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New Star Trek Enterprise Looks Stupid
By radii

When the source material has got it right, why would you change it?

Every single version of Star Trek has tried to re-invent the aesthetic of the show, when what made it cool was the original 60s look.

What is more of a challenge is to explain through the story WHY it looks the way it does with the minimalism, and primary colors and bold styling.

One line in the script could make a passing reference to an artistic and/or philosophical movement within military design that caught on and explains the look. EASY!

The whole reason the look of science fiction looks as it did from the 1920s through the 1960s was becaused the aesthetic drew upon artistic and philosophical movements: streamline, art-deco, pop art, etc.

The current look of the Enterprise which has been teased by Paramount and now designer Ryan Church seeks to throw a little cold water on is lame. The nacelles look like that planet-eater from an episode in the original series.

The texture of the fabric of the crew's uniforms is wrong. The lighting is wrong. The glass panels and viewscreens are wrong.

I'll go see it. It will be in the top 4 or 5 of the films I figure (beside Star Trek II, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek IV, Star Trek: First Contact, and Star Trek III) ... but JJ Abrams and Church and the whole team still put too much of their own stamp on the look.

The SOUNDS, the MUSIC, the minimalism and the special effects and colors are what made the original Star Trek so distinctive that it is now iconic.

- radii

http://www.galacticavariants.blogspot.com

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