he's, like, 140 in that picture. the actor John Collins who played him was 71.
Collins is also one of few actors to consistently play the same character in 3 series (TOS, TAS, DS9) and for over 30 years, pretty much right up until he died
At least for humans, skin is an organ. So I am imagining that Klingons have an extra skin somewhere like as a pouch, and when their main skin is too damaged, all of their bones and shit slide into the spare skin.
It is still a matter of debate whether Klingons have two penises or simply have two urethrae in one gigantic penis. We’re just gonna have to see a naked male Klingon to be absolutely sure…
However, since they can easily mate with females of other humanoid species, I think the latter is far more likely. How would two penises even work anyway? Do Klingon women have two vaginas? And how would THAT work?
No, no… Go ahead and get graphic. Draw me a picture and post it.
See, I wouldn’t know, because I do not have sex with women (human or otherwise). And, being a man, I can’t get my second hole down there, as I’m simply not that flexible.
Steven Moffat was so good at that on Doctor Who. Off the top of my head he had monsters that were: statues, an empty library, a crack in the wall, a child wearing a gas mask, pretty much anything that the BBC just had lying around. One episode had a monster that had evolved the perfect ability to hide, so we never even saw it lol.
I love that there's both Assaj Ventress and Savage Oppress.
If I had a nickel for every time there was a Star Wars character with a name that rhymed with Corsage Prom Dress, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.
Fun fact: This is because the writer of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, originally pitched it as a Star Trek series. The studio told him "No, that's stupid. Go away." Then as soon as he was out of the earshot started writing Deep Space 9.
I honestly believe them when they say that they turned him away because they were already deep into DS9. But even if that weren't the case and they did steal the idea, all the way down to naming one of the leaders of an alien race "Dukat", at least we still got Babylon 5, and we also got DS9, which is the best of what I think of as the major Star Trek series.
Well... mostly yes, but there are the real alien aliens too, like the little grey men (Asgard), parasitic worm things (Goa'Uld) or killer nano machine hive minds...
Star Wars .... hyper-stereotypes every racial group on the earth to live in slums or ghettos ... makes white people live in marvellous futuristic cities, lush gardens or beautiful architecture and lead entire galaxies
it always zapped me out of the moment when the robots screaming for extermination had british accents. i reckon i could just assume they translated to local language norma but still.
I think there was something about the TARDIS doing something to people so everything is translated. There was an episode (The Fires of Pompeii) with 10 and Donna where they're in Pompeii and Donna says something in Latin to some Roman guy and he doesn't understand it.
TOS had far more non-human aliens þan later series; it changed likely because of cost, but it makes me a little sad. Even þe human-looking ones were often only camoflaged but had non-human native forms: Catspaw, The Man Trap, By Any Other Name, for example.
A prime example of þe diversity of alien life in TOS which got lost in TNG and eventually forced þe retconning and introduction of The Progenators. All because of budget.
Horta is probably my favorite, too, because she was a) intelligent, b) non-aggressive, c) creatively alien, d) had a cool and very specifically useful superpower. Unlike þe various gods Enterprise was always running into. Þere were more (functionally) gods in þe TOS universe, too, which all got boiled down to Q in TNG. Þere was much evidence þat þe TOS gods were unrelated, and not part of þe Continuum. Trelaine, perhaps, but Apollo had an energy organ, and þe Orthinoids had amplifiers (transmuters) -- tools. Several were perhaps more correctly termed "demigods", or maybe any reference to gods adds too much supernatural: þey were all on a spectrum of capability and reality control far above Starfleet. Practically gods, if not literally.
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sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works · 83 pts · 38d
Star Trek: how alien can we make this actor look for 5 dollars and 32 cents?
_NetNomad@fedia.io · 39 pts · 38d
"this actor" statistically being Jeffrey Combs
EnsignWashout@startrek.website · 25 pts · 38d
But one time it wasn't Jeffery Combs.
Edit: I looked it up - it was Jeffery Combs, that time, too. Nevermind.
hypeerror@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 38d
every sentient species is identical from the clavicles on down.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social · 19 pts · 38d
Except the Klingons.
