In the finale, we wanted to leave you with a feeling that this is a ship of people who like each other. We are so happy to have been a part of Star Trek. We also wanted to make sure they felt like we knew this was a final thing while giving them something to like, laugh, share, and enjoy. So, finding that balance and accelerating just enough will leave you wanting more but not leaving you wanting more in a betrayal kind of way.
“That literally is just Star Trek. That is just the technicolor aesthetic and the neon colors. I wanted the aliens to feel like these pops of color in a drab world. The humans and the locations, as best we could control, we tended to go with more muted colors for spaces and for costumes. The bright pops of the alien’s eyes and the goo would feel like this neon thing that comes to this world.”
“I like to think of it as archeological sound design. We have a lot of great tools these days to be able to do that pull apart stuff, and look at it visually in various ways. We have a bank of some of the original TOS sounds and we’ll try and use them and update them and get them a bit more modern because they’re all recorded on tape.”
“A very key part of Lower Decks is the background ambient sounds.”
