Picard’s Gallery of Star Trek Skulls: Creepy Alien Biology Insights

Last week’s episode of Picard thrust its heroes right into a darkish actuality the place Jean-Luc was not a great hero of the utopian Federation, however a butchering normal of an evil Confederacy. It requested many questions of the person, but it surely additionally requested us this: each puzzled what was happening inside a Klingon’s head… fairly actually?

Although Picard is given many hints that the world John de Lancie’s pleasant cosmic asshole Q has snapped him into in “Penance” will not be a nice one, issues change into very clear for him and us early on within the episode when Q reveals Picard a really ugly trophy room. Lined with the picked-clean skulls of “General” Picard’s enemies, it’s a notable who-who of Star Trek alien figures… who on this timeline are simply very, very lifeless.

Production designer David Blass has taken to Instagram to indicate off the show of skulls, every designed by idea designer Neville Page, and it’s a sight to see. There’s “cameos” of Trek faces like Ambassador Sarek (Spock’s dad), DS9‘s General Martok, Gul Dukat, and Grand Nagus Zek up shut, and there’s some fascinating particulars to be discovered past the gruesomeness. There’s M’talas of the Lihn Zhee, a cheeky reference to Picard showrunner Terry Matalas, and even a Borg cranium for good measure. But it may additionally simply have you ever very inquisitive about Star Trek xenobiology for a minute. Like… what’s up with the Ferengi’s large ol’ lobes having precise bones in them?

Ferengi ears are famously delicate in Star Trek lore, with Ferengi seeing their outsized ears as erogenous zones—however contemplating that past that we’ve by no means had to consider Ferengi ears this a lot, it was maybe surpising to some to see them represented on this grim anatomy lesson. But in accordance with Blass, that’s simply the sort of factor you consider when it is advisable to give you a room stuffed with alien skulls. “Of course when it came to the Ferengi we discussed the Bone vs Cartilage in the ears,” Blass’ caption on Instagram reads partly. “Many species have Flexible Dermal Armor, Microdocodon gracilis had hyoid bones that were flexible and required for eating. Add to that humans having bones in the ear specifically designed to facilitate auditory functions. The Ferengi Ears warranted this type of discussion.”

The extra you understand! Click by means of to go up shut and gruesomely private with a number of Star Trek icons’ internal workings. You know, in the event you’re into that type of factor.

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