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[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 35 points 2 years ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but they worked a little harder.

[-] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 years ago

"I want the male Klingons in black face"

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 points 2 years ago

You couldn't make Star Trek today!

[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago

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

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Zellith@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

Or humans look a lot like sci fi aliens.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago

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

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 7 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

They insist that anything else would be uncanny valley

[-] TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago

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

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Mimi being Klingon makes a lot of sense now.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

True matriarch of Duras.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 12 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Gregorech@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

1987, bit of a typo there my guy.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I fixed it.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The Klingons are modeled after Japanese feudal society.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Trust is super interesting!

[-] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Lashes you say?

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 2 years ago

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

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago

'Tis a pune

[-] Todesschnitzel@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

This mother does have a flat forehead!

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