I don't understand how.
New Species Revamps on DSC?
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I've made this point before too. Basically the Cardassians and Romulans were the same race. Antagonistic, brutal, manipulative, and totalitarian. Both even had different all-powerful spy corps. Deep Space Nine could have been about the Bajorans recovering from the Romulan occupation and it wouldn't have been any different at all.
I was talking about the Vulcans.
This is because this was the initial premise. It WAS supposed to be Romulans, but they thought Romulans overused so they made up the Cardassians as a stand in. (back in TNG though)
Can I get a Caitian up in this mutha or wut?
Or a Kzin. (VERY IMPORTANT GRAMMAR NOTE: NOT "A KZINTI"!)
-MMoM
Or a Kzin. (VERY IMPORTANT GRAMMAR NOTE: NOT "A KZINTI"!)
-MMoM
Overused??????
Really? I've never heard of this but it would explain a lot.
All powerful spy corps that were willing to work together no less. So, the same hair cuts make sense.
As for the OP, why not the Deltans? I mean, we hardly know anything about them, save for being bald, so why not explore them as aliens more?
Also, I like looking at background TOS/TMP aliens and having more of them, like the Acturians (Similar to the Saurians and were in the background of TMP), or the Naussicans, since they appeared in ENT.
^ I'd love for them to do the Deltans, but only if they really went all out with their sexually "mature" background. I'm thinking something further out there than pansexual(?) Captain Jack Harkness. But I doubt CBS, of all entities, would do them justice.
The Romulans are off the table in my house because I really see going there as lazy. They're my favorite species, but it'd really be something else if we didn't see them until "Balance of Terror."
That said, I don't mind thinking the Romulans always looked like they did on TNG, but you could also think of TOS Romulans as being the old Imperial variety that came over from Vulcan and the TNG ones being a mix of Romulans and the original natives of the planet Romulus that they immigrated to. Or of the Remans, if we have to include the [idiotic] "space-Nosferatu" from NEM. It'd actually be interesting to see different types of Romulans, some more mixed than others. You could have more ridges and contact lenses and skin tones and whatnot.
Also, I didn't mind the Romulans on TNG. They were actually different from the Cardassians initially, who seemed more like oily Nazis than arch Romans. But that changed as DS9 went on and the Cardassians became more Roman-like and the Romulans became more gray and emotionless.
The Romulans are off the table in my house because I really see going there as lazy. They're my favorite species, but it'd really be something else if we didn't see them until "Balance of Terror."
That said, I don't mind thinking the Romulans always looked like they did on TNG, but you could also think of TOS Romulans as being the old Imperial variety that came over from Vulcan and the TNG ones being a mix of Romulans and the original natives of the planet Romulus that they immigrated to. Or of the Remans, if we have to include the [idiotic] "space-Nosferatu" from NEM. It'd actually be interesting to see different types of Romulans, some more mixed than others. You could have more ridges and contact lenses and skin tones and whatnot.
Also, I didn't mind the Romulans on TNG. They were actually different from the Cardassians initially, who seemed more like oily Nazis than arch Romans. But that changed as DS9 went on and the Cardassians became more Roman-like and the Romulans became more gray and emotionless.
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Only if "they" do something interesting with the Romulans, which Star Trek hasn't alway done. If it's just more of the same I personally would prefer that the the Romulans basically disappeared.
The little people briefly seen in Journey to Babel, let's flesh them out.
Obviously fake news.
That's unfortunate. It would have rocked if it were the Romulans.
While the Cardassians replaced the Romulans in the early scripts for 'Ensign Ro', they were not created for that specific purpose, as they already existed since 'The Wounded' a season before.
The Cardassians were not originally part of DS9 either, in fact they didn't even have a race in mind at the very start, so they didn't replace the Romulans there.
The Cardassians were not originally part of DS9 either, in fact they didn't even have a race in mind at the very start, so they didn't replace the Romulans there.
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Well, the really early concepts were mostly about having a father-son relationship as central to the show. My guess is the decision to make the station right by Bajor, and hence involve the Cardassians, came from the desire to get Michelle Forbes to come on the show as Ro Laren. When she refused her role was of course rewritten as Kira (which, as much as I like Forbes, was for the best), but the Cardassians and the Bajorans had become integral to the show.
You know I never saw it this way. Now I can never un-see it. Cool.
It's not true, though - it definitely would have been different. Even if they were considered interchangeable for purposes of the show's premise, it wouldn't have been long before the differences in the characters of the respective empires and their histories in Trek would have shown up in writing, direction, actor and acting choices, etc. The butterflies would have done their job - it would have been a very different show. The most obvious difference that occurs to me right away is that they might have brought Tomalak (Andreas Katsulas) in as the big bad. He's a good actor, and I'm sure it would have been fine - but can you imagine DS9 without Dukat (Marc Alaimo)? The next is that I'm almost certain our "simple Romulan tailor" would have been played very differently, too...
Bem's people from the animated episode "BEM"
As long as they keep in mind that the Pandronians were a "recently-contacted" species that weren't members of the Federation, and that their colonial nature seemed to come as a total surprise to Kirk and company...then sure!
-MMoM
