I started all of Star Trek in story order last year.* (Off-Topic)

by Leviathan , Hotel Zanzibar, Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 09:29 (4004 days ago) @ scarab

I really like the look. I loved the Enterprise shows in the mirror universe and the Trials and Tribulations DS9 episode - just for the look of the old ship, sets, and costumes.

The rest of trek seems too bland. Cardassian set design was nice.

A lot of the 90's Trek suffered from consistently using the same palette. So many bases, peaches, and greys! There were times when they didn't do this, of course - and they stood out. As TNG went on, they started to mix up the lighting more creatively and that helped. Enterprise at least differentiated from all this by going cold blue, which also fit the tones of an earlier submarine-style spacecraft.

Obviously budgets are going to limit you, but I personally would have tried to make a lot of the rooms distinct from each other - different colors for different fields, etc. It might seem weird at first, but I think it would have paid off on a show that could last seven seasons. TOS series didn't do this, but each room already had a big mix of colors to help, especially in the crews' quarters, not to mention each planet they went to each week screamed with color.

Folks seem to think color is childish. A lot of modern, popcorn-movie-style video games think it. Everything has to be grey and brown to be taken serious. I think that's crazy. :)