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That explains Akbar's "deep fried" color. Or should I say "golden brown"?
Back to topic.....The Breen rock. That's why I built the (only one I know of)Breen Warship to go with my Dominion fleet. I love that the Universal Translators cannot translate their language. Love their asymectrical ship design. I even like the "never turn you back on a Breen" line....
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Compared to the glory that is Admiral Ackbar though, they are nothing. NOTHING!
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Referring back to something near the beginning of the thread...
"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."
But, we did see a helmetless Gaim in "No Compromise". Unless you're saying you knew that, and thought their appearance was disappointing. If that's the case, I'd disagree. It isn't really the same. The Gaim were never made out to be mysterious. They just couldn't breathe in an Earth-like atmosphere. I'd say the Breen are more like the Vorlons than anything. And we got to see them, too.
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True. Although the mystery of what a Vorlon looked like underneath it's encounter suit was more pivotal to the story of B5 than the Breen's geniune appearence was to DS9.
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That Ackbar is dying to be a CapCom, judged or not.
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"Although the mystery of what a Vorlon looked like underneath it's encounter suit was more pivotal to the story of B5 than the Breen's geniune appearence was to DS9."
Not really. I mean, we knew that they were First Ones w/o ever seeing them. We had an idea that they were noncorporeal (despite Kosh's having a "hand" in the pilot) from seeing Kosh and pseudoKosh go in and out of Lyta's head. And we knew they could look different depending upon who saw them, given Kosh's saving Sheridan and also the two Vorlons posing as Minbari "angels" for Sinclair-as-Valen. So, really, finding out that they look like giant, brightly-colored, transparent squid-things wasn't necessary.
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They were suckers, them dorky Vorlons! If you could go in and out of Leta, would you really do it mentally?!?
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Actually, I think it was a physical transfer. So, they were physically going in and out of her mouth. Which I won't argue with. The eyes, on the other hand, are a little too kinky for my tastes...
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Actually, I was more referring to the whole "angels" part. Which, true enough, wasn't what they "actually" looked like, but it was the identity they were hiding only to reveal at a Shock Cliff Hanger moment.
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quote: But, we did see a helmetless Gaim in "No Compromise". Unless you're saying you knew that, and thought their appearance was disappointing. If that's the case, I'd disagree. It isn't really the same. The Gaim were never made out to be mysterious. They just couldn't breathe in an Earth-like atmosphere. I'd say the Breen are more like the Vorlons than anything. And we got to see them, too.
I'm saying the part about them being dissappointing when we saw them. I think there was more to them just not being able to breath our atmosphere, if that was the case then we would have seen under their helmets/suits i.e. see through helmets. Their bizzare translators gave them an insectoid sound... it was a cool way of being able to do such characters without having to resort to the terribly dodgey N'Grath in the Alien sector from Season 1.
Breen = Vorlons!?! No way... Vorlons wore those suits since they over mellennia had appeared to the various races as characters from their myths/religions. By maintaining the mystique it held power over those races. PLUS we really know they are maid out of energy a la the Kosh I/II battle.
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Okay now, that's just wrong. You don't say "a la the". No. Not acceptable. "La" is one of the french words for "the". So, to quote the mayor's nephew: Say it roight!
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