I guess they must be getting closer to actually going online with the much-touted Star Trek Online MMORPG, because now there’s a trailer you can view that purports to demonstrate the myriad combinations of alien races you can design…as long as your idea of an alien is a humanoid with some forehead ridges or maybe some antennae. I mean, you can’t blame the producers of the TV series for having to work within the context of using human actors, and you especially can’t get too mad at Gene Roddenberry’s people for only being allowed enough budget for papier mache and Play-Doh, but you’d think people designing a virtual universe could be a little more imaginative. C’mon fellas, you can do it!
Meanwhile, speaking of turtleheads, I got a chortle out of this video about a little old lady who teaches Klingon language lessons:
