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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For some reason I can’t see the first tweet in the thread, so I don’t know if I am missing out on some important information.
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In the sliding scale from shinning versus gritty I stand closer to
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.
I skip most of the pixelated future on Streaming. Were you ever into Red Dwarf?
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Something to this. Famously, the bridge in Abrams' Star Trek looked like an Apple Store
And the high tech in Forbidden Planet (1956) had art-deco heat-dissipating fins on it, with clunky visible or audible relays. Robby the robot clickity-clacked like my dad's old adding machine
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