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Originally Posted by Monahammer
At least the Klingons made some canonical sense... it was weird and dumb but there was at least SOME explanation.
Why would they make the Breen just another Sheliak but in suits?
Or vaguely Tholian without the extra limbs I guess.
Just a waste of a perfectly good enemy species.
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Star Trek seems so determined to go granular with its lore, and it really effects how you perceive things, and at some point absolutely wrecks it
Look at the Borg, they were terrifying in STNG. They were a hive mind cybernetic race that were slowly assimilating alien races. They were without malice, relentless, because of their combination of technology nearly unbeatable. They were beaten because frankly the NG crew planted a sleep virus in its network. this is the perfect villain to me, there's mystery to it, and its an entirely different content.
Them . . . they introduce the queen, who becomes the ultimate individual, when she's not slupping Data, she's acting as an individual ruler. Sure, fine its like a bee colony where every drone serves the queen. But then Data and Picard murder her, all the borg blow up. So much for adapting. So much for the hive mind.
Then Voyager makes it worse, there are multiple queens. Drones aren't really drones, they're suppressed individuals. We lose the terrifying hive mind concept, and the queens become petty vengeance based individuals.
The Klingons an awesome warrior race, They live to fight and they live to die an Honorable death. And they really built on that through Deep Space 9 where the Klingons became the stars. When Worf is asked about the non bumpy headed Klingons, he responds they don't talk about it.
Then in enterprise they go into great detail explaining it. then Discovery goes in and decides to reinvent the whole race, ship design, graveyard ships, the look etc. Then in a panic in the end, they try to align them back to the Klingons of old, then they go Oh Frack, lets never mention them ever again.
The Breen were a side villain, they didn't need an explanation, beyond they were brutally militant, they had energy dampening weapons, and they wore the suits because they came from a harsh cold environment, and nobody had seen their face. So they then strip the mystery by showing their faces. Also clearly thy don't need the enviro suits and can survive just fine in normal temperatures.
And wait, here's where I went WTF, they wear their suits on their own ship, because their ships are heated to support human life.