Edit: canonically Klingons have redundant organs for both survival and reproduction.
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 38d
Well, yes, but actually, no.
The original Klingons in TOS were just people. Beyond that, they're different.
Edit: wait, from the clavicle down they're still the same, even in the new series.
homes@piefed.world · 15 pts · 38d
Kor! The Dahar Master!
grue@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 38d
Man, old age hits Klingons like a truck.
homes@piefed.world · 16 pts · 38d
he's, like, 140 in that picture. the actor John Collins who played him was 71.
Collins is also one of few actors to consistently play the same character in 3 series (TOS, TAS, DS9) and for over 30 years, pretty much right up until he died
grue@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 38d
(It was meant to be a joke about the makeup changes between TOS and DS9, pretending the forehead ridges were extreme wrinkles.)
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
Klingon don't cling on.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social · 6 pts · 38d
Klingons have two of every organ.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 13 pts · 38d
At least for humans, skin is an organ. So I am imagining that Klingons have an extra skin somewhere like as a pouch, and when their main skin is too damaged, all of their bones and shit slide into the spare skin.
homes@piefed.world · 14 pts · 38d
maybe they just have extra layers, making their skin very thick?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 38d
And for surviving reproduction
homes@piefed.world · 8 pts · 38d
It is still a matter of debate whether Klingons have two penises or simply have two urethrae in one gigantic penis. We’re just gonna have to see a naked male Klingon to be absolutely sure…
However, since they can easily mate with females of other humanoid species, I think the latter is far more likely. How would two penises even work anyway? Do Klingon women have two vaginas? And how would THAT work?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 38d
Not to get too graphic, but human women have two holes very close in proximity to each other.
The rest, as they say, is an exercise for the reader.homes@piefed.world · 7 pts · 38d
No, no… Go ahead and get graphic. Draw me a picture and post it.
See, I wouldn’t know, because I do not have sex with women (human or otherwise). And, being a man, I can’t get my second hole down there, as I’m simply not that flexible.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 38d
I think
DPDC Fontana wrote that into the backstoryhomes@piefed.world · 4 pts · 38d
such a sweet old lady ❤️
marlowe221@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 38d
Just ask Riker!
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 38d
Extras with red skin paint and bad wigs.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml · 66 pts · 38d
Steven Moffat was so good at that on Doctor Who. Off the top of my head he had monsters that were: statues, an empty library, a crack in the wall, a child wearing a gas mask, pretty much anything that the BBC just had lying around. One episode had a monster that had evolved the perfect ability to hide, so we never even saw it lol.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 38d
That kid wasn't just wearing the gas mask... it was his FACE! lol
samus12345@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 38d
"Mummy? Are you there, mummy?"
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 38d
That one will stay with me forever
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 38d
Peak genius.
AiricaFyresong@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 37d
Hey! Who turned out the lights!?
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 31 pts · 38d
OMG Glup Shitto is back 😭😭😭
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 16 pts · 38d
My favorite is either Kit Fisto or Elan Sleazebaggano, but I always have a soft spot for Jek Porkins, gone but not forgotten.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 38d
I love that there's both Assaj Ventress and Savage Oppress.
If I had a nickel for every time there was a Star Wars character with a name that rhymed with Corsage Prom Dress, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 20 pts · 38d
Babylon 5..... Just copy and paste that Star Trek one.
ScrooLewse@lemmy.myserv.one · 14 pts · 38d
Fun fact: This is because the writer of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, originally pitched it as a Star Trek series. The studio told him "No, that's stupid. Go away." Then as soon as he was out of the earshot started writing Deep Space 9.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 9 pts · 38d
I honestly believe them when they say that they turned him away because they were already deep into DS9. But even if that weren't the case and they did steal the idea, all the way down to naming one of the leaders of an alien race "Dukat", at least we still got Babylon 5, and we also got DS9, which is the best of what I think of as the major Star Trek series.
homes@piefed.world · 13 pts · 38d
but with crazier hair, weaponized telepathy, and more yelling
Thorry@feddit.org · 6 pts · 38d
Don't forget about the prehensile penis!
