Just an observation, but neither of these trailers actually features the USS Discovery.
THIS is the USS Discovery.
http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums...9748970_5763091032625421910_n_zpsjkggkhdh.jpg
Well I like it. I think it looks colorful and exciting. Maybe more derivative of the JJ movies than I was expecting, but whatever. It's a modern look, which Trek desperately needs in order to stay relevant.
I mean, I'd love to see a '60s (or even '50s or '30s) styled take on Trek , but the only way to make that play to a wide audience would be as retro camp -- and that's never what Trek was about. It was always the future as we could best predict at the time the series was being made. And that means styles, looks, whatever, are going to change and be reinvented every few decades.
Well I like it. I think it looks colorful and exciting. Maybe more derivative of the JJ movies than I was expecting, but whatever. It's a modern look, which Trek desperately needs in order to stay relevant.
I mean, I'd love to see a '60s (or even '50s or '30s) styled take on Trek , but the only way to make that play to a wide audience would be as retro camp -- and that's never what Trek was about. It was always the future as we could best predict at the time the series was being made. And that means styles, looks, whatever, are going to change and be reinvented every few decades.
Well I like it. I think it looks colorful and exciting. Maybe more derivative of the JJ movies than I was expecting, but whatever. It's a modern look, which Trek desperately needs in order to stay relevant.
I mean, I'd love to see a '60s (or even '50s or '30s) styled take on Trek , but the only way to make that play to a wide audience would be as retro camp -- and that's never what Trek was about. It was always the future as we could best predict at the time the series was being made. And that means styles, looks, whatever, are going to change and be reinvented every few decades.
I agree that things need updating, but what people are upset about is that it looks straight out of what is an alternate timeline. The JJ or Kelvin timeline is the newest movies and everything in this trailer looks straight out of that timeline. If it had an updated look of TOS then that would be fine.I don't expect nor would I want the same sets from TOS showing up in a 2017 series.
Colorful? :confused
I am surprised they didn't develop an alternate updated look, to distinguish it from the movies, but on the other hand the JJ films are an "update" of TOS already. CBS may have figured they didn't need to reinvent the wheel here. I also have no trouble believing that two alternate timelines could look similar -- I mean, shoot, the Mirror Universe in TOS looked exactly like the Prime timeline in all but some details, and that was a reality inhabited by barbarians!
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Sure. The bright blues of the uniforms and lens flares, the saturated oranges and umbers of the desert planet, the greens of the Klingon ships -- there's a lot of color here.
I am surprised they didn't develop an alternate updated look, to distinguish it from the movies, but on the other hand the JJ films are an "update" of TOS already. CBS may have figured they didn't need to reinvent the wheel here. I also have no trouble believing that two alternate timelines could look similar -- I mean, shoot, the Mirror Universe in TOS looked exactly like the Prime timeline in all but some details, and that was a reality inhabited by barbarians!
"10 years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise"....
....were Pike, Spock, and the Enterprise.
I've been in modern day houses that look more advanced that the TOS set. You can't limit any new show to that level. Now if they're going warp 12, you've got a point.