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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
you cake 8 pounds of makeup on him like they did on Data and have everyone pretend like he always had that scary bloated face ever since they first met at Farpoint. you also pretend that convincing deepfake technology doesn't exist.
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Of all the things that were wrong with
Star Trek: Picard—and there were lots—I can't believe how people looooove to harp on the fact that Brent Spiner doesn't look exactly the same as he did in 2002, let alone 1987. At a certain point either you acknowledge the fact a 70-year-old man was trying to play a role he originated half a lifetime ago and just "deal with it", or you make snide remarks like a petulant child.
Honestly the only thing that bugged me was the colour of his contact lenses looked off. Other than that I'm glad the man got the chance to give the character a different, more profound send-off. The performance would have been cheapened if it was just some deepfake ####. I very much loved the last episode of
The Mandalorian, but seeing an obviously faked "Luke Skywalker" deliver manipulated dialogue through a wooden computer-generated façade really cheapened the affect of the scene.