"Redesigning Klingons and Making New Aliens..." Topic

…. WITH STAR TREK: DISCOVERY'S SFX MAKEUP TEAM.

"Special effects makeup expert Glenn Hetrick was working at Alchemy FX when he got an email with the word "Klingon" on it and almost lost his mind. He was being asked to help with the Star Trek: Discovery's alien designs, and none of them got him more excited than the prospect of being able to work on the evolution of the warrior race from the planet Qo'noS. ("I'll never delete that email," he said.)

Overflowing with ideas, he went right to work on a potential Klingon look with his fellow creature-designer Neville Page, using Page's own head for the prototype. (Page being bald helped). "At first, we went, 'This is really cool,'" Hetrick said. "But it felt incomplete. What are we going to do, show him wearing this in a black T-shirt?"

So the two men then decided to go ahead and spend "an obscene amount of money" creating something they hadn't yet been asked to do: creating 3-D-printed Biomech armor for Page to model in his Klingon-test debut. Then they borrowed Charlie Chaplin's speech from The Great Dictator, translated it into Klingon, and embedded the writing on the armor. "When [the producers] showed up for the camera test, we presented Neville as a Klingon from head to toe," Hetrick said, recalling the moment with pride. "He was completely covered, and it was awesome."…."
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Armand

Why do they keep messing with the way the Klingons look? Haven't they done enough confusing things to that race?

Dan

The different houses of Klingons have different looks.

I only saw the first (free) episode of STD, so my memory is hazy, but the Klingons all looked fat to me (could have been the wardrobe that made them look that way, but then again, it was probably covering how fat they were…)

So now,we know who to blame for the crappy redesign of the Klingons. Had they been an entirely new species, I would have been impressed, but these new designs just are not Klingons. Now tell us who to blame for the exceptionally poor new Klingon ship designs.

Glup!….

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Armand

I personally wouldn't want to admit I was guilty of warcrimes, but apparently the makeup department of discovery is proud of it. Kinda like Nazis on trial were proud even though they knew it would lead to their death.

Eeewww… comparing Discovery's effects team to Nazis? That's not fair to the Nazis!