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Braga vs. Continuity, part 233: "The Understatement of the Century"
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I wouldn't start actively campaigning against the notion that the Andorians looked silly - it might make me look even sillier. I mean, Odd-colored Martians from Venus with Antennae (TM) are among the oldest cliches in visual scifi. Trek didn't have to do them, like it didn't have to redo a Flash Gordon rocketship to create the Enterprise. Yet they are very much part of what Trek represents - using fundamentally silly settings for telling enjoyable (and, every fiftieth episode or so, thought-provoking) stories. I do have one objection to Klingons using warbirds or birds-of-prey or anything even remotely ornithoid. Avian patterns painted on starships were the primary identifying feature of the Romulan race - in fact, basically the *only* such feature known by the 2260s. Having Klingons share this attribute is certainly reasonable and plausible (every flyboy out there ought to have a bird fetish, just as Siegfried says), yet it makes one wonder about the 2260s attitudes towards bird-patterned ships. Romulans were enemies, Klingons were enemies. Romulans flew birdships, Klingons flew birdships. One would assume that the Earthlings would count two plus two together, and openly suspect the Klingons of having fought the Romulan war, of *being* the Romulans. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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