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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That description for Star Trek fits Star Gate as well.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

But aren't all the human aliens just humans, like genetically

And then there's other really NOT human aliens

[–] HieroProtagonist@lemmy.ml 1 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)

Well... mostly yes, but there are the real alien aliens too, like the little grey men (Asgard), parasitic worm things (Goa'Uld) or killer nano machine hive minds...

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

Right thats the thing I said

[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 19 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

OMG Glup Shitto is back 😭😭😭

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

My favorite is either Kit Fisto or Elan Sleazebaggano, but I always have a soft spot for Jek Porkins, gone but not forgotten.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I love that there's both Assaj Ventress and Savage Oppress.

If I had a nickel for every time there was a Star Wars character with a name that rhymed with Corsage Prom Dress, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 38 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Steven Moffat was so good at that on Doctor Who. Off the top of my head he had monsters that were: statues, an empty library, a crack in the wall, a child wearing a gas mask, pretty much anything that the BBC just had lying around. One episode had a monster that had evolved the perfect ability to hide, so we never even saw it lol.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago

One episode had a monster that had evolved the perfect ability to hide, so we never even saw it lol.

Peak genius.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 22 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That kid wasn't just wearing the gas mask... it was his FACE! lol

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 18 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

"Mummy? Are you there, mummy?"

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

That one will stay with me forever

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Red Dwarf: One sexy cat! Mwuaaaaaaaaaw

roller skates backwards out of the room

[–] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 59 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Star Trek: how alien can we make this actor look for 5 dollars and 32 cents?

[–] _NetNomad@fedia.io 20 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

"this actor" statistically being Jeffrey Combs

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

But one time it wasn't Jeffery Combs.

Edit: I looked it up - it was Jeffery Combs, that time, too. Nevermind.

[–] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

every sentient species is identical from the clavicles on down.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Just ask Riker!

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 14 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

Except the Klingons.

Edit: canonically Klingons have redundant organs for both survival and reproduction.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 hours ago

And for surviving reproduction

[–] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (4 children)

Well, yes, but actually, no.

The original Klingons in TOS were just people. Beyond that, they're different.

Edit: wait, from the clavicle down they're still the same, even in the new series.

[–] homes@piefed.world 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Man, old age hits Klingons like a truck.

[–] homes@piefed.world 15 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

he's, like, 140 in that picture. the actor John Collins who played him was 71.

Collins is also one of few actors to consistently play the same character in 3 series (TOS, TAS, DS9) and for over 30 years, pretty much right up until he died

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

(It was meant to be a joke about the makeup changes between TOS and DS9, pretending the forehead ridges were extreme wrinkles.)

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[–] homes@piefed.world 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

It is still a matter of debate whether Klingons have two penises or simply have two urethrae in one gigantic penis. We’re just gonna have to see a naked male Klingon to be absolutely sure…

However, since they can easily mate with females of other humanoid species, I think the latter is far more likely. How would two penises even work anyway? Do Klingon women have two vaginas? And how would THAT work?

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Not to get too graphic, but human women have two holes very close in proximity to each other.

~The rest, as they say, is an exercise for the reader.~

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[–] flandish@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

it always zapped me out of the moment when the robots screaming for extermination had british accents. i reckon i could just assume they translated to local language norma but still.

[–] sirimeow@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

There was an episode where they briefly showed daleks in Germany and they were shouting it in german lol

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 4 points 2 hours ago

That's very on-the-nose, eh?

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

oh. interesting. maybe i should try harder. thanks!

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Was that an episode or the movie?

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 hours ago

I think there was something about the TARDIS doing something to people so everything is translated. There was an episode (The Fires of Pompeii) with 10 and Donna where they're in Pompeii and Donna says something in Latin to some Roman guy and he doesn't understand it.

[–] AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

40k and Doctor Who are pretty muchbthe same.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 7 points 7 hours ago

I never thought about it before, but now that you mention it..... I can't believe I never saw it.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 17 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Babylon 5..... Just copy and paste that Star Trek one.

[–] ScrooLewse@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Fun fact: This is because the writer of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, originally pitched it as a Star Trek series. The studio told him "No, that's stupid. Go away." Then as soon as he was out of the earshot started writing Deep Space 9.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 4 points 6 hours ago

I honestly believe them when they say that they turned him away because they were already deep into DS9. But even if that weren't the case and they did steal the idea, all the way down to naming one of the leaders of an alien race "Dukat", at least we still got Babylon 5, and we also got DS9, which is the best of what I think of as the major Star Trek series.

[–] homes@piefed.world 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

but with crazier hair, weaponized telepathy, and more yelling

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Don't forget about the prehensile penis!

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

Useful for playing cards!

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

And a fuckload of hair spray

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Vorlons and Shadows are exempt.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago

Also that praying mantis criminal guy. Also, eventually humans.

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