7. Fantastic Art Design
Star Trek, like most audiovisual media franchises, lives and dies by its visual style. Matt Jefferies design for the original Enterprise from TOS has gone on to become a cultural icon and the prototype for most Star Trek vessels. Artists like Andrew Probert, Rick Sternbach, John Eaves, Doug Drexler, Michael and Denise Okuda, and Herman Zimmerman have added their own contributions to Treks visuals whether they were ships, space stations, computer interfaces, or sets. But over the years, things have gotten a bit too familiar just look at Star Trek Online and its dozens of Starfleet ships that start to blur together after a while. While plenty of the old Trek artists are still working in film and TV in some capacity, the Abrams film brought in some plenty of new blood to revitalize the franchises look. Whether theyll stay with the franchise or not is up in the air, but theyve proven that its possible to make Star Trek look modern without losing the familiar feel of the iconic TOS designs theyve remade. Any new Trek show, whether set in the Prime universe (where all the shows before the Abrams reboot) or in the rebooted universe, needs to bring together a great team of artists to create a fantastic look thats easily achievable on a TV budget and can draw in viewers.