Star Trek meets Mass Effect in Series

From everything I've seen so far in the trailers, it really does seem more like a Mass Effect series than a Star Trek series to me. The look and feel so far seem very much ME. The ship design with all the holographic interfaces and fairly bright lights in the contrast of dark backgrounds reminds me of the Normandy SR1 and the SR2 in ME3. All the action of course (although that might of course just be a trailer thing).


But then, for me, JJ Abrams' ST movies were already basically ME movies with the wrong ship models. They had everything that you'd expect from ME, the sleek polished and very much flowing design of things, the armors and suits were very Mass Effect-y, even the phasers were no longer particle beams but shot distinct (energy?) bullets like ME weapons. Then of course, you had the lens flare. On the non-visual side, you always had a fairly wacky plot-line with lot's of action and great character interaction (that was somewhat more important than the actual story) with many quotable lines and one liners. Conflicts usually went like this: Bad guy shows up -> good guy establishes being the good guy by offering to negotiate -> bad guy doesn't go for it -> action scene.

So yea, the new Star Trek is basically Mass Effect with different names and ship models but in essence, it's the same. It no longer is the old ST from the 60s/70s or the 90s but hey, once you realize that, it's still great entertainment. SO I am looking forward to the new series but I definitely expect to see more Mass Effect than Star Trek there as well.


BTW (and since it fits so well), I am just now re-playing this awesome game. Now that was Star Trek as it used to be!