I saw the screen shots of both before I knew either was going to be in the episode. I knew exactly what they were.
New Andorians
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But Andorians are Blue Humans, with attenae and white hair.
ENT tellarite have 5 fingers
That's one of those things where traditionally the excuse has been variations in the races. Similar to the Andorians, where there's so many variations of antennas and what not over the shows and films (the most drastic prior to this probably being the TNG ones, which were god awful, imho). I'm sure this one will be planted in that same category. On the Tellarites, I feel like there is some kind of neurosis going on where it just could not be left well enough alone over the years. They're space pigs. That's a fun and charming idea. Just let them be space pigs. That was my problem with ENT Tellarites. They look more like a shaved dog, they were made more vague just to not be as much space pigs, and that move takes away their character. Let 'em be pigs. Make it prettier, spruce it up, but don't fix what ain't broke.
now that I see it there is a tellarite with five fingers in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
santa claus is a tellarite and his elves are vulcans!!
Don't bring Santa into the Trek universe, or he'll be rebooted in ten years with four stomachs, a retractable beard, and a CGI sleigh.
That Santa Clause fellow is on Galaxy Quest, anyway.
No, they are aliens, who were shown on TV as humans with blue paint.
That's what they are. The tentacle aliens with a thousands heads, yes, those are alien aliens. The Humanoid aliens are humans with additional stuff on their faces.
On Deep Space Nine, Kor brags about eating the hearts of his enemies. Also, Worf was afraid that Jadzia would not make it into Sto-Vo-Kor because she had never feasted on the heart of an enemy. There's precedence.
Better than the Klingons, but then again anything is better than the Klingons.
There is no reason for this t o be , other than the budget and FX of the time.
It is what they are. It'd be like drawing George Washington with a third eye in the middle of his head. If you do that, you need some augment crisis explanation.
No, it is not what they are. Just as klingons are not guys with bad fake mustaches and brown face.
...with a long time between that and the bumpy heads, and an explanation already in the expanded universe (which was regarded with canonocity until Roddenberry redefined canon when TNG launched) for that. That explanation being the fusions. And a vague explanation after the fact in DS9 recognizing Klingons as existing as that in Kirk's time, and a complete canon explanation in ENT. Aliens changing faces drastically, as the Klingons did, was regarded as a thing within the canon itself. Vaguely changing is not so much a thing for major discussion, as other aliens, Andorians and Tellarites included, have been somewhat different looking from era to era.
And TOS Klingons are cool. *Deal With It Glasses*
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I'm still surprised how people were totally fine when Romulans grew that ugly forhead bumps without reason, but demanded explanation for why Klingons looked different.
The alien redesings in DISCO look fine. Andorians still look like blue people with antennae and white wigs, Tellarites still look like anthropomorphic pigs, just fiercer, Klingons still look like an alien warrior race with head bumps, Vulcans , well, they are identical. No drastic changes, as far as I can see. There have been bigger changes to make-up design in Trek's history than any of those
The alien redesings in DISCO look fine. Andorians still look like blue people with antennae and white wigs, Tellarites still look like anthropomorphic pigs, just fiercer, Klingons still look like an alien warrior race with head bumps, Vulcans , well, they are identical. No drastic changes, as far as I can see. There have been bigger changes to make-up design in Trek's history than any of those
Really? Star Trek fans here and elsewhere have been whinging about all the various "forehead aliens" since 1987. Why the Romulans developed ridges in less than 100 years was right up there.
It's just been a while since we had a new show to reignite that ire.
I want to see a Xindi.
Primate. Arboreal. Reptillian. Insectoid. Aquatic. Whichever. Throw a few into the new series. It's been more than a century since the attack on Earth and relations between humans/the Federation and the Xindi have to have improved at least a little since the classified mission into the Delphic Expanse.
Primate. Arboreal. Reptillian. Insectoid. Aquatic. Whichever. Throw a few into the new series. It's been more than a century since the attack on Earth and relations between humans/the Federation and the Xindi have to have improved at least a little since the classified mission into the Delphic Expanse.
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