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You know I was just looking over some of my taped episodes of the lastest season of DS9 and noticed something. The helmets the Breen wear are the exact same helmets Princess Leia wore when she disguised herself as a bounty hunter in ROTJ. So what, is Paramount raiding the LucasFilm sets for props? What next is a Star Destroyer going to start menacing the crew of the Enterprise?
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Between this and the "why is the bridge located on top of the saucer" thread, I am currently confused as to what the current year is.
Never the less, they aren't the "exact same helmet". They are similar, but not the same. Not by a long shot.
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THEY WERE NOT DIFFERENT!!!!
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Well all I can say is, I've glad we've never seen under the helmet - cause anything would be a disappointment. Like seeing underneath the Gaim's helmet on B5.
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Something more mysterious would have been cool. We have to figure in the fact that 'no one has seen a Breen outside their isolation suit'. why they NEED and isolation suit. Why Kira and Dukat could have stolen suits of two Breen and still not been able to see what they look like. Why the Breen homeworld is presumably a cold place (and what they did with Ferenginar's two poles and several icy moons!!
Here is a wild guess... picture Senator Kelly from the X-Men movie... where he eventually turned to water... now picture a breen isolation suit after it's compromised and the scene in the movie where Senator Kelly eventually... 'collapses'.
Some sort of water-creature!! Presumably at low temperatures they feel more comfortable/are more solid!!
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A "water creature"? I am bearish on this idea.
Personally, I think things can work a bit if we modify what it means to have "seen" a Breen. If their environment is really, really cold, when their suits were removed they may have started to sublimate. So, like, Kira and Odo say what a Breen looked like after it had turned to sticky goo and steam.
Though I would be a bit concerned about putting on a suit recently inhabited by very messy remains.
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Hmmm... despite some previous speculation, I think that we can rule out body odor as the reason for the Breens' suits. Because otherwise, both Kira and Dukat would've been incapacitated after removing the helmet. And after her experience in "Indiscretion," I doubt that she would've wanted to try the same trick again in "What You Leave Behind."
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