Star Trek Beyond
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Obviously acceptable losses.
Solo4114
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Wait, I thought that the half-romulan thing was basically the whole ST:VI thing, and that the Vulcan Kim Cattrall character was supposed to be Saavik, but none of the actresses who'd played her would return to play the role again, so they changed Saavik to some other character and had Cattrall play her.
KrangPrime
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From the trek memory alpha, first link I could find...
>T'Pol was also to have been revealed to be half-Romulan if ENT had gotten a fifth season.>>>
I remember seeing it in an extra somewhere I think.
robn1
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Saavik in TWOK was meant to be half Romulan, but there was noting in the movie to suggest it. Most of the back story was dropped from the script, anything that may have been left was deleted.
Valeris in TUC is a full Vulcan. She was originally written as Saavik, but Meyer wanted Kirstie Alley to return to the role, when she refused he just changed her to a new character.
Riceball
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I wonder how that would have worked since in TNG they gave Romulans bumpy foreheads and T'Pol had a perfectly smooth forehead, so if she was supposed to be half-Romulan wouldn't she have had at least a semi-bumpy forehead?
KrangPrime
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surgery?
A good reminder that Trek movies have kind of always been a bit of a mess.
I actually don't see the new ones as any worse, it's just that we're (thankfully) in a very different movie making age now, and we've come to expect a lot more from tent pole sci fi movies.
Riceball
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That could be it, plastic surgery in the Trek verse is pretty amazing, you can surgically alter someone to appear as a member of a completely different race and change them back to their original appearance with no side effects.
Zombie_61
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Meh. Klingons went from looking like beatniks in the original series to having heavily ridged foreheads in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and everything after that. If T'Pol was supposed to have been half Romulan they would have just come up with another phony baloney explanation like they did with the Klingons. "Hey, remember that virus that made the Klingons' foreheads smooth? It turns out that Romulans are susceptible to the same virus." :rolleyes
or visible scar tissue, all within the magical 45 minute episode limit :lol
Apparently they don't have make-up in the post-WWIII future :unsure
Riceball
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The problem with makeup is that most makeup won't hold to close scrutiny, sure it looks good on camera or from 20 feet away but up close and personal makeup is going to look like makeup. Of course, with warp drive and transporter technology they probably would have some sort of advanced prosthesis to make people looks like aliens, but I'd think that would mostly only work on humans and making them look alien and not vice versa. There's no way that you could use makeup to make a Cardassian look human, or a Klingon, or even a Vulcan. Obviously their surgical techniques can but you'd think that any surgery that involves removing forehead bumps, pointy ears, or shoulder ridges would be permanent and irreversible unless it's some sort of advanced techniques using DNA to turn certain physical features on and off, so to speak, and make them appear different.
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Please state the nature of the medical emergency.
This man needs some eyeliner, stat!
Weird how that works, you can turn a human into a Kardashian, sorry, I mean Cardassian :lol but you can't turn a Cardassian into a human using only make-up - weeeiiiird
firesprite
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Well, this looks better than the first trailer... but I'm still not entirely sold
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Is anyone else noticing the pattern repetition here? Each of these new movies is mirroring some aspect of their original counterparts.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek (2009) - New and largely untested starship faces off against a massive alien ship with a surprisingly familiar crew.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek: Into Darkness - Both movies pit Kirk against Khan Noonien Singh, who has hijacked a Federation ship and is hell bent on vengeance. In both films, a major character dies.
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek: Beyond - Both movies seemingly have Kirk and crew stealing a starship for whatever reason (at least that's kind of the impression I got) and have the Enterprise get destroyed.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek (2009) - New and largely untested starship faces off against a massive alien ship with a surprisingly familiar crew.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek: Into Darkness - Both movies pit Kirk against Khan Noonien Singh, who has hijacked a Federation ship and is hell bent on vengeance. In both films, a major character dies.
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek: Beyond - Both movies seemingly have Kirk and crew stealing a starship for whatever reason (at least that's kind of the impression I got) and have the Enterprise get destroyed.
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