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Title: Similarities between 8472 and Vasudans
Post by: dragonsniper on March 21, 2010, 07:28:21 am: Ok, so last night I finished watching a Voyager episode entitled "Scorpion." Included in this episode was a new Species, Species "8472." After seeing the aliens, the bone structure in a way reminded me of that of a Vasudan's body structure (without the back leg ofcourse.) The Scorpion episodes was released in early 1997. Is it possible that the modelers at :v: could have modeled the Vasudans after this Species? The bodily structures just (to me) look so similar, that I thought I'd bring this up. Some pics for everyone's convenience also. Opinions, thoughts, discuss. :)

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Title: Re: Similarities between 8472 and Vasudans
Post by: NeoKnight on March 21, 2010, 08:55:03 am: Looks like a mutated Vasudan/Shivan hybrid. :lol:
Title: Re: Similarities between 8472 and Vasudans
Post by: dragonsniper on March 21, 2010, 09:29:07 am: Quote from: NeoKnight on March 21, 2010, 08:55:03 am
Looks like a mutated Vasudan/Shivan hybrid. :lol:
In a weird way, it kind of does. ;)
Title: Re: Similarities between 8472 and Vasudans
Post by: Kosh on March 21, 2010, 09:30:47 am: Quote from: NeoKnight on March 21, 2010, 08:55:03 am
Looks like a mutated Vasudan/Shivan hybrid. :lol:

Never thought of that, good call.
Title: Re: Similarities between 8472 and Vasudans
Post by: Kopachris on March 21, 2010, 10:49:16 am: Quote from: NeoKnight on March 21, 2010, 08:55:03 am
Looks like a mutated Vasudan/Shivan hybrid. :lol:
http://hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/8472_Theory

After learning other theories, such as in AoA, I don't subscribe to the above anymore. But it's still there!
Title: Re: Similarities between 8472 and Vasudans
Post by: Enigmatic Entity on March 22, 2010, 01:58:51 am: A lot of "aliens" appear to be "designed" with the human body structure...by the way, that species does look like they have some deformation disease as per above :)
Title: Re: Similarities between 8472 and Vasudans
Post by: dragonsniper on March 22, 2010, 06:46:54 am: Well, IIRC it does have a deformation disease, due to the space they lived in. And yes, I honestly I can't say that I've seen a lot of alien based movies where the aliens do not have a human-like bodily structure.
Title: Re: Similarities between 8472 and Vasudans
Post by: Paladin327 on March 22, 2010, 08:46:31 am: Quote from: dragonsniper on March 22, 2010, 06:46:54 am
Well, IIRC it does have a deformation disease, due to the space they lived in. And yes, I honestly I can't say that I've seen a lot of alien based movies where the aliens do not have a human-like bodily structure.

probably because there arent many actors that can fit into a shivan costume
Title: Re: Similarities between 8472 and Vasudans
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 22, 2010, 09:10:05 am: 8472 was CGI in their early appearances.
Title: Re: Similarities between 8472 and Vasudans
Post by: Goober5000 on March 22, 2010, 10:52:57 am: Quote from: NGTM-1R on March 22, 2010, 09:10:05 am
8472 was CGI in their early appearances.
Eh? Was there ever a time when they were not CGI?

(Unless you're referring to that stupid episode when they were trying to impersonate humans.)
Title: Re: Similarities between 8472 and Vasudans
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 22, 2010, 02:20:57 pm: Quote from: Goober5000 on March 22, 2010, 10:52:57 am
Eh? Was there ever a time when they were not CGI?

I didn't watch their later appearances, so I wanted to be careful.

The point being that, being CGI, there was no real requirement for 8472 to be humanoid.