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The Deltans had headwear. They would also likely have nude weddings considering the Deltans were a sexually-advanced race.
So my hot take for the day: I much preferred the Deltans over the Betazoids.
Ilia was a Deltan. I believe the Betazoids were the replacement race for the Deltans in the Next Generation series. My opinion is I think they should have just stuck with the Deltans and developed the lore behind their race rather than create the Betazoids. Make some of the Deltans empathic. Ilia had some healing power to her (if you remember Chekov getting his hand burned during the V'Ger encounter). To me they stood out as a creatively written race of people.
So my hot take for the day: I much preferred the Deltans over the Betazoids.
Ilia was a Deltan. I believe the Betazoids were the replacement race for the Deltans in the Next Generation series. My opinion is I think they should have just stuck with the Deltans and developed the lore behind their race rather than create the Betazoids. Make some of the Deltans empathic. Ilia had some healing power to her (if you remember Chekov getting his hand burned during the V'Ger encounter). To me they stood out as a creatively written race of people.
Although (for generational reasons, no pun intended) I was exposed to TNG first and TMP a ways later, I wholeheartedly agree with your 'hot take'. I even feel bad for other TOS-movie lore that ended up eating dust, such as the "Efrosian" aliens.
The first two seasons of Next Gen literally used retooled scripts from "Phase II" to get around a Writers' Strike going on at the time, so you are right about the Betazoids being faux-Deltans from the start. By extension, anyway, since Troi really-truly started out as a stand-in for Ilia, just as Riker was for Decker Jr.
Reading the TMP novelization, blew my mind at the time, especially since I was still a kid then (and very much the proverbial "ten year old Star Trek nerd" Seanbaby brought up in a MegaMan game review or two, and depicted more sympathetically in one of Scout's stories). Since it was written out by Roddenberry himself, it was a look into the atmosphere and background of a Star Trek that was imagined but never really manifested outside of that one novel. I bring that up because he spoke at length and sympathetically about the Deltans, but...
There was a weirdly strong gravitation in the stories toward making Deltans into sacrificial lambs. Jedda, the only Genesis Project scientist killed on camera in Wrath of Khan, was going to be one until he was (not "whitewashed"; "hairwashed"?) made a human at the last minute, meaning the actor got to keep his 70s-tastic hair style to go along with the cut of his obligatory "Star Trek civilian" earth tones. Anyway, the writer of that novelization had written a number of Trek stories of her own, and since she was working off an earlier version of the script anyway, she talked a great deal more about those scientists as individuals, and the planet Delta IV, and how romantic relationships worked there.
Those are the only sources I've got and you may well know more, or at least of more.
The first two seasons of Next Gen literally used retooled scripts from "Phase II" to get around a Writers' Strike going on at the time, so you are right about the Betazoids being faux-Deltans from the start. By extension, anyway, since Troi really-truly started out as a stand-in for Ilia, just as Riker was for Decker Jr.
Reading the TMP novelization, blew my mind at the time, especially since I was still a kid then (and very much the proverbial "ten year old Star Trek nerd" Seanbaby brought up in a MegaMan game review or two, and depicted more sympathetically in one of Scout's stories). Since it was written out by Roddenberry himself, it was a look into the atmosphere and background of a Star Trek that was imagined but never really manifested outside of that one novel. I bring that up because he spoke at length and sympathetically about the Deltans, but...
There was a weirdly strong gravitation in the stories toward making Deltans into sacrificial lambs. Jedda, the only Genesis Project scientist killed on camera in Wrath of Khan, was going to be one until he was (not "whitewashed"; "hairwashed"?) made a human at the last minute, meaning the actor got to keep his 70s-tastic hair style to go along with the cut of his obligatory "Star Trek civilian" earth tones. Anyway, the writer of that novelization had written a number of Trek stories of her own, and since she was working off an earlier version of the script anyway, she talked a great deal more about those scientists as individuals, and the planet Delta IV, and how romantic relationships worked there.
Those are the only sources I've got and you may well know more, or at least of more.
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