Why the depressing colours in Starfleet's later years?

[bullethead]

I don't recall any Galaxy class ships going BOOM in early TNG. Its not a hard stretch to imagine the ships in the Dominion War weren't hauling around a K-10 school system.

The Yamato blew up in the first five minutes of Contagion.

 

[maneth]

Some 25 years on, the Enterprise-D looks just as unbearably '80s as TOS looks like the '60s... That beige color scheme is IMO rather yuck, nothing cheerful about it at all.

 

[prabap61]

Starfleet uniforms were generally broken down by color amongst the three..Hence it takes regular color changes.. also u can get more vidoes about it in ufo vidoes..

 

[BillJ]

I don't recall any Galaxy class ships going BOOM in early TNG. Its not a hard stretch to imagine the ships in the Dominion War weren't hauling around a K-10 school system.
Sadly there is no right answer here. Liking or disliking the D's interior is just that. One person's warm and inviting is another person's bland.

The Yamato was lost due to an Iconian computer virus in season two's Contagion.

 

[T'Girl]

Antarctic research stations don't have day care facilities. etc

Argentine's Antarctica Territory has 16 children. Chile's Antarctic Territory has approximately 15 children. I don't know if there's actually a day care, but two of the children in the Chilean civilian community are in kindergarten.

 

[Newton]

Some 25 years on, the Enterprise-D looks just as unbearably '80s as TOS looks like the '60s... That beige color scheme is IMO rather yuck, nothing cheerful about it at all.

Yep, I agree that the beige walls and orange doors are a bit much, but I think the lighting was great, particularly on the bridge. The very large lighting panels made everything nice and bright, which is spot on if you are going to spend extended amounts of time out in space.

The Voyager grey walls were depressing, although the design was pretty nice.