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ST canon is inconsistent and contradictory.

The only real way to get around it is to spend more time among those cultures, like seasons at a time fleshing them out. Honestly, there is no particular Trek culture that I care enough about to follow something like that.
..except for Vulcans..
 
Yeah maybe, to be honest they don't need to explain any alien ethnic differences, do the humans going around telling aliens we come in various shades of brown?

Question of the day: if you are conceived in the Romulan northern hemisphere, but are born and raised in the southern hemisphere, do you have ridges? :rofl:
 
3 pale Klingons out of billions does not represent all Klingons.
Did Kirk, McCoy and Scotty, 3 white guys, represent what every human looked like?
Why in the galaxy did they put three actors that were previously portrayed with smooth foreheads in TOS into ridged forehead costumes for DS9? I don't think Klingons are diverse in appearance at least as it goes for head ridges. We see in every Trek era that there are no cases of both smooth foreheads and ridged forehead Klingons serving along side each other.
 
Why in the galaxy did they put three actors that were previously portrayed with smooth foreheads in TOS into ridged forehead costumes for DS9? I don't think Klingons are diverse in appearance at least as it goes for head ridges. We see in every Trek era that there are no cases of both smooth foreheads and ridged forehead Klingons serving along side each other.
I belong to the 'ridges were always there' camp lol
The ENT explanation was not needed
 
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"The only wrinkle to that is Bashier's comment "those are Klingons?" in surprise."

Imagine if in ENT every single human on the ship looked liked Archer (Europeans) and years later Shran ('pinksins)' met humans who looked liked Sato and Mayweather and exclaiming 'Those are humans? Since all Andorians seem to be blue , they do not have a diverse culture (until the Aenar showed up).
Humans are diverse in skin tone, hair texture, nose bridge size, lips and eyelid shape.
Klingons can be diverse in appearance, in ridges, skin tone and other features.
Trek's monolithic culture of nonhumans is a bit annoying for the likes of me.

Not all Andorians are blue. We've seen dark green/brown (TNG) and "pinkskin" (Thelin) Andorians in various productions, as well as several different types of antennae, antennae placement, length, and movement.
 
Not all Andorians are blue. We've seen dark green/brown (TNG) and "pinkskin" (Thelin) Andorians in various productions, as well as several different types of antennae, antennae placement, length, and movement.
Which episodes? According to Memory Alpha and Beta they are blue skinned species
 
Though the hologram in "The Offspring" was flushed all over with green light, so the colours weren't really discernible. I could swear I even read once that they gave that Andorian darker makeup so that it would look blue with the light they flushed over him? But that might just have been somebody's guess.

Plus that was the worst looking Andorian ever to appear on Star Trek. Far, far worse than the ones appearing in TOS. I don't know how a 80s show can have worse makeup effects than a 90s one, but they managed.
Really the Andorians on TOS looked quite good, so I'm not sure why they didn't just replicate that makeup instead of that bulb-headed caricature.
 

Yeah, but it caused by Green light. If you allow for that, she could be blue under it.

And yeah, I just looked it up, she's supposed to be an Andorian woman. Yet she lacks breasts, while other Andorian women have them. Combine that with the silly, bulbous head and I'm not sure how serious we are to take her when talking about how Andorians look.
That being said I perosnally would have no problem with the idea that some Andorians have blue-green skin, or even green.
 
Yeah, but it caused by Green light. If you allow for that, she could be blue under it.

I think she's green, likely because she's in front of a blue screen for the phasing in and out effects of the Holodeck. There's no shadows being projected in any direction around her. Which should be there is she's being bathed in light.
 
I think she's green, likely because she's in front of a blue screen for the phasing in and out effects of the Holodeck. There's no shadows being projected in any direction around her. Which should be there is she's being bathed in light.

Riiiiiiight! That was what I was remembering! Forgot that they used Blue Screens!
 
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