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[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 35 points 11 months ago

Tbf TOS era male Klingons didn't look too different from humans either

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but they worked a little harder.

[-] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 34 points 11 months ago

"I want the male Klingons in black face"

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 points 11 months ago

You couldn't make Star Trek today!

[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 11 months ago

They say, standing among at least three currently airing modern Star Trek shows

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 22 points 11 months ago

The dirty truth is that almost all sci-fi "aliens" look a hell of a lot like humans.

[-] Zellith@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago

Or humans look a lot like sci fi aliens.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago

Clint Howard is still the scariest looking alien ever depicted on TV.

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 7 points 11 months ago

They really didn't give much direction at all on how Klingons should look back then. The actor and makeup artist basically came up with it on the spot.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Depicting_Klingons

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago

Pretty much all Star Trek aliens are just human from the mouth downwards.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

They insist that anything else would be uncanny valley

[-] TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago

Female Klingons are ladies from Dublin, noted. They even share the orange fake tan.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Mimi being Klingon makes a lot of sense now.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 11 months ago

True matriarch of Duras.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 12 points 11 months ago

I always assumed it was a comparison between the West and the USSR. One could swap the populations and few would notice. It was a culture and leadership thing.

In Next Gen the USSR was gone, so they no longer needed that angle.

This is all assumption though.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A lot of people think that's what it was.

That said, TNG started in ~~1997~~ 1987 and the USSR collapsed in 1991.

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago

So you're saying TNG caused the collapse of the Soviet Union?

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah but by '87 the writing was definitely on the wall for the USSR

[-] Gregorech@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

1987, bit of a typo there my guy.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I fixed it.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The Klingons are modeled after Japanese feudal society.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

Trust is super interesting!

[-] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

More eyelashes. More. Okay, I think you’re hearing, “Give me a lot of lashes.” What I mean is GIMMY ALL THE EYELASHES BABY!

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

Lashes you say?

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 11 months ago

Ol' gene knew the cost of rubber in the 60's

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

I don't think that means what you think it means.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago

'Tis a pune

[-] Todesschnitzel@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

This mother does have a flat forehead!

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