Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x09 "300th Night"
ryper@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Why did they bother introducing the Athena’s bridge crew if they’re not going to use them?
I guess reunification between the Vulcans and Romulans must have taken a while if Vulcan was renamed to Ni’var in Nahla’s lifetime.
Convenient that they waited until the school year was over to lose most of the school.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 days ago
Alex Kurtzman has said on a couple of occasions that this series is less expensive to produce that you might imagine, and I do think there have been a handful of moments throughout the season that seemed like cost-cutting measures. This was definitely one of them.
StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 3 days ago
Jonathan Frakes mentions several things in the TrekMovie interview that may impact costs.
Alex Kurztman set the direction style with more close up, tight camera work. More, he specifically ordered special long camera lenses to enable that. This means that despite the enormous sets and UHD cinematography, with long lenses they are able to block the scenes without as much extraneous detail.
Saving the wide angles for when they need them but closing up on the characters, and doing more in set internal volumes must surely reduce a lot of crew time and accelerate production.
skfsh@startrek.website 3 days ago
Announcing Becky Lynch only to use her an an extra twice, doesn’t feel like cost cutting as much as a potential breach of contract.
ryper@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I don’t watch WWE, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Becky’s wrestling gear based on her character’s uniform has gotten more screen time than the actual uniform.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 days ago
I think we’d have to know a lot more to draw that conclusion - and not for nothing, but from what I can remember, she announced herself on social media - CBS didn’t really say anything IIRC.