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scotpens Starship Captain
Joined: 19 Sep 2014 Posts: 879 Location: The Left Coast
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2021 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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Bud Brewster wrote: | Frankly, I have no special love for plywood sets, plastic props, and shower curtain costumes that were used because the show had so damn little money! |
What you dismiss as "plywood sets, plastic props and shower curtain costumes" were all part of a deliberate kind of visual stylization called Minimalism -- influenced by budgetary constraints, certainly, but ultimately integral to the show as a whole.
Link: https://brightlightsfilm.com/minimalist-magic-the-star-trek-look/#.Yc-rglmIaUk
Bud Brewster wrote: | After all, it's been a half century since this series first aired! And since it's supposed to present us with a vision of future, shouldn't we correct it's fuzzy vision a bit with 21st Century technology! |
The problem with "visions of the future" is that, given enough time, they always look dated. Fritz Lang's Metropolis looks like a 1920s version of the future. Forbidden Planet looks like a 1950s version of the future. Star Trek TOS looks like a 1960s version of the future. And Star Trek: The Next Generation couldn't look more '80s if the characters were wearing spandex and shoulder pads and playing keytars!
(Come to think of it, they did wear spandex and shoulder pads.) |
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