• massive_bereavement@fedia.io
      14·
      17 hours ago

      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
        8·
        13 hours ago

        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.

  • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
    55·
    19 hours ago

    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.

    • ripcord@lemmy.world
      13·
      15 hours ago

      But aren’t all the human aliens just humans, like genetically

      And then there’s other really NOT human aliens

      • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialEnglish
        16·
        20 hours ago

        Except the Klingons.

        Edit: canonically Klingons have redundant organs for both survival and reproduction.

        • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works
          14·
          20 hours ago

          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.worldEnglish
          7·
          19 hours ago

          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.worldEnglish
            8·
            19 hours ago

            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.worldEnglish
              6·
              19 hours ago

              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.

  • Thorry@feddit.org
    16·
    17 hours ago

    Red Dwarf: One sexy cat! Mwuaaaaaaaaaw

    roller skates backwards out of the room

  • flandish@lemmy.world
    9·
    17 hours ago

    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
      14·
      16 hours ago

      There was an episode where they briefly showed daleks in Germany and they were shouting it in german lol

    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
      8·
      16 hours ago

      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.

    • ScrooLewse@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      13·
      17 hours ago

      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.socialEnglish
        8·
        16 hours ago

        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.

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
    107·
    20 hours ago

    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.

    • Sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
      3·
      12 hours ago

      I know it’s basically a guy crawling around under a fancy rug, but I love the horta!

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
        4·
        11 hours ago

        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.