Humans have a wide variety of eyes, noses, ears, and skin colors, yet all are equally human. Most of the Ferengi we’ve seen on a regular basis were members of the same family, so it makes sense they would look alike.
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Not quite as egregiously as comics tho..but yes the point is made
This. I'll monitor production progress and give the first couple episodes a look, but I'm not optimistic by any means. Though I can be wrong, I thought Picard was going to be great and Lower Decks awful, now I feel the exact opposite about both of them.
Plus it's 815 years after the final season of DS9. Ferengi can intermix with other species or tamper with their own genome. For all we know Ferenginar suffers a major ecological or technological disaster (or both) between 2375 and 3190 and that's just how many of them look in that century.
Close enough for government work. They're both works of narrative fiction steeped in continuity. Characters in comics literally change depending on who's drawing them. Costumes get altered. Entire back stories get reinterpreted. All with in continuity.
And a cop show if the late Harlan Ellison's viewpoint circa 1976 has any credence (good guys roam through outer space stopping evil behavior and helping people).
Honestly all I needed was to see was one normal-looking Ferengi and I wouldn't have cared. I can accept all kinds of ridiculous explanations for differences as long as they're acknowledged as different in universe. And Picard just gave me a great looking Ferengi, so whatever, Disco's off the hook as far as I'm concerned.
And if a leaked photo from a Season 2 set of SNW is any hint then we'll also get to give the DSC Season 1 and 2 Klingons a pass since TNG-style and possibly even Augment Klingons may be returning.
To be fair, it was a Riker plan. And Riker was relying on his charm to sell it, and it didn't work on Shaw.
It was all in-character.
Comparing it to different versions of Hamlet is a false equivalency
All those versions of Hamlet aren't supposed to exist in the same cohesive timeline.
With all forms of fiction, it best to remember that there is going to be some artistic flair added depending on who is working on it. Something like Trek has artists working on the makeup effects, props, and digital effects who while trying to honor what came before also want to add their own distinctive elements. It’s just more noticeable now because TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT were made by the same people and reused a lot of elements to save money.
I mean, even the Trandoshans in the Disney+ streaming series have more articulated, CGI faces than the old Bossk mask from 1980 and 1983. Exact same species. Same look. Just updated so the mouths and eyes can move more(or even at all). That's how I look at adding aztecing and other hull details to a TOS Era Connie like the Defiant or the New Jersey.
As in "Riker is known to be drunkenly stupid and high on airplane glue at all times and Picard is a mindless robot follower?"
Because that's not how I remember the characters.
To be fair, that plot point like so much on Picard is just bullshit. If you like, you can go right ahead and hold Trek shows you dislike the premise of to standards that the shows you promote can't meet, but it's pretty easy to see through.
And 11 of those 12 are from the Prime Timeline.
THERE ARE FOUR KLINGON TYPES.Look at all these Universes.
Bad and dishonorable, somewhat honorable but still kinda criminal in behavior, good but not terrible honorable and skirting tradtion and then the types who obsess over honor and duty and their cultural upbringing.
Picards been a mindless follower for the last two seasons of this show. He only grew a backbone a few episodes into this season.
And Riker has tried to use charm to his advantage before.
Albeit, not so successfully there either.
Then you have Worf, who is a terrible father. So bad that if you told him that he ask how could he be since he doesn’t have a kid.
Whale swallowed the cloaking device.
Yeah, I was wondering what Finn meant here. If you're thinking of
Picard 306, I'm pretty certain Seven meant The Bounty disappeared, not the whales.
Take that back! I refuse to believe this.
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