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Thanks!
You'd be surprised.
I'd be really surprised if they kew everything about him sure but the name Drexler and Trek go together like peanut butter and jelly and are almost synonomous. Too bad He and you are not working on Trek still under someone other than J.J. of course. What a mistake that was by Paramount. As I said elsewhere I think some clown got him confused with Captain J.J Adams from 'Forbidden Planet'. Life imitating art.
A news series is being considered now. It will not be made by Abrams. With any luck Doug and Okuda will head it up and I'll have a job. 
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While you and Drexler are da men, There is something about the whole Sternbach - Okuda approach that I don't like and find displeasing to the eye. Forgive me for saying this, but I loved togle switches. The digital displays of TNG turned me off big time. Touching a piece of glass was off putting in the extreme. If they leaned their hand on it by accident are they just going to jump to warp. GR had a reason for everything like why the hand held communicators instead of the pin, etc., etc., ad infinitum. The whole artistic design of the TNG bridge turned me off and the sets as well. The bridge was too big and uneven not unlike Picard's head. I hate ugly and gritty.. The aesthetics of even the digital displays were just hidious. But you said it here first. So who is producing and showrunning it if not one of Abram's Keystone kops?
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Bryan Fuller and Brian Singer. Big fans of the old show evidently. It was announced a few weeks ago that they wanted to make a new series. Here's oping.
http://whatculture.com/tv/new-star-trek-tv-series-to-be-pitched-by-bryan-singer-bryan-fuller.php
Steve
http://whatculture.com/tv/new-star-trek-tv-series-to-be-pitched-by-bryan-singer-bryan-fuller.php
Steve
And more:
http://whatculture.com/tv/david-foster-readying-to-pitch-new-star-trek-t-v-series-to-cbs.php
Notice they both want to return to the original feel of TOS and not go down the Abrams Star WarsTrek hole.
http://whatculture.com/tv/david-foster-readying-to-pitch-new-star-trek-t-v-series-to-cbs.php
Notice they both want to return to the original feel of TOS and not go down the Abrams Star WarsTrek hole.
Since Roddenberry was actually involved in the creation of Next Generation, I'm guessing he liked the TNG design ethic well enough. The design ethics of both TOS and TNG were based on where they thought technology would be headed in the future. Going by the current state of computer interfaces, I don't think they were too far off the mark.
That you didn't like it is a pity, but c'est la vie. I'm guessing you don't like iPads either.
TNG also had those leaning back far too comfortable leather chairs the first two seasons and then got rid of them. Data looked like he was lounging around stargazing in an emergancy. GR didn't have a chance control wise against the new breed of producer/designer. They got around him like a dinosaur. It was his own fault. He trusted and gave too much power to Berman who wanted to run things and who thought he knew better than the ailing Rodenberry. It was all very subtle and very deliberate. It was them verses him. He didn't have a chance.
This news was followed by some signals from CBS that JJAbrams, as part of his deal (which was extended from 5 to 7 years) can squish any other Star Trek output. Don't hold your breath.
You mean the badge-communicators and control consoles that were in TNG since day one, when GR was IN CHARGE OF THE SHOW?!!
Do you even read what you post?
Just to nip any misconceptions in the bud, I didn't initiate any of the glass panel type of control surfaces on TNG. Or TMP, where the whole thing really began. That style of control was in place for the second TV series before it morphed into TMP, and a lot of it was done before I was hired on in 1978. Yeah, I'm into tactile controls as well, including toggle switches and joysticks and levers and the whole lot. And I know that specific controls in environments like civilian and military aircraft cockpits are shaped the way they are for very good tactile reasons - especially if you can't see well or need to concentrate your attention elsewhere. Trek is science fiction, polished plexi touch screens were added as a futuristic (I normally hate the word) element. Would touch screens look silly in a smoke-filled bridge where you can't see what LCARS buttons you're hitting? Of course. Can we come up with a high-tech rationale for getting around that, with the computer sensing where the fingers are flying in real time, even through smoke? In concert with vocalized commands? Sure. Can we design a new, cool hybrid haptic control system for Trek ships? Hell yes.
Rick
The sets on TNG were either too soft or too ugly, especially the grids. Were those walls on the bridge padded, like a giant rubber room, in case they bounced off the walls or went crazy? The colors too bland - another hold over from TNP/TMP. I guess Rick Berman passed out the straight jackets early on, esp since GR was still there. A nightmare creatively.
^^^Rick's right. If you look at the close-ups for the weapons panel in TWOK you can see that while there are practical switches there are also touch surface controls (notably the FIRE control). Mike took that further in the bridge at the end of ST4 and carried that forward into TNG where virtually every control panel became "pictures under glass".
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