He is right though. They had the scale right in the original motion picture series. JJ is more likely going for the coruscant prequel look here with these overscale buildings, and it is just silly. Then again almost every design from this movie is bloated, wonky and ugly where a more simple approach and beauty of the older films would have looked better imho.

Ryan Church worked on Star Wars Episode II and III. you want to talk about films being poorly designed, and yet he gets to revise the trek universe,lol.

Flashy and bright cartoon esque cgi versus the scale and realism brought by the aged universe of the old school models. The thing is Lucas betrayed his original design sense that they were not going for a bright and flashy shiny spaceships or overdone costumes look. and what did he do in the prequels what he original said was bad for the star wars universe. In fact what he said was wrong with other big budget sci fi films.

And Here JJ is doing the same. Roddenberrys unique vision is about humanity, idealism and the characters and exploring new worlds. Not explosions, rampant militarism and special effects, or defects as i will now call them in this film. Star Trek was about peaceful exploration. This jjverse is a lot like that alternate timeline in the next generation in yesterdays enterprise where the vessel Enterprise D was a vessel of war and not of exploration.