Star Trek: how alien can we make this actor look for 5 dollars and 32 cents?
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"this actor" statistically being Jeffrey Combs
But one time it wasn't Jeffery Combs.
Edit: I looked it up - it was Jeffery Combs, that time, too. Nevermind.
every sentient species is identical from the clavicles on down.
Except the Klingons.
Edit: canonically Klingons have redundant organs for both survival and reproduction.
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.
Kor! The Dahar Master!
Man, old age hits Klingons like a truck.
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
(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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Klingons have two of every organ.
At least for humans, skin is an organ. So I am imagining that Klingons have an extra skin somewhere like as a pouch, and when their main skin is too damaged, all of their bones and shit slide into the spare skin.
maybe they just have extra layers, making their skin very thick?
And for surviving reproduction
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?
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.~
No, no… Go ahead and get graphic. Draw me a picture and post it.
See, I wouldn’t know, because I do not have sex with women (human or otherwise). And, being a man, I can’t get my second hole down there, as I’m simply not that flexible.
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Just ask Riker!
Extras with red skin paint and bad wigs.
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.
That kid wasn't just wearing the gas mask... it was his FACE! lol
"Mummy? Are you there, mummy?"
That one will stay with me forever
One episode had a monster that had evolved the perfect ability to hide, so we never even saw it lol.
Peak genius.
Hey! Who turned out the lights!?
OMG Glup Shitto is back 😭😭😭
My favorite is either Kit Fisto or Elan Sleazebaggano, but I always have a soft spot for Jek Porkins, gone but not forgotten.
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.
Babylon 5..... Just copy and paste that Star Trek one.
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.
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.
but with crazier hair, weaponized telepathy, and more yelling
And a fuckload of hair spray
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Red Dwarf: One sexy cat! Mwuaaaaaaaaaw
roller skates backwards out of the room
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That description for Star Trek fits Star Gate as well.
But aren't all the human aliens just humans, like genetically
And then there's other really NOT human aliens
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40k and Doctor Who are pretty muchbthe same.
I never thought about it before, but now that you mention it..... I can't believe I never saw it.
Star Wars .... hyper-stereotypes every racial group on the earth to live in slums or ghettos ... makes white people live in marvellous futuristic cities, lush gardens or beautiful architecture and lead entire galaxies
“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy”
“Lots of minorities, huh?”
“Now I didn’t say that…”
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.
There was an episode where they briefly showed daleks in Germany and they were shouting it in german lol
That's very on-the-nose, eh?
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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.
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