Re-imagining Alien Races

[clearspira]

It's just one of those thing I just can suspend my disbelief for when I watch it. I did try to watch it when the newest version (whatever Doctor that was) 15-20 years ago. Was just hard.

I don't know maybe they could have updated the Dalek design a bit to look more intimidating but I guess their design is a in series joke or a British humor thing I don't know about.

As someone who bitched when they changed the Klingons on STD, I can tell you that there is only so much ''updating'' you can do to such an iconic design.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

The most offensive klingon design was Into Darkness.

[ProfessorDetective]

Something I love about the reintroduction to the Dalek in the Season 1 episode "Dalek" is that without making major adulterations to the design of them, still made them threatening and showed the new audiences why that is with added features like the toilet plunger being able to crush a skull and even interact with consoles, or the bullet-disintergrating forcefield, and even bringing back the hover thrusters to show that even a small flight of stairs can't stop this death machine.

Its a design that you would expect to come out of something called ''The Time War.'' If you take their backstory into account, the Daleks were originally designed as travel machines for mutants on Skaro and not weapons of war in and of themselves - which is arguably backed up by how they preferred to fight back in the classic series. Very rarely did they START OUT by coming at you 1 on 1; they would flatten you from orbit, send in mind-controlled humans, wipe you from history, become the ''man behind the man'', or use some kind of WMD. The Daleks were a lot more tactically minded than people remember. It is only post Time War that you see great armies of Daleks coming at you.

I seem to remember though that a lot of what people credit the Bronze Dalek for was actually introduced during the Imperial and Renegade Dalek wars under Sylvester McCoys Doctor. They could definitely now climb stairs.

Yeah, a lot of creative teams can't seem to decide if they want 'one Dalek can level Salt Lake City on their own' or 'thousands of Daleks pouring out of the sky'. It's a textbook example of the Law of the Conservation of Ninjutsu.

It's why I loved 'Resolution of the Daleks' to pieces: you've got ONE Dalek and it is NEAR-UNSTOPPABLE, even when it's casing was mostly cobbled together from Modern Earth scrap.

[McAvoy]

It's just one of those thing I just can suspend my disbelief for when I watch it. I did try to watch it when the newest version (whatever Doctor that was) 15-20 years ago. Was just hard.

I don't know maybe they could have updated the Dalek design a bit to look more intimidating but I guess their design is a in series joke or a British humor thing I don't know about.

As someone who bitched when they changed the Klingons on STD, I can tell you that there is only so much ''updating'' you can do to such an iconic design.

I hate the Discovery Klingons. I like the way they speak. That's fine. But the elongated head I hate.

All they had to do was take the existing Klingon look and update it a bit so it looks less obvious that it's a forehead prosthesis. Worf comes to mind, with some scenes showing an obvious seam around his temples.

I don't know a cheek prosthesis could have worked.