one of the funniest things about star trek, and one of the most “star trek” things about star trek, is seeing a race of aliens that just look like regular humans, except they have spots, or they have funky little wrinkles on their nose or their forehead, or they have funny ears, or they have weird shit in their hair. but my favorite recurring theme is the one you see mostly in tos and early tng where they did absolutely no alien makeup whatsoever because budget or whatever, but they were like “these guys are aliens and they’re different from humans because the women are dominant over the men” or “these guys are aliens and they’re different from humans because they have no laws and they fuck out in the open.” like. it gets me every time. it’s great. it’s almost as good as the themed planets, like that one planet populated once again by regular humans but everybody there was a mobster.
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