So I just really watched the new preview for Disco and I saw the sick sneezing alien can we please get him added to the game. Maybe with a sneeze attack lol but serious I would like to have that alien as a boff
I'm fine with the look, but.....
Wish the eyes were more.....alive. I'd like some sorta things like the TMP one, but animated, and all that. The eyes can often tell you of someone, even more than their words.
Smoke, you don't smile at a chimp because in their body language, that's a prelude to an attack. For dogs, you're challenging their pack status, and if that dog's not part of your pack, it might feel that it needs to defend its place. Your "friendly" expression is a threat to them - and they share your evolutionary background. An alien is not, realistically, going to have expressions you can read, and your attempts to read them will be wrong.
I'm put in mind of a James Blish short, "War Memorial" (set in the same universe as his Sector General tales, but much earlier). The war between Earth and Orligia has been going on for some time, but it wasn't until one surviving human and one surviving Orligian wound up mortally injured and in the wreckage of an Orligian craft that they were able to communicate enough to find out why the war had started (the Orligians had recently developed a sort of mildly-telepathic communication device, which would later be the basis for the Translator). Orligians, you see, tend to ship out in large family units, as their culture requires the children to be cared for on a continuous basis; they're really uncomfortable leaving the kids at home. They also run about four to five feet tall, covered with black and white fur, and with rounded ears atop their heads, much like pandas. And their homeworld also includes a primate-analog predator, similar in appearance to a human, and just intelligent enough to know to lurk at the edge of forests and try to lure young Orligians into the woods to be killed and eaten. So, when they encountered their first Earth starship, they worked to control their fear and disgust at these creatures...
...and then the human captain tried to kiss a baby.
Imagine that you're on a ship with children aboard, and you encounter a ship manned by huge cockroaches, taller than a man and walking on their hindmost pair of legs. And imagine that one of them grabs a child and begins lifting the poor kid to its mandibles. You might be forgiven for reacting with a moment of surprise.
Overcome with shock and revulsion, the Orligians killed all the "predators" aboard the human ship. Then, realizing what they'd done, they fled in shame. A small scout craft returning to the mothership found records of what had happened, but not the Orligians' reasoning, so to them it appeared that these vicious creatures had come aboard, killed everyone for no apparent reason, then left. So of course the next time a human ship found an Orligian ship, they struck first - and thus a war was born, because one species mistook what another species meant by what the second species thought was a harmless action.
Smoke, you don't smile at a chimp because in their body language, that's a prelude to an attack. For dogs, you're challenging their pack status, and if that dog's not part of your pack, it might feel that it needs to defend its place. Your "friendly" expression is a threat to them - and they share your evolutionary background. An alien is not, realistically, going to have expressions you can read, and your attempts to read them will be wrong.
^ This. Remember how the Earth Force ship reacted when the Minbari approached them with gun ports open during their first contact on B5?
That captain lost his nerve and presumed hostility from the Minbari and we know where that led. The Earth Alliance were told not to bother the Minbari and they ignored that sound advice.
"The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
That captain lost his nerve and presumed hostility from the Minbari and we know where that led. The Earth Alliance were told not to bother the Minbari and they ignored that sound advice.
Actually that captain was a bit paranoid. Sheridan, when asked if he would join that expedition, actually objected over the captain of the Prometheus for that reason.
Also Londo relented a bit and suggested only sending one ship. Obviously Earthforce was a bit cocky after the Dilgar War.
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Looking forward to seeing a modern take on a Saurian, is the make up to the same standard as the Saru make up though?
"The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
Smoke, you don't smile at a chimp because in their body language, that's a prelude to an attack. For dogs, you're challenging their pack status, and if that dog's not part of your pack, it might feel that it needs to defend its place. Your "friendly" expression is a threat to them - and they share your evolutionary background. An alien is not, realistically, going to have expressions you can read, and your attempts to read them will be wrong.
^ This. Remember how the Earth Force ship reacted when the Minbari approached them with gun ports open during their first contact on B5?
That captain lost his nerve and presumed hostility from the Minbari and we know where that led. The Earth Alliance were told not to bother the Minbari and they ignored that sound advice.
Totally beside the point. Which was that 'open gun ports' to the Minbari were a welcoming gesture, whereas the Earth Force ship saw it as them getting ready to attack.
As if Toothless wasn't designed to be decipherable, come on man.
Also a non-verbal character from a children's movie whose story requires the audience to understand him does not equal an alien.
Was kinda pointing out how human expressions don't quite translate on a non-human. Toothless struggled to smile. As that was his first attempt... didn't quite go so well.
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I'm fine with the look, but.....
Wish the eyes were more.....alive. I'd like some sorta things like the TMP one, but animated, and all that. The eyes can often tell you of someone, even more than their words.
Who says it's human?
Or, maybe the alien could be more right than a human?
I'm put in mind of a James Blish short, "War Memorial" (set in the same universe as his Sector General tales, but much earlier). The war between Earth and Orligia has been going on for some time, but it wasn't until one surviving human and one surviving Orligian wound up mortally injured and in the wreckage of an Orligian craft that they were able to communicate enough to find out why the war had started (the Orligians had recently developed a sort of mildly-telepathic communication device, which would later be the basis for the Translator). Orligians, you see, tend to ship out in large family units, as their culture requires the children to be cared for on a continuous basis; they're really uncomfortable leaving the kids at home. They also run about four to five feet tall, covered with black and white fur, and with rounded ears atop their heads, much like pandas. And their homeworld also includes a primate-analog predator, similar in appearance to a human, and just intelligent enough to know to lurk at the edge of forests and try to lure young Orligians into the woods to be killed and eaten. So, when they encountered their first Earth starship, they worked to control their fear and disgust at these creatures...
...and then the human captain tried to kiss a baby.
Imagine that you're on a ship with children aboard, and you encounter a ship manned by huge cockroaches, taller than a man and walking on their hindmost pair of legs. And imagine that one of them grabs a child and begins lifting the poor kid to its mandibles. You might be forgiven for reacting with a moment of surprise.
Overcome with shock and revulsion, the Orligians killed all the "predators" aboard the human ship. Then, realizing what they'd done, they fled in shame. A small scout craft returning to the mothership found records of what had happened, but not the Orligians' reasoning, so to them it appeared that these vicious creatures had come aboard, killed everyone for no apparent reason, then left. So of course the next time a human ship found an Orligian ship, they struck first - and thus a war was born, because one species mistook what another species meant by what the second species thought was a harmless action.
That captain lost his nerve and presumed hostility from the Minbari and we know where that led. The Earth Alliance were told not to bother the Minbari and they ignored that sound advice.
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
Actually that captain was a bit paranoid. Sheridan, when asked if he would join that expedition, actually objected over the captain of the Prometheus for that reason.
Also Londo relented a bit and suggested only sending one ship. Obviously Earthforce was a bit cocky after the Dilgar War.
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Totally beside the point. Which was that 'open gun ports' to the Minbari were a welcoming gesture, whereas the Earth Force ship saw it as them getting ready to attack.
Was kinda pointing out how human expressions don't quite translate on a non-human. Toothless struggled to smile. As that was his first attempt... didn't quite go so well.