Yeah if it was just an earth colony I'd be fine. I forgot ent had illyrians
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Yeah if it was just an earth colony I'd be fine. I forgot ent had illyrians
Idk for me they're a bit bland. I love the Vulcans, the Trills and the Bajorans as races but their designs come off as lazy or uninteresting. At least Bolians are blue and have that weird stripe
I guess. But just a nose ridge or pointy ears isn't enough for me. At least make them another color
Works for me.
I don't see the need for every alien who needs to have these intense prosthetics.
One thing to keep in mind is that aliens are only as interesting as the writing is done.
Prosthetics do not make an alien interesting. Betazoids could be very interesting, like in "Tin Man" or with Lon Suder. Some could be less interesting or annoying. It's all in the writing. Not the make up.
Well I was specifically talking appearance wise. The rest of the alien society is a separate matter. However even with those 2 I still find betazoids to not really be interesting
Oh.
Betazoids are just fine. Same with Bajorans, El-Aurians, Capellans, Sarpeidonians, to name but a very small examples.
Agree to disagree.
I generally don't care for this site but it gave the most comprehensive list:
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/human-aliens.htm
Oh, it's very popular.
Just not interesting to me, usually. But, there is a long list of human looking aliens. A very long, very bland, list.
Interesting at how many there was there.
Capellans are among my favorites.
All the examples you cited are fully humanoid.
Species 8472, the Tholians, and the Medusans. Those are the best examples of Non-Humanoid Aliens, who are also neither non-corporeal nor artificial. A joined Trill would be the ultimate textbook example of a half-Humanoid.
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Yes. Subspace beaming in that had a theoretical range of several lightyears and was, predictably, dangerous and unstable. DaiMon Bok used multiple probes in the episode to send holographic messages and hidden transporter beams, but his ship was hiding less than a tenth of a lightyear away when he used subspace beaming to kidnap Jason Vigo. All that is a far cry from beaming from Earth to Qo'noS, over a thousand times or more that distance. Honestly, why wouldn't the Klingons or Romulans just beam armies or planet busting bombs to Earth or above it if it were a thing?
There's a cavalier way with distances in Trek, especially since JJ. They're lightyears away and Kirk calls Scotty back on Earth for realtime communication...on his cellphone, that is, his handheld communicator. They warp from Earth to Vulcan in moments, sending the fans scrambling to work out for themselves a feasible explanation. Pike comes to the Discovery to tell them of 7 red bursts that appeared around the galaxy at the same time....how would they possibly know that? Who knows, but the spinny starship with the shroom engine can travel anywhere in the galaxy in a jiffy.
To be fair, they've never been particularly scrutinous regarding travel times, warp speeds and distances when it didn't align with the desired script. It may have gotten worse in modern Trek though, don't know about that.
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