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That always bothered me about Star Trek. You have a multi-racial, multi-cultural human spaceship, but alien species seem to all be the same culture/race.
by jinushaun 12y ago
That always bothered me about Star Trek. You have a multi-racial, multi-cultural human spaceship, but alien species seem to all be the same culture/race.
- krapp 12y agoBut to be fair - that's mostly because makeup and creature design costs money, and you only have so much time to tell a story with characters which will probably never appear onscreen again. The Klingons are one really good example - they were always supposed to have the ridges IIRC but all the original series could even afford was brown makeup and evil looking mustaches. They also reused mattes of alien cities all the time. They're also a good counterexample as they're supposed to be an advanced, warp-capable civilization but apparently they're all psychotic blood-knights who just happen to have spaceships.