It’s fascinating how the space SF hardware aesthetic of every era seems to mimic computer hardware aesthetic of that era
TOS has a mainframe computer room look
Star Wars has a PC era look (clunky little luggable devices like R2D2 with visible joints)
Now it’s all Samsung look
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I wonder if Voyager is my favorite Star Trek because it has late PC era look, from about the time I bought my own first new computer (~1998). Beige everywhere and Jeff Goldblum on TV complaining about beige and pitching the bubblegum spectrum of iMacs.
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Wish I had a better eye for visual grammars so I could make this hypothesis more precise. Help ?
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The design aesthetic of Aliens is top-shelf for me. 25 years later, and it still looks completely believable.
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Also explains my soft spot for Space 1999 which had more of an Atari look
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