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Re: does startrek have less creative aliens?

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Wouter Valentijn wrote on 3/12/21 5:47 am:
> Op 2-12-2021 om 12:49 schreef Daniel65:
>> Wouter Valentijn wrote on 1/12/21 5:46 am:
>>> Op 30-11-2021 om 12:12 schreef Daniel65:
>>>> Wouter Valentijn wrote on 30/11/21 2:31 am:
>>>>> Op 29-11-2021 om 09:57 schreef Daniel65:
>>>>>> Wouter Valentijn wrote on 29/11/21 5:48 pm:
>>>>>>> Op 6-7-2020 om 11:15 schreef Daniel65:
>>>>>>>> subterraneanboogeyman@gmail.com wrote on 6/07/2020 12:17 AM:
>>>>>>>>> some times i wonder if starwars has more creative aliens than
>>>>>>>>> startrek. in starwars, they come in all shapes and sizes. 
>>>>>>>>> startrek,
>>>>>>>>> however, tendds to have humans with barely noticeable face 
>>>>>>>>> markings
>>>>>>>>> and strange rigged growths.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Could it have been a budget thing??
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Star Wars was just a (few) big screen films so given big budgets 
>>>>>>>> whereas Star Trek was (originally) just a T.V. series, so not so 
>>>>>>>> big budgets!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Indeed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Otoh, Star Trek also has the Vorta and the Medusans.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Vorta .... yeah, the big blow was a 'different' aliens, wasn't 
>>>>>> it??
>>>>>
>>>>> Oops. Sorry, meant 'horta'. :-)
>>>>
>>>> Ah!! So your having made a mistake must explain why I made a 
>>>> mistake, too!!
>>>>
>>>> s/"the big blow"/"the big blob"!!
>>>
>>> Okay... blob....
>>> The term makes me think of Armus, who murdered Tasha Yar.
>>>
>>> The Vorta served the Founders.
>>>>
>>>>> "The Devil in the Dark".
>>>>>
>>>>> https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Devil_in_the_Dark_(episode)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Medusans?? I forget!! Must mean its time to get the DVD's out!!
>>>>>
>>>>> "Is There in Truth No Beauty".
>>>>>
>>>>> https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Is_There_in_Truth_No_Beauty%3F_(episode)?so=search 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ah!! When Spock went blind!!
>>>
>>> Spock went blind in 'Operation: Annihilate' when McCoy dosed him with 
>>> light to kill the parasite. And he wasn't actually blind. He merely 
>>> had forgotten about his inner eyelid.
>>>
>>> In ITITNB he went mad Because he looked directly at Kollos without 
>>> that visor. Same thing happened to Larry Marvick.
>>
>> "mad"?? Sorry!! I seem to recall In ITITNB he went blind, not mad, 
>> because he looked directly at Kollos without that visor, but was still 
>> able to get the Enterprise back into (the Galaxy, was it??) but had a 
>> screen installed near his work-station to protect the rest of the 
>> Bridge staff when he opened the box to let Kollos out ..... or 
>> something like that!
> 
> Actually no.
> 
> The only one who was blind was Miranda Jones. Which is why she was safe 
> with Kollos.
> 
> When Larry looked at Kollos unprotected, because he was jealous of his 
> (Kollos) relationship with Miranda with whom he was in love himself, he 
> went mad and somehow put the Enterprise's engines in overdrive which 
> kinda got the ship in another realm, outside the Galaxy.
> It was up to Spock to mind meld with Kollos to navigate the ship back. 
> That plan succeeded and the Enterprise was able to return to normal space.
> After that Spock went back behind the screen on the bridge to end the 
> mind meld, to let Kollos's mind back in the box. But maybe because of 
> the meld Spock/Kollos forgot the visor and after looking straight into 
> the box and Kollos, Spock went mad and fought the Bridge crew.
> Only Miranda Jones using her telepathic power was able to cure Spock. 
> Something she was hesitant to do because in turn she was jealous of 
> Spock being able to meld with Kollos with whom she was in love.
> 
> http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/62.htm
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buFGs1bNcyM
> 
> You see Spock looking straight at Kirk and the rest of the bridge crew 
> from his point of view. Well, obviously the camera's, but you know what 
> I mean. :-)

O.K., I'll let you off with that explanation, Wouter!! ;-)
-- 
Daniel

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    Re: does startrek have less creative aliens? Wouter Valentijn <liam@valentijn.nu> - 2021-11-29 07:48 +0100
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