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    Nowadays it would all be CGI. But back in the day… They’d put actors through hell with full makeup that would take hours to apply. And if you were really lucky, you got to do that for years and years!

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    The Borg one looks like kind of your standard orthotic helmet some babies need, just with a paintjob and some greeblies. I assume the chestpiece and the Naomi Wildman prosthetics weren’t too bad either and used some medical grade glue that could be put on quick and cleaned up easily. I have no idea how they got away with the Cardassian baby though, unless they just, like, cast a Cardassian baby.

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        LOL I certainly hope so, but have you considered that there is indeed a race of lizard people, possibly even secretly running the earth?

        Either way, the idea of doing the whole multi-hour sci-fi prosthetic routine on an infant is certainly unsettling.

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          have you considered that there is indeed a race of lizard people, possibly even secretly running the earth?

          Then they’re doing a really shitty job. We should be demanding a higher standard of lizard people.

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    It must be nice when these parents unpack their old photo albums and show embarrassing childhood pictures to unsuspecting visitors: “Aww, look at the little guy, such a cute Borg baby” …

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    Ya know, I’d be down for a Trek kids show, maybe something akin to those mid-90s educational shows or a fun cartoon set in the same time as Lower Decks but actually oriented to kids. I mean, sure Trek doesn’t have space magic like certain other IPs but that makes it so much better for something educational, haha.

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        Yeah Prodigy is definitely kids-Trek but ultimately it’s also kinda forgettable.

        I let my young’ns watch a curated selection of Lower Decks - Sans certain episodes - and they love it

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          How far did you watch into Prodigy? Let’s just say it gradually gets less forgettable - I think it really picks up mid-season 1.

          I do love Lower Decks, though.

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        Prodigy is like (rather good, at least after the first few episodes) Saturday morning adventure kids cartoons. There’s some interesting thematic stuff going on that can inspire kids to kindness, leadership, curiosity, etc., but it’s not explicitly educational in the way something like The Magic Schoolbus is.

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        Star Trek meets Scooby Doo would work actually, there’s enough episodes where the premise is “the locals think it’s magic but it’s just a probe/time shift/alien relic/energy being” etc etc. Starship Mystery Machine

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        “Please let this be a normal away mission…”

        [red-shirt kid gets zapped to death by the educational monster of the week]