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Spoilers Classic Race All But Confirmed

Vger23

Vger23

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I hate to interrupt all the deep and meaningful discussion about Spock's beard, Klingon hair, Number One's pants and hairstyle, etc....but....

Did nobody see the Trekmovie.com tweet that indicates Kurtzman teased an appearance by the Talosians in S2? And editor Scott Gamzon confirmed but retweeting with "I might be editing this episode right now."

I wonder if maybe the Talosians will HAVE HAIR??!???!? :guffaw:

Discuss...(and commence obligatory accusations of pandering and fanwankery as per usual)!
 
mickmike said:
The Talosians will be played by Betty White, Dame Maggie Smith and Patrick stewart when he dressed up in drag as kellyann conway that one time. Ian Mckellan will do the voices.
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We can only hope.

I wonder how this might all fit together. Organically I hope!
 
I wonder if it will be a flashback scene or some other type of encounter. We know from "The Menagerie " that they have some level of illusion power that transcends lightyears, for example (Sarek katra meld, anyone?).

I love that they might be doing some minor exploration of this race. Always good to re-explore great concepts from TOS!
 
Ricky Spanish said:
Seems like we've become the Talosians, prefer to keep reliving past glories...
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Not even that. Exploiting nostalgia is more like it...

...and the studio is certainly leaning heavily into that, to promote the show now. I assume that when it airs it will really center on the cast introduced last year, and on the Discovery - but you could not tell that from the trailers that have been released thus far. Pike! Number One! The Enterprise! Michael Burnham! Spock! Oh, uh, Tilly! And um...uh... guy from Rent! But but but...Talosians!

Oh, and cute Borg-eyed redhead who suddenly smiles all the time!
 
I wonder if it's really necessary to work the Talosians into the mix... but, at the same time, as it is, it never made sense in "The Menagerie" that the Enterprise's visit in "The Cage" would make Talos IV a planet where visiting it would be a serious enough problem that it would warrant the Death Penalty. Talos IV didn't seem that bad.

But Commodore Mendez or "Commodore Mendez" did say the Penalty was there for reasons even he didn't know. Maybe they explain that here and, in the process, fix a plot hole with "The Menagerie".

If we want to go meta, the Talosians might also be responsible for why we see a 1960s-looking 23rd Century in TOS and a 2010s-looking 23rd Century in DSC. They're making us all see different things depending on which series we watch. I'd love for them to break the fourth wall and actually say that. Of course, I'm like one of only a handful of people who'd actually get a kick out of it. :p
 
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CorporalClegg said:
Nope.
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Their advertising does little else, these days.

The Orville does a lot of smart, entertaining things that made the property into the franchise that it is, and which the current Trek people seem to lack the talent or skill to figure out. If they could, they might not have to back on the Spock/Enterprise show to try to lure in all the fans who haven't bothered with STD so far.

Lord Garth said:
I wonder if it's really necessary to work the Talosians into the mix
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It's probably worth six bucks a head for a month or two from some old Trekkies. Nothing else matters to the studio, now. You're gonna see them trotting out more "unnecessary" shit now than Enterprise resorted to in four years of name-dropping and callbacks.
 
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