Stargate : "We didn't have the budget so they're just humans."
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The whole Stargate budget went to Teal'cs golden forehead.
Just enough budget for glowing eyes and a voice modulator, so here are some false gods!
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
“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy”
“Lots of minorities, huh?”
“Now I didn’t say that…”
And then theres Rick and Morty
Wing Commander: Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, ThunderCats! Hooo!
Star Trek: how alien can we make this actor look for 5 dollars and 32 cents?
"this actor" statistically being Jeffrey Combs
But one time it wasn't Jeffery Combs.
Edit: I looked it up - it was Jeffery Combs, that time, too. Nevermind.
every sentient species is identical from the clavicles on down.
Except the Klingons.
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.
Kor! The Dahar Master!
Man, old age hits Klingons like a truck.
Klingon don't cling on.
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
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And for surviving reproduction
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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.
Hey! Who turned out the lights!?
That kid wasn't just wearing the gas mask... it was his FACE! lol
"Mummy? Are you there, mummy?"
That one will stay with me forever
One episode had a monster that had evolved the perfect ability to hide, so we never even saw it lol.
Peak genius.
OMG Glup Shitto is back 😭😭😭
My favorite is either Kit Fisto or Elan Sleazebaggano, but I always have a soft spot for Jek Porkins, gone but not forgotten.
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.
Red Dwarf: One sexy cat! Mwuaaaaaaaaaw
roller skates backwards out of the room
I was hoping to find some Red Dwarf love here.
Babylon 5..... Just copy and paste that Star Trek one.
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.
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That description for Star Trek fits Star Gate as well.
But aren't all the human aliens just humans, like genetically
And then there's other really NOT human aliens
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...
Right thats the thing I said
Yeah, sorry, my brain hadn't any coffee and / or alcohol intake before I wrote that answer...
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.
There was an episode where they briefly showed daleks in Germany and they were shouting it in german lol
That's very on-the-nose, eh?
oh. interesting. maybe i should try harder. thanks!
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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.
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