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 38d
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 38d
And a fuckload of hair spray
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 38d
Vorlons and Shadows are exempt.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 3 pts · 38d
Also that praying mantis criminal guy. Also, eventually humans.
Thorry@feddit.org · 20 pts · 38d
Red Dwarf: One sexy cat! Mwuaaaaaaaaaw
roller skates backwards out of the room
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 4 pts · 37d
I was hoping to find some Red Dwarf love here.
Aneorthisio@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 37d
Stargate : "We didn't have the budget so they're just humans."
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 37d
The whole Stargate budget went to Teal'cs golden forehead.
Airowird@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 37d
Just enough budget for glowing eyes and a voice modulator, so here are some false gods!
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 38d
That description for Star Trek fits Star Gate as well.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 38d
But aren't all the human aliens just humans, like genetically
And then there's other really NOT human aliens
HieroProtagonist@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 38d
Well... mostly yes, but there are the real alien aliens too, like the little grey men (Asgard), parasitic worm things (Goa'Uld) or killer nano machine hive minds...
ripcord@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 37d
Right thats the thing I said
HieroProtagonist@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 37d
Yeah, sorry, my brain hadn't any coffee and / or alcohol intake before I wrote that answer...
AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 38d
40k and Doctor Who are pretty muchbthe same.
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org · 11 pts · 38d
I never thought about it before, but now that you mention it..... I can't believe I never saw it.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 37d
Star Wars .... hyper-stereotypes every racial group on the earth to live in slums or ghettos ... makes white people live in marvellous futuristic cities, lush gardens or beautiful architecture and lead entire galaxies
usernamefactory@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 37d
“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy”
“Lots of minorities, huh?”
“Now I didn’t say that…”
flandish@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 38d
it always zapped me out of the moment when the robots screaming for extermination had british accents. i reckon i could just assume they translated to local language norma but still.
sirimeow@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 38d
There was an episode where they briefly showed daleks in Germany and they were shouting it in german lol
sundray@lemmus.org · 6 pts · 38d
That's very on-the-nose, eh?
flandish@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 38d
oh. interesting. maybe i should try harder. thanks!
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 38d
Was that an episode or the movie?
sirimeow@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 37d
It was an episode called "Journey's End" iirc. During the tenth doctor era
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 38d
I think there was something about the TARDIS doing something to people so everything is translated. There was an episode (The Fires of Pompeii) with 10 and Donna where they're in Pompeii and Donna says something in Latin to some Roman guy and he doesn't understand it.
Enkrod@feddit.org · 3 pts · 37d
Wing Commander: Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, ThunderCats! Hooo!
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 37d
And then theres Rick and Morty
Sxan@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 38d
TOS had far more non-human aliens þan later series; it changed likely because of cost, but it makes me a little sad. Even þe human-looking ones were often only camoflaged but had non-human native forms: Catspaw, The Man Trap, By Any Other Name, for example.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 38d
The salt vampire is classic. I loved the use of the fade in/out
samus12345@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 38d
Sxan@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 38d
Avant-garde FX!
sundray@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 38d
I know it's basically a guy crawling around under a fancy rug, but I love the horta!
Sxan@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 38d
A prime example of þe diversity of alien life in TOS which got lost in TNG and eventually forced þe retconning and introduction of The Progenators. All because of budget.
Horta is probably my favorite, too, because she was a) intelligent, b) non-aggressive, c) creatively alien, d) had a cool and very specifically useful superpower. Unlike þe various gods Enterprise was always running into. Þere were more (functionally) gods in þe TOS universe, too, which all got boiled down to Q in TNG. Þere was much evidence þat þe TOS gods were unrelated, and not part of þe Continuum. Trelaine, perhaps, but Apollo had an energy organ, and þe Orthinoids had amplifiers (transmuters) -- tools. Several were perhaps more correctly termed "demigods", or maybe any reference to gods adds too much supernatural: þey were all on a spectrum of capability and reality control far above Starfleet. Practically gods, if not literally.