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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 7992599" data-attributes="member: 59816">One idea I liked that they used in Disco2 and Picard (that I personally feel is ingenious and much better an idea than bothering with continuity-fixing episodes, even as good as that DS9 one was...) is the use of multiple make-up takes on their Klingons and Romulans. Disco1 redesigned Klingons AGAIN and took a lot of flak for it. In season 2, not only did they "grow their hair" to show that their Klingons weren't quite as weird as they looked, but they also had "other clans" appear that held elements of things like Star Trek 6 (Christopher Plummer's Klingon) and other Klingon designs. Picard had Romulans that looked like Nero from Kelvinverse Star Trek, along with dead-ringers for NextGen Romulans, and others.On top of THAT, they used more real-world diversity in hiring human actors. One of my complaints about Star Trek when I was a kid was "All Star Trek aliens look like good-looking (Hollywood) white people with facial bumps or patterns. There's weirder-looking HUMANS ON EARTH than aliens in Star Trek!" (This was an argument I made as a kid, so please forgive that it's not 100% true and that I may have described human ethnicities as 'weird-looking'.)At any rate, in my mind they are finally using what I would call the best excuse for alien designs changing over time: ... Not all Klingons and Romulans look the same.Using that, they are free to change, tweak, and play with the designs of all their races, all the time. As long as we can tell who they are (which I agree Disco1 Klingons may have gone too far form), in my mind, go ahead and make them look different.</blockquote>

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