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Beat me too it
They had it coming, being baby shaped and all.
Nowadays it would all be CGI. But back in the day... They'd put actors through hell with full makeup that would take hours to apply. And if you were really lucky, you got to do that for years and years!
Exhibit A: Doug Jones.
IIRC Virginia Hey, Zhaan in Farscape, kept having to wear that blue body paint 6-8 months a year until she got kidney problems from it and quit the show.
Buddy Ebsen was supposed to be The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz.
It's a crime that Doug Jones has never played The Scarecrow in a live action Batman movie.
And that Christopher Lee never played Alfred.
That reminds me of the rumored casting of Jeff Goldblum as the Scarecrow for what would have been Schumacher's follow-up to Batman and Robin.
What are the odds that someone would play two completely different fish men in Guillermo del Toro movies?
About the same odds of Danny Elfman being the composer for a Tim Burton movie.
Being a composer is a lot less specific than being a fish man, though.
It's more that those two have collaborated at least 5 times: Mimic, Hellboy (1 and 2), Pan's Labyrinth, and The Shape of Water. Basically, no one else was going to be considered for fish boy.
True, true. He's del Toro's Johnny Depp.
I'm not sure about that. I think ST still does it the old fashion way and I've seen it about The Orville in a making off
The Borg one looks like kind of your standard orthotic helmet some babies need, just with a paintjob and some greeblies. I assume the chestpiece and the Naomi Wildman prosthetics weren't too bad either and used some medical grade glue that could be put on quick and cleaned up easily. I have no idea how they got away with the Cardassian baby though, unless they just, like, cast a Cardassian baby.
Same as Wildman for the glued on bits. Colour editing in post for the skin.
LOL I certainly hope so, but have you considered that there is indeed a race of lizard people, possibly even secretly running the earth?
Either way, the idea of doing the whole multi-hour sci-fi prosthetic routine on an infant is certainly unsettling.
have you considered that there is indeed a race of lizard people, possibly even secretly running the earth?
Then they're doing a really shitty job. We should be demanding a higher standard of lizard people.
I bet they used a jaundice baby.
That Borg "baby" is 36 now. Feel old yet?
36 of what, and in which Unimatrix?
Goddamnit
Its their fault for being born
Dad is that you?
It must be nice when these parents unpack their old photo albums and show embarrassing childhood pictures to unsuspecting visitors: "Aww, look at the little guy, such a cute Borg baby" ...
So like, if the baby already has horns so early, giving birth must be painful af. More than it already is.
They do address this in the show, since she's the product of hybrid mating. Very dangerous.
So in a non mixed partnership the vagina is kevlar lined?
Ktarians could have shorter gestation periods and the horns aren't developed before both. Or a thicker skull so they aren't fully erupted. Or maybe Ktarians lay eggs.
Just beam the babies out of the womb. No reason to prolong the process!
Ya know, I'd be down for a Trek kids show, maybe something akin to those mid-90s educational shows or a fun cartoon set in the same time as Lower Decks but actually oriented to kids. I mean, sure Trek doesn't have space magic like certain other IPs but that makes it so much better for something educational, haha.
Isn't that what prodigy is essentially?
Never watched it but it's aimed at kids afaik
Yeah Prodigy is definitely kids-Trek but ultimately it's also kinda forgettable.
I let my young'ns watch a curated selection of Lower Decks - Sans certain episodes - and they love it
How far did you watch into Prodigy? Let’s just say it gradually gets less forgettable - I think it really picks up mid-season 1.
I do love Lower Decks, though.
Prodigy is like (rather good, at least after the first few episodes) Saturday morning adventure kids cartoons. There’s some interesting thematic stuff going on that can inspire kids to kindness, leadership, curiosity, etc., but it’s not explicitly educational in the way something like The Magic Schoolbus is.
Star Trek meets Magic Schoolbus?!?
Star Trek meets Scooby Doo would work actually, there's enough episodes where the premise is "the locals think it's magic but it's just a probe/time shift/alien relic/energy being" etc etc. Starship Mystery Machine
TAS is basically Scooby Doo already
"Please let this be a normal away mission..."
[red-shirt kid gets zapped to death by the educational monster of the week]
Miss Frizzle is definitely a bored Q.
Like Space Cases!