1 | !!!Fiction |
2 | ->'''Odo''': There are dozens of species on this station. They tolerate each other's differences very well.\ |
3 | '''Laas''': He has bumps on his forehead. She has a wrinkled nose. But they're basically alike. |
4 | -->--''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "Chimera" |
5 | |
6 | -> "Ugh, she's hideous! Why is her forehead so smooth?" |
7 | -->--'''Jankom Pog''' upon seeing his first human, ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekProdigy'' |
8 | |
9 | ->'''Chel:''' Name one alien that's not pastel colored with big pointy ears.\ |
10 | '''Lexx:''' [[Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial E.T.!]]\ |
11 | '''Chel:''' Sorry, fictional characters don't count. |
12 | -->-- ''Webcomic/AlienDice'' |
13 | |
14 | ->"Mr Barf, it is our duty to respect all aliens and cultures. Don't forget that aliens are just like us, except for a few facial bumps. On screen. ''(pimple-covered alien appears on viewscreen)'' UGH! Some have more bumps than others." |
15 | -->-- '''Captain Pinchard''', ''Sev Trek: Pus in Boots'' |
16 | |
17 | ->Admiral Forrest defended Archer's record. "It's true that Enterprise has run into a few bumps," he said. "But most of them have been on alien foreheads." |
18 | -->-- '''[[http://tv.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600006000 Farce Contact,]]''' a ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' ParodyFic. |
19 | |
20 | ->You know how on ''Star Trek'' the aliens are always just humans with a little nose putty and some bad outfits? But they basically look human and act human and [[AliensSpeakingEnglish speak English?]] Well, [[TokenNonHuman Ax]] [[SubvertedTrope isn't like that]]. You take one look at Ax and [[StarfishAliens you know he isn't from around here]]. |
21 | -->--''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #10: The Android'' |
22 | |
23 | ->(While watching a [[ShowWithinAShow Foxen kaiju movie]].) "Who are those humans in the[[SpaceClothes silver jumpsuits]] with the prosthetic foreheads?" Salli asked. |
24 | -->--''Literature/TheRedVixenAdventures'' |
25 | |
26 | !!!On works |
27 | ->''"Aliens in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' just have different noses. That's because they have a different gene - the [[Creator/GeneRoddenberry Roddenberry]] [[{{Pun}} gene]]!"'' |
28 | -->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''' |
29 | |
30 | ->''"...I had a glued vagina on my face and my hair looked like Bozo, the Clown."'' |
31 | -->--'''Patricia Tallman''' on one of her roles in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', ''Pleasure Thresholds'' |
32 | |
33 | ->(ValleyGirl voice) ''"Ahh, Miss Sirtis, why is it that all the aliens on ''Star Trek'' are humanoid in shape?' To which I responded, well, the minute we start auditioning actors who ''aren't'' humanoid in shape, [[DeadpanSnarker that will change.]]"'' |
34 | -->--'''Marina Sirtis''', ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' feauturette |
35 | |
36 | ->''"We've hired a pretty girl [[RuleOfSexy and I want to keep her that way]]. Think of something that we can take and make her look a little alien, and still get the idea she's from another planet, but she's still gorgeous."'' |
37 | -->-- ''Star Trek'' producer [[http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Bajoran#Background_Information Rick Berman]] to makeup artist Michael Westmore |
38 | |
39 | ->''"Man, they weren't even trying with this one. I don't know if they were running out of latex or what, but boldly going where people look like they're about to go cross-eyed is not my idea of majestic space opera. Coming soon -- aliens with extra-deep upper lip dents."'' |
40 | -->-- Lore Fitzgerald Sjöberg, on [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Bajoran Nose Ridges]]. |
41 | |
42 | ->''"Denubulans are a humanoid species that have peculiar head-ridges that makes their foreheads look like backsides. "'' |
43 | -->--'''''[[http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A6756294 h2g2]]''''' on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' |
44 | |
45 | ->''"[Captain Archer] says that all Tandarans (isn't that a kind of curry?) have a distinctive feature in the middle of their foreheads. So distinctive, in fact, that approximately 75% of all alien races in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' have one."'' |
46 | -->-- '''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''s [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Star_Trek/Enterprise/Two_Days_and_Two_Nights.aspx recap]] of the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "Two Days and Two Nights" |
47 | |
48 | ->''"Guys, why did you give the Andorians a bumpy forehead? Their skin is blue, their hair is white, ''AND'' they have antennae. We don't need a bumpy forehead to know they're aliens! In fact, this does the exact opposite. I didn't look at this guy and say 'Wow, that guy's an alien!', I thought 'Hey, he looks like Colin Mochrie from ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway''!'"'' |
49 | -->-- '''Website/SFDebris''', reviewing the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "The Andorian Incident" |
50 | |
51 | ->''"I think the first thing that went through my head was 'Do I have to wear a head, a mask? What do I have to wear?' And when I found out it was just some nice dots, I was like 'I'm in.'"'' |
52 | -->-- '''Nicole de Boer''', ''Series/EntertainmentTonight'' [[https://youtu.be/q5FM_nwtlmo interview]] on playing Ezri Dax on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. |
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