TNG is Holy to me but I think a lot of that comes from a combination of set design, color palettes, and especially whichever camera they used to film it, so they never looked like it was live action.
There is something about the combination of those three things that just makes it pleasing to watch over and over and it never gets old. Its soothing, like good whiskey, in a deeply satisfying philosophical sense that almost no TV is.
I get they have to film with modern cameras and make it look like live action and perspective shift but it just doesn’t feel the same to me.
And dear Kaeles, that makeup on Data (I assume its B9), where the hell is his mouth?
Please don’t make this suck I really don’t want movie Picard
Yeah, I place them alongside Star Trek V, as in “let’s pretend this never happened” because of the way they played out, casually discarding all growth that had happened before.
Trek producers keep missing the whole point of why Star Trek II is so good, and think it’s because of the villain and the battle scenes. It’s not. It’s so good because we see that characters have long since moved on. Kirk is not so much confronting Kahn as he is his own age. The fact that his eyes are getting worse, that he is inwardly already retiring. The fact that old casual mistakes are coming back to haunt him. Suddenly realising he is a father, and missed out on his son growing up.
It’s the fact that Nicholas Meyer took so much time to look into what worked and what didn’t in the old series, and his fan service was respect for the lore, not a J.J. Abrams way of imitating surface details.
All this to say I hope Star Trek: Picard goes this route, of not whitewashing the past, acknowledging everything, and instead making the consequences of his past, as well as how he deals with both that and his senescence the focus.
Though now I’m wondering. Who else would you try putting in the role? It seems a bit like talking about replacing Carrie Fisher. The role is literally the actor chosen in these cases.
I get the feeling Brian Blessed came to the set of Flash Gordon with his own wings sprouting from his back. He is truly too awesome to have come from our planet
