A comment on room design. I like the design for Uhura's room, which I assume is for the lowest ranking people on the ship.
The design of the sleeping pods feels in keeping with the overall design of the time. It has that clunky, thick feeling that gives it an air of 60's futurism, while also being clearly modern. The curved walls suggest the beds could be placed near the outer hull where the starship itself curves, which make it have the same kind of utilitarian feel as it would on an actual ship or submarine.
The use of enclosed pods also make more sense than the traditional bunk beds we see in Enterprise, since it gives you more privacy. Crewman Daniel's seemed to share his quarters with one other person.
Voyager also seemed to have more traditional bunk beds, as seen in Telfer's room in "Good Sheperd". Both Telfer and Tal had at least one roommate. We see very little of their rooms but we are shown they have separate beds with no privacy aside from covers.
In Undiscovered country they have rooms with at least 6 beds that look terrible to sleep in. Your pillow WILL fall out. You WILL hit your head on that pillar. Neither top or lower bunk are at a comfortable height. Atrocious design, 0/10.
The Strange New Worlds beds are more like a version of the Ds9 bunk beds, that have privacy screens. This is on the Defiant, so usually we see a lot of beds in a small space and even Sisko doesn't get a fancy room without the bunk beds. (From Past Tense).
This is clearly a reflection of cost, as much as intention in design. Telfer's and Daniel's rooms weren't going to be featured a lot, so they didn't create new set design pieces for those scenes. The cabins on the Defiant are featured a lot so they built those and I guess the same with Uhura's room.
This became an accidental deep dive into bed design for lower decks people so here you go I guess.
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Everyone is hiding something. Whether they know it or not
Narek from Star Trek: Picard
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“The gift doesn’t have to be perfect...it just has to feel right.”
[moodboard by @lightning-writes , ily]
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The smooth glass prisons in tv/movies today really have nothing on the Star Trek brig.
Look at all those thingies and stuff on the walls. Random giant vents (?) on the inside of a starship. Round things. Square things. More square things. Incomprehensible red lines everywhere. Everything looks like it’s part of a plastic toy set. Absolutely nothing looks functional.
The aesthetic. The vibes. Modern television could never.
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There can be no utopia without crime. Ergo, an organized criminal enterprise is logical
Krinn from Star Trek: Picard
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