Yeah, i'm not seeing how the Kelvin Timeline Connie bridge resembles the TOS one
Well, taste is - of course - utterly and completely subjective. But yes, I do think that, while the DIS-bridge has more elements directly lifted, that the JJbridge is the one closer in "feel" and aestetics/style to the TOS one. Especially with these pictures to directly compare.
Like, yes, a lot of design elements from TOS now look a little "clunky", because of the production techniques back in the day. But it's hard to overstate how
sleek and stylish and still completely functional that bridge looked. The DIS bridge is - even for modern standards - very angular and clunky, wheras the JJbridge captures IMO a lot of the sleekness and style.
This is ludicrously reductive and patently false. This insinuation that Disco has abandoned SF-Concepts is total bullshit. The difference is only in approach. Old Trek did everything in discrete 45 min chunks for the most part, seasons were anthology of short stories, many of which did trod the same ground. Where as Disco spreads a number of concepts over full seasons like a novel, so individual concepts are likely to be spread over multiple episodes before they are concluded and are woven together as opposed to be separate and distinct vignettes. Sure, one version may be more easily digested, but the woven novel version allows for a lot more examination of every idea and allows them to be played off other ideas while being explored.
Yes and no. No one said that DISCO had "completely abandoned SF-concepts". But it
does take the superhero-approach to storytelling. And don't forget: Actual superhero movies now use a TON of SF-concepts! Just look at everything from Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy or Captain Marvel. But they use these concepts more as backdropping, wheras the main storyline still follows the well-known defeat-the-badguy structure.
Season 2 is actually a vast improvement in this regard - it actually featured some great high-concept episodes! But these SF stories still are clearly relegated to B-plot status, with any concept needing to be neatly tied up after 45 minutes, even if it in reality would have far-reaching consequences ("Sound of Thunder" being IMO the most egregious - but still one of the best - examples). Whereas the main story-arc of the season has a very clear template, with a badguy to defeat to save the all life in the universe (a downgrade from the "saving the multiverse"). In season 1 even concept episodes like that time-loopy one (Magic to make the sanest man go mad) exclusively worked with a badguy to defeat, and both main plot lines where concluded by blowing up the main antagonist (Kol, Lorca) and then all consequences neatly cleaned themselves up.
They're clearly moving in the right direction though. It took quite The entire first half of season 2 didn't have a main "antagonist", and showed a major season arc can work without one and "just" a simple mystery/concept/puzzle to solve. In fact, I would argue the introduction of this seasons main baddie actually worked to the show's detriment. So I really hope they are going to boldly do more SF the coming seasons, but we just have to accept they didn't wanted to take the risk to start out doing that, and instead took the safe superhero/action movie-story route.
