Rubber Forehead Aliens: Difference between revisions

** The ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "The Chase" provides a tidy explanation (part [[Retcon]], part [[Lampshade Hanging]]) for the prevalence of Rubber Forehead Aliens in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' universe. All the main races in the universe were created from "seeds" placed in their respective worlds' primordial oceans by an even more ancient humanoid race.

** There's another [[Lampshade Hanging]] when the Bajoran Ro Laren, who has something of a chip on her shoulder, refers to herself as "the token bumpy-forehead".

** Of course, Klingons only gained their rubber foreheads when the movies' increased budget permitted it. Prior to the [[Retcon]], they were "Entire Bottle of Bronzer and Upswept Eyebrows" Aliens. In fact, until attention was called to it in ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'', the [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]] was the official explanation: in-universe, they weren't considered to look exactly like humans. There just wasn't the budget to portray them as they actually looked. (There's actually an onscreen reference, sort of: a Klingon posing as a human was said to have been ''surgically altered'' to appear human (if we take what's onscreen at face value, it wouldn't take surgery, just a haircut).

** The [[Star Trek (film)|2009 movie]] seems to be going out of its way to give us a new variation with the large eyed aliens.