Its less minimalism and more the brutalist communist design philosophy they have toward ship design. No longer is it about the spirit of freedom or exploring new frontiers in the same vein as the Enterprise and including her DNA in the ship design, but it's all about pointless IRL HR Bureaucracy and excessive moralfaggotry. Which produces ships that are just as hideous and lifeless.
Generations production started before TNG S7 wrapped up, but that does not invalidate the rest of your point. Not only ship design but the interiors. I hate both the flying Apple store look from the Abrams movies and the batcave look from Picard. Hate hate hate.
I'll admit that I didn't like the look of NX-01 as I thought it was a flip of the Akira-class and is downgraded TNG rather than upscaled NASA, but it's definitely better than what they make now. So much so that they have to lean on Enterprise memberberries to help S3 of Picard. While I'm at it, the Orville ship designs are a bit lacking too. While the Orville itself looks good as a frigate, the Union ship designs are a bit samey, like they all have similar mission specialties. Berman-era Trek had a pretty good idea of distinguishing which ships were scouts, flagships, cruisers, battleships, and
Cheetahmen.
They keep making more seasons and series so someone has to be watching this shit.
Corrected for accuracy because all viewing metrics and ST merch sale numbers has this franchise in the toilet dollar wise.
I've seen this happen too many times. The capeshit/niggerlover/gay crowd getting pandered to will get bored and leave while genuine fans have already quit long ago, the franchise will be left in shambles and ultimately canned for being a financial bomb, the IP will be stuck in cryostasis in the hands of some corpo which doesn't want to touch it again, and 10 years later some journo nigger will explain it away as Star Trek having "outlived its relevance" or being an "unsalvageable relic of the past" or some other bullshit like that.
I'm not sure I get your cultural referents. Bubsy is that video game that Ullillillia played, and One Piece is ... a boy band? K-Pop? Anime?
One piece is an anime that is still ongoing - has a ton of tie-in merch, got turned into a live-action series so good it's getting a second season and is STILL ongoing at something like a million chapters all still done by the original creator.
I should've used Pupa instead of bubsy, but employing anime a second time felt redundant; my point was to make a range between the feanchise that is most thriving, has the larger amount of fans, the better lovers/haters ratio and the most dead of franchises that nobody likes.
I was sure The Orville was getting canceled after season 3, so I never ended up watching it, but I’m going through it now and season 3 is even more Trek than the first and second seasons.
Also, I just looked it up and apparentlySteve SmithScott Grimes recently said production for season 4 starts in January.
That's great news. I thought it was done. Probably my favourite show of the last decade.I was sure The Orville was getting canceled after season 3, so I never ended up watching it, but I’m going through it now and season 3 is even more Trek than the first and second seasons.
Also, I just looked it up and apparentlySteve SmithScott Grimes recently said production for season 4 starts in January.
That whole rifle shooting through walls thing was a really bad idea to introduce. a weapon that can do that would be an absolutely massive advantage for all kinds of situations and is insanely overpowered when you stop to think about all the things that could be done with that kind of tech. That said, there was alot of weirdness going on with that rifle beyond the whole mini transporter built in thing. The way they were talking about developing a projectile weapon made it sound like it was in R&D for years while they tried to figure out how to make an effective projectile weapon, as if it was something nobody knew anything about. Sure they hadn't been generally used for a couple hundred years but the technology itself should have been well known and easily available. It shouldn't have taken long at all to develop an effective modern rifle for the era. Hell i'm a bit surprised they never kept them in production in general over the previous centuries due to the very reasons they stated they had created that one - environments where directed energy weapons wouldn't work
