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You'd think someone that was color blind would have taken precautions to avoid that sort of thing. What was he doing coloring in the first place anyway? I think the Kzin just belong to the "Pride Fleet".
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More on pink: Also consider that aliens and animals see colors outside the spectrum visible to humans. For examples bees see into the UV (or maybe its the IR), so they recognize vivid markings on flowers that appear completely blank to us. (The flowers don't care, of course; they just evolve whatever attracts the bees).
Other species, because of the way their visual systems are connected in their brains, might pay more attention to certain types of visual stimuli, such as dark/light contrast, borders, movement, irregularities in smooth surfaces, etc, with color being unimportant (but still visualized).
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hat;s not to say that pink uniforms don't look silly on screen though. If it was really a practical concern, I'd think the uniform might have some camo effect (changing color to match scenery when activated) and the pink color is the unfortunate color while "deactivated". The Kzin's ability to see into another spectrum would allow them to see their own troops despite the camo effect.
That's as far as I can go to cover a silly mistake and justify a silly alien species.
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Come to think of it, apart from the ears and the tail being dead wrong, how incorrect is that kzinrret? Do they have two beachballs up there, and a narrow waist? According to Niven? According to any of his "M/K Wars" sandbox pals? I can't remember, but this certainly isn't how I visualized the 'rret. This is more like something out of ...uh, the woods.
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Timo, there's a very special spot in hell for you for showing that image to my poor retnias.
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Considering the things I've seen done to kittens in this forum, Bondofox is relatively tame...
...But it's good. Really good. You'll never look at Saturday morning cartoon antropomorphs the same way again. You'll develop an odd compulsion for TAS, too. AND you will want to buy all the "Man/Kzin Wars" books (minus the one with the 'rret on the cover, alas, since that's just a collection of previously published works, albeit rather fun ones - the 'rret comes from one of 'em Dean Ing stories, I think).
I mean, paws up, who *wouldn't* want to see TAS:TNG done with technique like this?
And hold the "it stinks" responses, you furverts. Skunks are *supposed* to stink.
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Skip the tied up part - what sort of a pervert are you? But seriously speaking, I wouldn't mind another animated incarnation of Trek at all. That's basically the only way one could do justice to things like the Kzinti. Anthropomorphic nonhumans is what Trek is mostly about, anyway - but even those are still very expensive to do in a mixture of live action and CGI.
If TAS:TNG had even as much "animation" to its animation as that skunk does, it would be of superior quality to most of the cartoons out there. And certainly superior to the original TAS.
Sure, I'd like to see an animated Trek series, either TOS or TNG/DS9 era. With the animation boom of the last 10 years -- with US made animation and product coming in from Japan -- I'm sure animated Trek has a better chance than in the 1970s of escaping the kidvid ghetto. Filmation was really bottom of the barrel as far as animation quality, so doing better than that wouldn't be that hard.
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But seriously speaking, I wouldn't mind another animated incarnation of Trek at all. That's basically the only way one could do justice to things like the Kzinti. Anthropomorphic nonhumans is what Trek is mostly about, anyway - but even those are still very expensive to do in a mixture of live action and CGI. 
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