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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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Edit: Just for fun, wanted to highlight just how much I had to brighten that shot from PIC:

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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I don’t know why they liked things so poorly lit on Picard. The Stargazer / Titan bridge was especially bad. It made the return to the D bridge even sweeter. (Though I think it was still darker than it was in the 90’s.)

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Let's explore then, shall we?

TNG s1e1

TNG s7e25

PIC s3e9

Yup, notable dimming.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

The harsh lighting in the first couple of seasons harkened back to TOS. Then the lights got warmer.

I don’t know how they did it, but they managed to find a lighting scheme in Picard that makes all the warm earth tones of the bridge look sickly and green.

“No-talent ass clowns.”

[–] teft@piefed.social 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Geordi was the one fixing it up. Between the crash and him fixing it he got his fancy VISOR replacement eyes. So maybe he thought he was getting the right lumens but in reality he didn't.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I concur that this is the canon reason.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don’t like Michael’s level lighting at home or at work, so this makes sense to me. Turn it down. Dark mode on screens. It’s better.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Easier on the eyes is good, but there are limits.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 2 points 2 weeks ago

No idea what that is but I’m going to guess Xfiles. Based on lighting.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I prefer to pick the max brightness in tv/monitor settings. Not have the creators crush every color into the lower half of the color space...

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How is that not like staring into the business end of a flashlight?

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I didn't say I put it on max brightness! Just that I don't want my gamut crushed to hell.

[–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not as dark as Generations though.

[–] lath@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Terrans had light sensitivity issues. It's a plot point in Discovery.

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

The whole show is garbage so I guess they just forgot to open the lid of the can

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

DS9 was my favorite era for Worf and Alexander.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Awkward teen Alexander is much more palatable than snotty kid Alexander by far.

And Worf getting to expand under a different crew with less judgement concerning his heritage was fantastic.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 weeks ago

I really appreciated that the crew of Martok's ship eventually came to accept Alexander and see him as a good luck charm. Every screw up meant a victory in battle.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Picard is the real Star Trek Into Darkness.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Season 3, in particular is absurdly dim.

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 weeks ago

Found Worf's account

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Moisturizer and sun screen, kids

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Technically “All Good Things…” never happened.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Of course, just wanted to show a variety of Worf with mild variation, but still Worf.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

All Good Things future Worf was peak Worf. It doesn't matter it never happened.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Didnt Alexander die in DS9?

[–] drzoidberg@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Think it was Star Trek Online. There's a cut scene where he dies, and Worf loses it.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Per Memory Alpha:

In Star Trek Online, set in 2409, players of the KDF faction encounter Alexander (under his "K'mtar" alias) on Rura Penthe, where he was imprisoned while attempting to discover a conspiracy against the House of Martok. With the player's aid, Alexander discovers that the House of Torg, whose members included the warden of Rura Penthe, were the masterminds of the conspiracy, aided by Romulan agents of the Tal Shiar. After Alexander and the player bring the evidence to the Klingon High Council, Chancellor J'mpok discommendates Torg and his entire House on the spot. When Torg attempts to kill Worf in revenge, Alexander sacrifices himself to save his father, thus preventing the fate that K'mtar had warned of in "Firstborn".

Interesting, not canon, but damn... got done dirty, like so many others. Justice for Icheb!

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nope, just enlisted with the Empire as a weapons officer and never mentioned again.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Was he even 10 years old when he enlisted?

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

He's got that same Samantha Wildman growth hormone imbalance.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

By the Picard episode, he has probably already gone back in time to kill himself

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

All kinds of cool details on Worf's outfit and weapons, can't even see them?

The only thing that changes are his ridges after S1