And the mystery was, how was his war conducted, why is there no damage, why is there no evidence of warfare? And it's because it was all computer driven,” McGuire says. And so you have this contrast of this computer-generated war and then this beautiful city that appears untouched. “These people are in the middle of a 500-year computer war. The Bauhaus-influenced aesthetic is not merely stylish, but fits the story.
Season one’s “A Taste of Armageddon” showcases a city that looks like it could have been conceived by Mies van der Rohe. Vladimir Kagan's Sculpture chair Courtesy of Chairish And since the show’s production designers relied on commercially available items, aesthetically-minded fans have another entry point to obsessively catalog and collect a piece of the Star Trek universe.
But it was also ahead of its time in creating a coherent visual language with set design. Star Trek altered the sci-fi genre and television forever with its racially inclusive, utopian view of the future. “Because it was not traditional, it was considered foreign looking, cold. “Despite its popularity in a certain subset of people, mid-century modernism was not widely accepted ,” says Brian McGuire, co-author of Star Trek: Designing the Final Frontier: How Midcentury Modernism Shaped Our View of the Future, published this August. Many set designs of The Original Series (1966-1969) incorporated the most forward-looking mid-century modern pieces to convey the year 2266, like Vladimir Kagan’s Sculpta Chair designed for Chromcraft, or The Ribbon Chair by Pierre Paulin for Artifort. The Bodum cup is far from the only mass-produced, commercially available piece of decor used in Star Trek’s imagined version of the future. Though out of production, the cup is available from second-hand sellers like Etsy, where it is often conveniently labeled the Picard cup. And they can: His preferred drinking vessel, used not only throughout The Next Generation (1987-1994), but also by Captain Kathryn Janeway on Voyager (1995-2001) and of course the modern iteration of Picard (2020-present), is not a manufactured prop, but Carsten Jorgensen’s Bistro Cup designed for Bodum in 1974. But there is one thing many Trekkies can agree upon: they would like to own and drink out of Captain Jean-Luc Picard’s tea cup (hot Earl Grey tea optional). The Star Trek franchise has produced one of the most comprehensive universes ever seen in pop culture, with a dedicated fan base ready to swoop in on any inconsistencies.
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