View looking down a corridor aboard the USS Enterprise. Production Designer Jonathan Lee explained that some of STRANGE NEW WORLDS' Enterprise interiors were designed imagining what the original Enterprise may have looked like beneath its more modest set design: "Our corridors look very different from TOS. That’s where we began to get our ethos of our new ship. Something I wanted to do from the very beginning was expose the structure of the ship and where possible expose the technology. In the sixties, they had a lot of blank grey walls and it reminded me of houses in the fifties where you’d see Victorian houses with all the Victorian detailing covered up. So what would happen if you took off those grey walls in TOS?"

USS Enterprise corridor, Production Design by Jonathan Lee, STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS (2022)

"Something I wanted to do from the very beginning was expose the structure of the ship and, where possible, expose the technology... So what would happen if you took off those grey walls in TOS?"

there's not a single character on that show that the writers haven't ruined. eh maybe not Pelia or Scotty but there's 2 more seasons to go

it's all we have now, Cody 😭

I was just thinking about this and how Una couldn't just be a brilliant, capable woman, she had to be genetically engineered. some real weird messaging in this show

Ubiquitous publicity photo three quarters top view of the Starship Voyager using the studio model designed by Rick Sternbach under supervision of STAR TREK: VOYAGER production designer Richard James. According to VFX Coordinator Dan Curry, "The Voyager hero model was a five-foot miniature. And one of the things we did with that, is inside the larger windows, we'd gone around the sets and took slides of various sets and then bent them into little arcs like miniature cycloramas inside the windows. So when tighter shots of the ship fly by, you'd get a sense of perspective shift as the ship move by, which would help the verisimilitude, as rather having white-lit windows."

USS Voyager, STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

Ethan Phillips as Neelix carried away by an angry group of Kazon on the barren surface of the Ocampaan homeworld. The Ocampaan planet was filmed at El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, the same location used to represent the desert planet in TNG's "Final Mission". The lake bed was chosen after no other suitable location (which was close to Paramount Studios) could be found, Producer David Livingston recalling, "I thought it was nuts to go all the way out there, but [Director] Rick [Kolbe] totally insisted."

Ethan Phillips as Neelix in "Caretaker", STAR TREK: VOYAGER (1995)

I actually really loved the comfortable romantic banter between JL and Laris in "The Star Gazer", but that was as much as the writers cared to develop their relationship. another missed opportunity

One of the more impressive failures of Picard was completely misunderstanding the appeal and popularity of Laris as a character and cramming her down into the Love Interest box.

Me as a child

awkward...

I see what you're doing here, keep going!

hmmm I wanna see

it works both as something unique and in the ecosystem of costumes they introduced in the series. now give yourself a tri-com

this is a cool uniform

somehow I got in too

hey remember when Paramount ruined the 50th anniversary with a terrible release date and barely any marketing for Star Trek Beyond?

this does remind me of the few times PIC really succeeded, episodes like "Imposters" where a sci-fi predicament is solved by working through decades of emotional baggage and a putting a cap on an unresolved storyline

love that!

someone also once said they wished PIC was Jean-Luc going on archeological adventures, that would've been nice too

Michael Chabon once said he mourned the lost version of Picard that was just Jean-Luc and Laris investigating crimes in La Barre and I think it's Star Trek's greatest missed opportunity

The honest answer, if I were in charge of the whole franchise, is I'd probably give it a rest for a while. Maybe put an original stand-alone movie in development.

my kink is seeing fascists lose

Herman Zimmerman explains why Voyager was yet another redress of the TMP-TNG sets:

"the studio wanted to do it on a shoestring, not knowing if – excuse the pun – the thing would fly."

a woman is smiling with her eyes closed and wearing a red uniform Alt: Sonequa Martin Green as Captain Michael Burnham from Star Trek Discovery, slowly smiling

With the cancellation of SFA and the dismantling of the SNW sets, the Kurtzman era appears to be over and I’m so thankful for it and also trying to be hopeful for the future of trek

Hans Zimmer is a transphobe. A tweet reads "I worked for him. I did good work that he praised, but after transitioned he quickly had me fired. He had cue notes named "tr*nnv fight"' etc etc... It's a pattern of abuse that will inevitably come out over time, and I'm glad that the industry is changing slowly."

I regret to inform y'all that Hans Zimmer fuckin sucks.

Borg Cube interior - Voyager season 6

agreed, but I'm one of these purists / sickies who prefers OG DS9 to post-Worf DS9

Alexander Siddig was big mad about the writers suddenly making Bashir genetically augmented (in the alt text) and I don't blame him

I really appreciate that they (sometimes) added grain and a little depth to the remastered burn-ins to make them blend better with the static on-set graphics