ladyyatexel:I feel like someone was just really not on the ball here with Cardassian Bones. Unless t
ladyyatexel:I feel like someone was just really not on the ball here with Cardassian Bones. Unless this dude died from all the tissue in his face turning to bone, the skull should really not work that way? He looks like he has chapped lips made of bone. Unless this is a mask? But who puts a death mask on soldiers they fully expect to wake up? Or his face is partially mummified? From what, exactly? His jaw should have fallen off of his skull a bit, not fused itself to his cheeks (which have also turned to bone, because fuck zygomatic arches apparently?).We’ve seen Cardassian eye ridges be mobile - Garak raises his all the time - why would they be present on a skeleton? If they’re separate chunks of bone suspended in flesh (…why?) they’d have fallen off when the tissue decayed. Even sturdy cartilage, exposed like that, should decay? Though I guess he’s still got something on his ribs? And there’s no room in his eyesocket for an eye, actually? Unless those are closed EYES, and I’m reading this wrong? But then how is the rest of him literally skeletal, aaaaa. He has to have died from a case of facial-cranial ossification, that is literally all I can figure here.AS much as I love Empok Nor (which is a lot, let’s be honest), wtf is going on here?OH MY GOD yes to all of this. If that prop guy had ever even seen a skeleton before, clearly no one had ever explained to him how it worked because WOW. I remember thinking something like this when I watched the episode for the first time but I never got around to posting about it, nor did I pause and take a closer look.(This just further cements my intention to do a study of cardassian anatomy and how it might actually function.) -- source link
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