I wouldn't want to be twelve feet tall, but the wings sound pretty cool.
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I wouldn't want to be twelve feet tall, but the wings sound pretty cool.
Has everybody completely forgotten the Terratins?
BTW, Re: Keenser, the actor's stage name, "Deep Roy," is short for Gurdeep Roy. And his filmography is rather impressive.
BTW, Re: Keenser, the actor's stage name, "Deep Roy," is short for Gurdeep Roy. And his filmography is rather impressive.
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I think one problem is that most starships--especially our hero ships--aren't really designed with LP in mind. Most consoles are waist-high for people of average height (and wall-mounted controls are usually even higher). It seems like most starships are designed around a baseline humanoid height and don't take into account anyone shorter than that.
Conversely, Balok's ship, the Fesarius, was designed with very short people in mind, but that was way back in TOS.
Conversely, Balok's ship, the Fesarius, was designed with very short people in mind, but that was way back in TOS.
Granted it is limits of set design, but this always seemed odd to me. The Federation has hundreds of worlds and Starfleet might have just as many species. But on all the starships we see are designed around normal sized humans without any disabilities. Temperature, gravity, pressure, atmosphere, light, room dimensions and heights are all set for that. It's little wonder that on all the ships we see humans are the supermajority, and of those who aren't, are really just humans with different markings/bumps on their heads and silly hairdos since that is all who are accommodated on our Hero Ship designs.
My headcanon, for species outside the 'norm', they are concentrated on other vessels that we simply don't see. We know from TOS with the Intrepid that there is at least a ship full of Vulcans. And Solok's crew from DS9 seems to solidify this. So it would make sense for ships out there to be made accomodate species 1 meter and under (we don't see them before our heroes would have to crawl through those interiors). Or ships that have completely brighter interiors, or the gravity cranked up etc. The Federation and Starfleet is as inclusive as possible, but that has to give way to biology. A majority of officers will serve on the ship where do not have to wear eye protection or lug around life support equipment
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He also played murderous cybernetic doll Mr Sin in classic Doctor Who serial "The Talons of Weng-Chiang".
There's a fun making-of documentary on one of the DVDs where we can watch a very young Deep Roy play foosball with Tom Baker.
I can't really add too much to that.
ST plays safe and drops the ball repeatedly when it comes to humanity using the eugenics wars, but in a future where you might want to bioform as much or more than terraform, there might be a lot of environments where sizing the species down would have a lot of benefits. This isn't really new to spaceflight, either.
They weren't exactly putting America's tallest in those early Mercury capsules. There's a reason they called Geminithe Gusmobile. Gus Grissom was about the only one who could fit comfotably in it. Earlier in the fifties it had been seriously discussed to use double-leg amputee veterans who could no longer fly jets but would make good astronauts. There was an assumption that people in space wouldn't need to use their legs anyway.. soo..
I'm reminded of Melora Pazlar from the DS9 episode that bears her first name. Apparently most spacefaring species come from planets with gravity levels similar to that of Earth, so the "standard" environment in Starfleet facilities caused difficulties for those from planets with low gravity.
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I just remembered, Jankom Pog is legit 3 feet tall.
Absolutely, Peter Dinklage would be good as a starfleet captain.
On a lighter note, both Shatner and Dinklage have hosted SNL.
I can't really add too much to that.
Me either. It summed it up nicely.
Not me. T'Pol's outfit in "Enterprise" was immersion-breaking, especially since Vulcans normally wear those robe like garments.
Both these gentlemen (Billy Curtis and Jerry Maren) played Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.Well, there were these guys.
(From TOS: Journey to Babel). Never saw them in Starfleet, but they are, presumably, Federation members, so they're probably represented.
Well, in a world where you can be a human, then be part spider, then get turned back into a human again, "curing" a genetic defect of dwarfism seems small effort. ( seems wrong to say Cure.. it says somethings wrong with them, which technically yes there is but there still humans)
Could have a work around as coming from a colony with heavier than earth standard gravity, or from a colony with not the best medical tech, so it could work, and I would honestly love to see LP get more work in hollywood, and not just CGI regular people to play little people, or just CGI period ( looking at you marvel!!!)
Would also love to see other than "Normal" body types, not every woman is 5'6' and slim, nor are every guy 6' and muscular. Show a woman thats 6'5" or a muscular woman like Gina Caranno. show a short guy that has early balding. basically show "Humanity" not a so called perfected version.
Could have a work around as coming from a colony with heavier than earth standard gravity, or from a colony with not the best medical tech, so it could work, and I would honestly love to see LP get more work in hollywood, and not just CGI regular people to play little people, or just CGI period ( looking at you marvel!!!)
Would also love to see other than "Normal" body types, not every woman is 5'6' and slim, nor are every guy 6' and muscular. Show a woman thats 6'5" or a muscular woman like Gina Caranno. show a short guy that has early balding. basically show "Humanity" not a so called perfected version.
Star Trek: Seinfeld
had to, as George Costanza immediately came to mind from short balding guy. In seriousness though, I don't disagree with you
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