“Now add bright red and blue lights.”
And have everybody shout at each other, have people stand in random locations instead of a workstation and give everyone anxiety so much they cry whenever somebody looks at them wrong.
“There, I created the perfect working environment” - Some shitty interior designer at Starfleet
Don’t forget the crying. So. Much. Crying.
Kathryn would have absolutely fucked their shit up, not a single tear shed.
“Increase lacrimation by 90%.”
Starlet? You just described retail life under those damnable lights that are supposed to simulate daylight for 16 hours a day
And lens flare, shitloads of lens flare.
That’s more JJ than Kurtzman, but he does have it a little too.
Also lights at eye level.
To be fair, when they darkened the lighting for Generations it looked way better than the flat bright of the show, so I can’t hate the dimmer lighting in the modern shows. I always use dark mode on everything so it’s just my preference.
Absolutely. I get that it’s often over-used for dramatic emphasis, but it’s definitely easier on the eyes.
Probably more practical than replicating sunglasses for everyone.
There are limits though…
Like this is the gang led by the Vulcan from Picard. I get that it’s night time, but use a little creative license.
I assumed this was a screenshot from What We Do in the Shadows.
Honestly, it’s a great scene and the idea of a Vulcan gangster that still adheres to logic is a great one, but it was soooo dark.
Here’s Worf in the same scene-
Oh for sure. It can be done correctly or badly. But the flat bright palette of 90s Trek is not necessarily the greatest thing in the world either, and I say that as someone who grew up on TNG and whose favorite series is DS9.
Extra last panel:
Voyager wins, the bridge is nice and bright until shit goes down, then it gets dimmer and you hear the red alert sound.
This is voyagers second win, after mopping the floor with the competition for the coveted “most annoying comic relief character” prize
NU-TREK sounds like a low calorie granola bar advertised to hikers
“Tell him he is a good cat, and a pretty cat.”
“…I will feed him.”
“…Perhaps that will be enough.”
As I am someone who is photosensitive I really like the low light.
He’s from the Mirror Universe, space him!
What like a Cylon? Dear lord please don’t blow me out the airlock. Shits cold out dar
Damn Federation guidelines on high-efficiency lighting
Partly they just want to be “dark” but I imagine it’s also for benefit of people who just leave their TV at the super-bright default settings designed to look good in the brightly lit stores that sell them, like some kind of video version of the loudness wars.
When we said we wanted a dark and gritty Star Trek, we didn’t mean literally dark and full of gravel.
Actually… I don’t think anyone even said they wanted a dark and gritty Star Trek. At least, not one set outside of the “evil” universe.
I would love a “dark” story based around smuggling during the dominion war. I always envisioned an entire ship’s interior as a holodeck that would change appearances when they were boarded by different factions.
Interesting take. Holo projectors throughout the ship. Creating labyrinths to keep intruders lost. It’d be great if it wasn’t cost prohibitive.
Harvesting tech from scuttled ships after conflicts. Just jury-rigged holoprojectors that glitch out every once in a while and send the entire crew to holo-Risa.
