What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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17 minutes in and this film is pretty good. No wonder my brother told me I'd love this film. Still waiting for the sci-fi angle so I know all of you said I'd like it. But I'll get there.
EDITED TO ADD: I spoke too soon! Now I see! Michelle Yeoh's imaging what she saw in the letter and now her chair's doing all kinds of crazy things! Back to the movie!
And some reality-bending!
EDITED TO ADD: I spoke too soon! Now I see! Michelle Yeoh's imaging what she saw in the letter and now her chair's doing all kinds of crazy things! Back to the movie!
And some reality-bending!
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Hot Dog fingers!
The Romulans' appearance should never have been changed for TNG.
And then the TOS Movies being produced at the exact same time kept the smooth forehead TOS look, something largely carried over into the 2009 Kelvin Timeline movie though enhanced with slightly bulging cranial bones. PIC establishes that the smooth, bulged and ridged looks are ALL in existence in their culture but for years Trek just didn't know what it wanted to do with Romulan makeup other than "make them look Vulcan but in bad or scheming moods."
I'm really just miffed that from TNG on they gave every.single.Vulcan.and.Romulan. such thoroughly ugly bowlcuts! TOS and the Movies T'Pring looked great with her up-do, the Feamle Romulan Commander looked great with her long, brown hair, both versions of Saavik looked good with their 80s hair.
And then TNG came along and now suddenly every Vulcan and Romulan had to have the same, unflattering hairstyle. Blech!
And then TNG came along and now suddenly every Vulcan and Romulan had to have the same, unflattering hairstyle. Blech!
Yeah, it’s particularly odd since the only Vulcan with that hairstyle in TOS was Spock. All of the other Vulcan/Romulans had different styles.
The Excalbian image of Surak had hair like Spock's. But yeah, all the other TOS Vulcans had hair of different styles and textures.
Plus it made zero sense that the Romulans would cut their hair just like the Vulcans. Not only have they been separated as cultures since the 4th century AD (according to Google), but...the Romulans don't like the Vulcans, why would they want to look like them?
There's other ways to make sure that the ears are visible.
There's other ways to make sure that the ears are visible.
I think the bowl cut was meant to evoke the helmets from the Balance of Terror, but yeah it makes no sense that the Romulans would keep the same style haircut.
So annoying.
Yeah, it really is very frustrating. The best way I've been able to reconcile it is that Romulans sublimated their passions and emotional surges in to a strong sense of duty to the state, evoking the Roman ideal of pietas, duty to family, state and the gods. In this case, it got moved in to more of a paranoia due to mistrust of both their own people and outsiders. So that sense of duty was often compromised.
Unfortunately, not quite the opposite type of the Surakian logics.
Agreed. It's a bit stupid and tbh even Spock didn't always have it
Agreed again. It sometimes feels like the Klingons are more the passionate opposite to the Vulcans
And imo the Vulcan-Romulan rivalry also wasn't shown enough
There was only one hair salon available in the whole Empire, and the owner was a secret fan of the House of Surak fashions.
All run by Mr. Mott
I got the impression they were attempting to have the Romulans model a common look similar to what the Chinese had soon after the fall of the emperor to Mao and his followers, along with a similar mindset.
I thought so as well but even then they were never especially similar
More the mindset of "We are the People's Republic, all the people must look alike!" than trying to look like the Chinese.
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