>And is that color stretching thingy a lens flare?
Yes, particularly when you shine a bright light directly into an anamorphic lens. Anamorphic lenses are meant to squish super wide screen images horizontally onto 35mm film, but since this show is 16:9 and shot digitally it makes no sense and wouldn't surprise me if it was digitally added. It started with the JJ Abrams trek movies as he's a big fan of super wide anamorphic flares and it was an over done meme even at the time.
>And is that color stretching thingy a lens flare?
Yes, particularly when you shine a bright light directly into an anamorphic lens. Anamorphic lenses are meant to squish super wide screen images horizontally onto 35mm film, but since this show is 16:9 and shot digitally it makes no sense and wouldn't surprise me if it was digitally added. It started with the JJ Abrams trek movies as he's a big fan of super wide anamorphic flares and it was an over done meme even at the time.