Neville Page On “Unsustainable” Original Saru On ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ And Inspiring Future Generations (trekmovie.com)
from ValueSubtracted@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website on 11 Jun 21:46
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SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org on 11 Jun 23:06 collapse

I think the final Kelpien design was the better choice. Sci-fi prosthetics are always awful, and while Saru turned out fairly decent, I doubt this would have had a similar outcome:

<img alt="" src="https://trekmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/multieyesaru-2.jpg">

ValueSubtracted@startrek.website on 11 Jun 23:11 next collapse

But just imagine the “Doug Jones walks into things” gag reel…

Akuchimoya@startrek.website on 13 Jun 19:18 collapse

Forgive me for saying this, but the final Kelpian design looks much, um, tastier than the original one. I can’t imagine Terrans looking at a green and brown multi-eyed triangular headed alien and think “delicacy”.