And Decius in "Balance of Terror(TOS)" was more hot-blooded and impulsive than either the Mark Lenard Commander or the Centurion. From their very first appearance in the franchise we saw Romulans with different personalities.
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Given the sheer level of trauma that Nero was smashed with should we expect them as normal Romulans?
Nero was a very different type of Romulan than Tomalak or the Romulan Commanders. Caitlin Dar wasn't much like any Romulans we saw before. Very up beat for a Romulan.
Forgive me, but I forgot who Dar was
“Don’t tell me it didn’t happen! I saw it happen! I know it happened! I was around when it happened! HAPPENED! HAPPENED! HAPPENED!!!
Design so advanced that the various movie and series production teams including Roddenberry himself deliberately ignored, if not outright retconned, it until the 1990s?
The word "seamlessly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there
It's worth considering that at the time TOS's first season was being made Stanley Kubrick was filming 2001: A Space Odyssey. Look at TOS and look at 2001 and tell me which has "visual strength" and looked "advanced for their era and influenced generations of sci-fi designs". Which do you think Star Trek: The Motion Picture looks more visually like? TOS or 2001?
They were all underused. 
KORRD: "SCREW YOU, TOO!!!"
Yeah hire a top notch talent like David Warner and then forget about his character for over half the movie,They were all underused.
"Would you mind handing over your weapons?"
His greatest contribution to any scene after Sybok seizes control of the settlement.
His greatest contribution to any scene after Sybok seizes control of the settlement.
Yeah hire a top notch talent like David Warner and then forget about his character for over half the movie,
But he did lead the board to a brief and bizarre obsession with St. John Talbot.
He was Robau before Robau.
His new age died a quick death.
No kidding! Here you go-6 whole lines.Yeah hire a top notch talent like David Warner and then forget about his character for over half the movie,
I had a massive disconnect with the franchise last night when some Muppet baulked at the consideration that Eugenics has nothing to do with making as many babies as possible. Or more accurately making more good babies and less bad babies. Good and bad of course being determined by a crazy person with too much power.
It's possible that the Supermen wanted to be an elite %0.000001 that ruled 12 billion mundanes, but that's just asking to be in a lavish bubble where you don't even have to be in charge, or creating a position where anyone of you have to do the work of three hundred men and women to keep the trains running on time... Which is dumb... I suppose that's what the Founders did? But they did not have the option of turning everyone else in the galaxy into a Founder.
A total homogeneity is what the Borg wanted. Once everyone is Borg, then there's no one left to threaten the Borg. Safety in isolation, which is all the Daleks wanted too. A quiet universe to be alone im with their thoughts.
It's possible that the Supermen wanted to be an elite %0.000001 that ruled 12 billion mundanes, but that's just asking to be in a lavish bubble where you don't even have to be in charge, or creating a position where anyone of you have to do the work of three hundred men and women to keep the trains running on time... Which is dumb... I suppose that's what the Founders did? But they did not have the option of turning everyone else in the galaxy into a Founder.
A total homogeneity is what the Borg wanted. Once everyone is Borg, then there's no one left to threaten the Borg. Safety in isolation, which is all the Daleks wanted too. A quiet universe to be alone im with their thoughts.
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Tom Paris(paraphrasing): "Humans on Earth gave us smoking tobacco products a couple of centuries ago."
St. John Talbot: "Well, I'm not on Earth, am I, grease monkey?"
St. John Talbot: "Well, I'm not on Earth, am I, grease monkey?"
Yeah hire a top notch talent like David Warner and then forget about his character for over half the movie,
There's a quote from that Making of Star Trek Doco narrated by gates McFadden...
"David Warner is a really nice guy, but he drinks a lot."
I can only imagine that that is an understatement.
David's finished product is always outstanding, but now we have to question if we as an audience have ever seen this actor work sober?
One of the underused Ambassador characters from Final Frontier
Explains why I forgot about her lol
Yeah hire a top notch talent like David Warner and then forget about his character for over half the movie,
If they had enough prescience, Warner could've played Gorkon here, explaining why he wanted peace in the next one
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