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  • It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia S17E8 “The Golden Bachelor Live”
  • Star Trek: Enterprise S4E12 “Babel One”
  • Star Trek: Enterprise S1E19 “Acquisition”
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      9 months ago

      Dude, we never see ambiguously “dumb” characters on Star Trek, well excepting Lieutenant Broccoli, so having an odd-ball character who’s really good at one thing, but completely fucked everything else up!? Boom, DeVito

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          9 months ago

          Pakleds are one of the goofier mono-cultures in Trek. Up there with the Tamarians on my list of “How the hell did this species learn to fly?”. The bottom of the list is the Klingons, only because we know they stole most of their ship tech from the Hur’q.

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            9 months ago

            As for the Tamarians, they’re shown to be a rather advanced species capable of taking on and disabling the Federation flagship. Their method of communication may not be very efficient to the point of conversations and actions take longer than other species. But that shouldn’t hinder their level of intelligence

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              9 months ago

              Yeah, I don’t doubt their intelligence I’m just curious about the more practical problems of society/technology. For example, what do their technical manuals look like? How do you train a new Tamarian recruit on how do maintenance? Or for that matter, how do you pass along technical knowledge at all when all of your language seems to be in the form of specific cultural references? At least with the Pakleds and the Klingons we know the answer - they stole it.

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    9 months ago

    My vote goes for a generally tall and slender species.

    I think he’d play the hell out of a Kelpien for example. Say, Saru’s long lost brother they don’t talk about, at all?

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    9 months ago

    He would just be off-the-street Danny DeVito, and there would be no explanation to what his species is.

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    9 months ago

    I want to see him as a recurring background character of every race!

    Also, Jeffrey Combs frequently shows up with DeVito.

    This should be an ongoing bit throughout multiple series/movies.

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      9 months ago

      I want Jeffrey Combs to guest star in the same episode, portraying Danny DeVito. It is revealed he had been cryogenically frozen before death and only now was revived (similar to the ancient humans who were thawed/healed in TNG S1E26 “The Neutral Zone”)

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      9 months ago

      Hah as thinking about options I thought DeVito should show up as whoever Combs is playing, the assistant.

      Growing up in the 80s I always liked DeVito overall, from romancing the Stone to Twins, those were just my first recalls of him, assume that gives you an idea of my generation.

      I’ll say I haven’t watched much of it’s always sunny in Philadelphia but it endeared me to learn he enjoyed the comedy so much so they did what it took to accomodate him in the series. Which from what I understand was filming all his scenes for a season when he was there over like a few days.

      Unless I read incorrectly of course but seem to recall that being a thing at the start at least.

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        9 months ago

        You are right about his making season two’s filming more complex!

        Before production of the second season began, series creator Rob McElhenney found out that DeVito was a fan of the show and a friend of FX president, John Landgraf. McElhenney asked Landgraf to set up a meeting. McElhenney met DeVito at his home and pitched DeVito’s character, Frank Reynolds. DeVito agreed to star in the show, but was only available for twenty days. To have Frank Reynolds in all ten episodes of the second season, all of DeVito’s scenes were filmed before filming the remainder of the season.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_Always_Sunny_in_Philadelphia_season_2

        They ended up filming the entire season out of order to accommodate his schedule, which made for a lot of continuity challenges. They started by recording only every shot that involves DeVito. After they no longer had access to him, they went back to those same scenes and recorded everything else, making sure all the sets/costumes were the same as they were during the DeVito shoots.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QSnimzHjO8

        Starts talking about this around 2:35