USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

[cooleddie74]

And it'd be different had the MU Terrans of Archer's time been light sensitive, then you could more believably say that Terran Empire scientists had cured the photosensitivity with medication or by altering the human genome between DSC and TOS, but Mirror Archer and the other characters aboard his NX-01 and the Defiant were walking around and functioning under the same lighting conditions as the rest of ENT as well as TOS.

 

[fireproof78]

And it'd be different had the MU Terrans of Archer's time been light sensitive, then you could more believably say that Terran Empire scientists had cured the photosensitivity with medication or by altering the human genome between DSC and TOS, but Mirror Archer and the other characters aboard his NX-01 and the Defiant were walking around and functioning under the same lighting conditions as the rest of ENT as well as TOS.

Eh, I always saw the lights as being darker in those episodes than the rest of the show. Certainly the Defiant appeared more darkly lit.

 

[cooleddie74]

Do we have any side-by-side comparison shots to see if the MU episodes were indeed more dimly lit on-set?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Do we have any side-by-side comparison shots to see if the MU episodes were indeed more dimly lit on-set?

Voila!

 

[DaveyNY]

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I thought I still had my sunglasses on for a moment there...

 

[jaime]

I thought I still had my sunglasses on for a moment there...

He is one! Get him! He’s from the MU!

Also.
I wear my sunglasses at night.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I thought I still had my sunglasses on for a moment there...

Nah, the sets are jusy really dimly lit

 

[DaveyNY]

He is one! Get him! He’s from the MU!

Also.
I wear my sunglasses at night.

WHerE's mY DaMn EyeDrops!!

 

[Tuskin38]

I'm still convinced that the Lorca eye thing did not originally have anything to do with the MU and was just a thematic choice. "Light sensitivity" was just what the new creative team came up with when they had to cook up something semi-coherent from the ingredients left behind by Fuller.

IIRC Fuller had nothing to do with Lorca being from the MU. That was something thought up after he left.

 

[USS Firefly]

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Damn you, I thought my mobile wasn't working properly

 

[cooleddie74]

Voila!
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I AM BORN ANEW IN BRYAN FULLER'S GENIUS.

 

[fireproof78]

I always thought In a Mirror Darkly was lit differently than TOS if ever so slightly

 

[Belz...]

Mister Leslie on the chair? For shame! Should've been Uhura!

 

[Timo]

...Of course, illumination levels are the one thing where we can discern neither "absolute" nor "relative". Our eyes are simply too good for that, automatically adjusting for brightness so that we see equally well within our whole range of acceptable light levels.

Burnham doesn't notice it's dark in the MU. She just has the vague impression of the light being different somehow. Similarly, there's no reason either we or the heroes should see the interiors of starships in "Mirror, Mirror" or "Through the Looking Glass" or "In a Mirror, Darkly" as dark, even when Spock's tricorder could easily establish that there's only 20% of normal lighting inside that eeeeevil starship. The eyes simply adapt.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Noname Given]

And it'd be different had the MU Terrans of Archer's time been light sensitive, then you could more believably say that Terran Empire scientists had cured the photosensitivity with medication or by altering the human genome between DSC and TOS, but Mirror Archer and the other characters aboard his NX-01 and the Defiant were walking around and functioning under the same lighting conditions as the rest of ENT as well as TOS.

The MU Terrans of Archer's time never crossed into the Prime Universe - they just got one of the PUs Constitution Class ships crossing to theirs.

And remember, the only thing stated in ST: D was that the light was 'different' from each other. Kirk and Co. (and even the DS9 MU episodes) never had people spending more than a few hours in either Universe at a time; so maybe it took more prolonged exposure (Days/Weeks) for symptoms to manifest to the point they were noticeable.)

[Yes, it makes no sense to me either, but hey, it's Star Trek. ]

 

[fireproof78]

The MU Terrans of Archer's time never crossed into the Prime Universe - they just got one of the PUs Constitution Class ships crossing to theirs.

And remember, the only thing stated in ST: D was that the light was 'different' from each other. Kirk and Co. (and even the DS9 MU episodes) never had people spending more than a few hours in either Universe at a time; so maybe it took more prolonged exposure (Days/Weeks) for symptoms to manifest to the point they were noticeable.)

[Yes, it makes no sense to me either, but hey, it's Star Trek. ]

Kind of like Sebaceans in Farscape. Humans for all intents and purposes but with one minor difference.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

It's called "In a Mirror, Darkly." Darkly.

 

[fireproof78]

It's called "In a Mirror, Darkly." Darkly.

No, I'm not seeing it...

 

[Mudd]

...Of course, illumination levels are the one thing where we can discern neither "absolute" nor "relative".

That's an incoherent statement.

Similarly, there's no reason either we or the heroes should see the interiors of starships in "Mirror, Mirror" or "Through the Looking Glass" or "In a Mirror, Darkly" as dark, even when Spock's tricorder could easily establish that there's only 20% of normal lighting inside that eeeeevil starship. The eyes simply adapt.

Nope. We easily notice when a room is too dark or too bright. We adjust the lighting, if we can.

Trying to explain every little contradiction and inconsistency in Trek is silly enough, but doing it by asserting nonsensical things is ridiculous.

 

[fireproof78]

Sounds like a VOY script.