were either always in uniform, or when civilian had purposefully strange-looking outfits as to not make them feel contemporary, and the aliens certainly all had their own sense of fashion and hair styling:
His hair is human; his beard is human; his voice is human; his clothes are human — this is hardly a Romulan; this is 2020 contemporary young adult male Englishman, who so happens to have pointy ears.
However much Jake Sisko's haircut felt all too contemporary, at the very least they made sure to make his civilian attire purposefully timeless and somewhat alien.
This started since the Kelvinverse, but Star Trek no longer feels as if it be the future, but rather as if they be very contemporary 2020 men, who so happen to have fancy technology, and often pointy ears.
Exceptions of course existing here and there:
