XPost: alt.tv.star-trek, alt.startrek, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   XPost: rec.arts.tv   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 6/28/2017 11:19 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:   
   > droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com wrote:   
   >> Obveeus  wrote:   
   >>> On 6/26/2017 3:30 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   >>>> Obveeus  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>> If you are going to rag on the show as being incompetent for changing   
   >>>>> the look of 'known things', how do you resolve the changes within the   
   >>>>> original cast era (such as the Klingon's face/head)?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> They explained that.   
   >>>   
   >>> Yep...with hand-wavium silliness that negated the simple reality that   
   >>> the Trek film modified the look of the Klingons because the original   
   >>> look was too simplistic and lame for a film.   
   >>   
   >> And yet the Vulcans got a pass.  Aren't all of us humanoids supposed to   
   >> be closely related in Trek anyway?  Seems kind of racist that there   
   >> hasn't been a lot more interbreeding . . .   
   >   
   > Yeah, there was an ep of TNG in which it was established that most of the   
   > humanoids in this galaxy have something encoded in their DNA that produces a   
   > holographic message when reassembled.   
   >   
   > I _HATE_ "magic DNA" eps!   
   >   
   Magic DNA from only about 4 billion years ago IIRC.   
      
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