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Space Mutiny versus ST:TNG - baffling


Star Trek: The Next Generation came out a year before this did. It was a TV series, with a TV series budget. Space Mutiny is a feature film. The set and props of TNG, while a bit dated, still are plausibly futuristic. The set of Space Mutiny makes Star Trek TOS's set look futuristic. The old IBM terminals set into consoles don't help any, either. How could anyone put together such a terrible looking set, with that kind of budget, a year after TNG came out?!?! Not to mention the horrible costumes, which again make Star Trek TOS look futuristic by comparison. I just don't get it!

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Obviously you're a big Star Trek fan and are just jealous that those shows did not have future technologies as advanced as those in Space Mutiny. I make my case:


Wall mounted keyboards and formica monitors are true signs that Space Mutiny takes place in a very advanced future beyond anything we've seen.

Hula-hoops for dancing and big glass bowls of bubbling green liquid and dry-ice at a bar are definitely what we can expect in the next hundreds years or so for future nightclubs.

Spaceships so brilliantly engineered that the interiors will be constructed of sheetrock and brick walls. And in addition to this, will have sophisticated windows that will mimic sunlight outside as seen on the surface of a planet instead of giving only views of the cold, dark void of outer space.

Specially trained top ace starfighter pilots will be outfitted in the most advanced space gear ever to be designed. It is quite apparent that in the future a wife-beater, very futuristic silvery lame pants and a white motorcycle helmet can protect any warrior in space combat even when they're in their own rooms.

And these are just a few points that can be made among others such as pyramids of plasma globes used in space magic, methane canisters to fill cows, and high-tech safety devices in the form of extraordinarily complex railing systems.

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Quite right!
Few people realize that Steven Spielberg based almost all his production design in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" on the cutting edge technology on display in this masterpiece of futuristic movie making....

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What, you think that IBM 8088 desktops and the inside of a brewery don't look high-tech and futuristic?

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You're incorrectly assuming that movies always have better production values and higher budgets than TV shows.

In reality, many television series have far greater amounts of money and a larger staffs of experienced professsionals. This was true as soon as TV blossomed into national network shows and syndicated productions.

So the short answer is you're comparing a cheap economy car to a Rolls Royce.

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