Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x09 - "Terrarium"

[MarcKyle1964]

Yeah, I love visual continuity but there's a fine line between concern and being a whiny pedant.

It would be like whining that a '65 Mustang with updated suspension & brakes doesn't handle like it used to.

 

[cooleddie74]

Or a slightly different paint job. Still a '65 Mustang, if not the factory original paint job.

 

[TRON JA307020]

Because it looks like an aged television set from 1966 and not a good visual representation of the future, especially when the NX-01 now exists within the franchise.

Star Trek is not a period piece. It's supposed to be a futuristic sci-fi adventure. Hard to be futuristic in 2025 if your sets look like something that was designed while LBJ was in office.

What looks aged about it? It has monitors, a fancy helm, control buttons, a giant viewscreen.

 

[Sketcher]

It has generic, silly blinking lights for buttons and consoles clearly made out of wood.

 

[TRON JA307020]

It has generic, silly blinking lights for buttons and consoles clearly made out of wood.

They are painted just like any other set. They are clean and colorful. I don't see any wood colored grain anywhere..

 

[Trekker4747]

Okay, I liked the Metron showing up.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Pit monster sushi

Name of my Punk album.

 

[cooleddie74]

Sushi Pit Monster also works, but the downloads will be even higher.

 

[Fateor]

If I felt pedantic then I'd note that TMP and TNG feel nearly disconnected from TOS from a tech standpoint. TOS always stands out from any other Trek production. And, now, well, it feels less futuristic.

It's funny you say that given the TOS bridge design is actually more sensible then what we see in TMP and TNG.

Because digital interfaces don't work if the power goes out.

 

[cooleddie74]

At least the SNW bridge has both physical Jolly Rancher buttons and controls and touchscreens.

 

[Yistaan]

It has generic, silly blinking lights for buttons and consoles clearly made out of wood.

And Discovery has flamethrowers bursting out of vents at exact periodic intervals. The bridge screensavers don't seem so bad compared to that.

 

[Ovation]

Star Trek is not a period piece.

This should be pinned in every forum.

 

[fireproof78]

It's funny you say that given the TOS bridge design is actually more sensible then what we see in TMP and TNG.

Because digital interfaces don't work if the power goes out.

There's good design there but it also gives Bat computer vibes.

 

[Fateor]

And Discovery has flamethrowers bursting out of vents at exact periodic intervals. The bridge screensavers don't seem so bad compared to that.

Discovery also gave us those horrible Klingon makeups that prevented the actors from speaking clearly, put a giant amount of prosthetics on their Orions, and wasted millions of dollars redesigning a boat load of Klingon props and starships that they mostly had to throw out because everybody hated them.

It's production side failings were many and varied.

 

[cooleddie74]

Yeah, DSC was....something....early on.

 

[MarcKyle1964]

Yeah, DSC was....something....early on.

It was that for sure considering the few eps I saw of it.

 

[Tuskin38]

The discovery bridge also had switches and buttons along side the touch screens. I don’t recall if we ever saw anyone use them though lol

The Shenzhou’s bridge had even more.

At least the SNW bridge has both physical Jolly Rancher buttons and controls and touchscreens.

The Ticonderoga TOS set team even sent the production a bunch of them for DSC Season 2.

 

[Tuskin38]

What looks aged about it?

Everything. Take off those nostalgia goggles you’re wearing.

 

[Tuskin38]

that prevented the actors from speaking clearly

It wasn’t just the make up, it was also them using the correct Marc Okrand Klingon language pronunciations.

When Voq/Ash spoke Klingon when in human form he sounded nearly the same as he did with all the makeup on.

Same with Mary Chieffo when she played L’Rell again in voice over for Star Trek online.

 

[Nerys Myk]

That wasn’t (just) the make up, it was just them using the correct Marc Okrand Klingon language pronunciations.

How do you say "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains" in Klingon?