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For a founding member of the Federation, Tellarites are usually ignored and used as background characters, even Andorians occasionally get the spotlight, hell Tellar Prime isn't a social world unlike the other founding members homeworlds in game, I feel like there should be at least one Tellarite bridge crew member in television.
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Peter Dinklage would make a good Tellarite.
Yeah it would be perfect for him especially since it would be a serious role and not meant to just be for humor. These new shows should visit these planets though even ones that aren't founding homeworlds. Would be great in their meetings with CBS if they were able give suggestions of things fans want to see and also see in this game.
I have a soft spot for how the TOS Tellarites look.
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> Peter Dinklage would make a good Tellarite.
Honestly I think he might be too short, on average sure tellarites are shorter then humans but not by that much, think 5'5 or so not under 4 feet.
EDIT: I'm aware that mister Dinklage is actually over 4 feet tall, but that wasn't my point around 135 cm would still be short for a male tellarite, who typically are around 160 cm to 170 cm.
Yet in STO we cant even made a Klingon or Romulan to start as TOS which is a bit disappointing
I was happy to see a Tellarite captain in Lower Decks recently. I like the look of Tellarites the most from Enterprise. Enterprise did a great job showing the race in a few episodes and the characters were well developed in that series.
My main character in STO is a 23c Tellarite. I like the look of the ENT version more than the TOS version, so I switched to that look when my AOY story took him to 25c.
Actually, by the time of TNG Roddenberry was little more than a figurehead used to attract fans. Paramount's vision of Trek never was quite in line with Roddenberry's which is why the movies are so different in fundamental ways from TOS, and the gap only got wider as time went on. Roddenberry went as far as shouting, blue-faced, desk pounding condemnations of quite a few things Paramount was doing and it rarely if ever made any difference, they just let him rant and ignored him for the most part.
One good example is fighters. Roddenberry was totally, 100% against the idea of any kind of fighter or even the larger (but still tiny) gunboat in Trek, citing the astronomical power difference of the two and the fact that real world fighters only survive by being so much faster and hard to hit, which is not the case in Star Trek at all. He pointed out that armed shuttles, no matter what you tried to stuff into them, would still be the equivalent of a rowboat with an outboard motor armed with a machinegun going against capital ships. Yet they overruled him and added gunboats and later even fighter-shuttles that could attack capital ships and hope to do anything but scratch the paint (if even that).
Same thing with Berman's "space procedural" format. Roddenberry wanted the show to be a drama/action format like TOS, Berman was only comfortable with the translation of the police procedural that he brought to Star Trek, and Paramount went with Berman's ideas, not Roddenberry's.
As for the Tellarites, they would not have fit very well in the TNG (and all Berman Trek to some degree) space procedural format very well. That format is heavy on professionalism and reasoned technobabble and the Tellarite irritability and argumentativeness would tend to disrupt that atmosphere except as possibly some sort of lowbrow comic relief. I doubt Berman would have stood for that in a regular character since the show took itself so seriously.
I'd enjoy putting that on a DSC character in game. Don't get me wrong, I love Skavrin as well, but each fits their respective aesthetic.
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Me too. Was glad when Benjamin Sisko punched him in the face.
"I am not Picard!"