borg69unimatrix
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How come all those mutant races have human bodies except for some plastic growth on their forehead? So cheap!
Well... IMO, TREK was never meant to be high budget/special effects. It's a story telling medium about the trials and tribulations (no pun? ... you wouldn't get it anyway...) of human beings, human relationships, human emotions, human weaknesses... the make up is supposed to represent foreign thoughts and beliefs, while still being able to show the human emotion behind them.
To some degree, I liken them to the masks worn in ancient Greek plays.
The story is the important part, not painting the whole picture for you... your imagination is supposed to fill in the blanks.


even though I think most of us might well agree with that idea
clashing with any serious tone that might be attached... and if that was the case, the most natural, sensible reaction, again maybe too naively considered by me, is to laugh at it, not feel indignant about it.