First look at Klingons in 'Star Trek: Discovery'?

[-Brett-]

I'm all for updates, but this isn't an update, it's a totally different creature. No resemblance to Klingons at all.

No one would "reimagine" Daleks or Wookiees like this. Just saying.

 

[JD]

If we're going to bring Doctor Who into this I'd just like to point out the Cybermen, and Silurians. I'd say their reimaginings over the years have been way more dramatic than these Klingons.

 

[Kor]

Why don't we all just take a deep breath and wait until the show starts and see how everything plays out instead of complaining for the sake of complaining?

Kor

 

[Nerys Myk]

Even the flat-headed TOS klingons sported beards, strange moustaches and bushy eyebrows.

#NotAllTOSKlingons

 

[Nerys Myk]

Why don't we all just take a deep breath and wait until the show starts and see how everything plays out instead of complaining for the sake of complaining?

Kor

You new to the internet?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

There Kahless was, just a walkin' down the street
Singin' Do-wah-diddy-diddy-dum-diddy-do
Disembowling his enemies and shufflin' his feet
Singin' Do-wah-diddy-diddy-dum-diddy-do

He ate gagh (he ate gagh)
Drank bloodwine (drank bloodwine)
He ate gagh, drank bloodwine
And he never lost his mind

 

[DigificWriter]

Objecting to these aliens apparently being called Klingons isn't "complaining for the sake of complaining"; it's pushing back against stupidity and the manufacturing of inconsistencies.

 

[Kemaiku]

They're Klingons.

That leads to two options.

1. Watch a quality TV show for actual entertainment.
2. Don't because grown men aren't wearing the right kind of fantasy costume.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Objecting to these aliens apparently being called Klingons isn't "complaining for the sake of complaining"; it's pushing back against stupidity and the manufacturing of inconsistencies.

It complaining for the sake of complaining. This is fiction. It's mutable. Nothing is set in stone.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

So you would have no problem with, for example, Andorians appearing on DSC as giant red teddy bears?

 

[Longinus]

They're Klingons.

That leads to two options.

1. Watch a quality TV show for actual entertainment.
2. Don't because grown men aren't wearing the right kind of fantasy costume.

Right. Because everything is black and white. One has to either unequivocally love and accept everything about the show or shun it entirely. It is not possible to critique one aspect while liking another.

Personally, I like what little I have heard about the themes and the premise of the show, what I haven't liked is the style of the production design (these Klingons, the ship.) Whilst I certainly agree that the former is more important than the latter, it doesn't mean that the latter is utterly immaterial either.

 

[Kemaiku]

For all we know, every form of Klingon we see exists, on the same planet, representing a greater variety of the race than we thought. Because obviously Humans all look a like...

 

[MarsWeeps]

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#NotAllTOSKlingons

I just noticed this. Isn't this Klingon the same actor who played Leslie (Eddie Paskey?)
He sure got around in those days!

 

[Nerys Myk]

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I just noticed this. Isn't this Klingon the same actor who played Leslie (Eddie Paskey?)
He sure got around in those days!
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Well, you've just blown his cover. Do you know how long it took to get him in with the Klingons!!!!???

 

[KennyB]

So you would have no problem with, for example, Andorians appearing on DSC as giant red teddy bears?

That's just stupid you know they would have to be BLUE teddy bears........duh.

 

[Nerys Myk]

So you would have no problem with, for example, Andorians appearing on DSC as giant red teddy bears?

I don't see this as that extreme. Bumpy heads, dark skin and armor falls with in Klingon "norms". Red teddy bears are not in the Andorian "norm". And we've see a lot of variety in that norm. From TOS to ENT.

 

[DigificWriter]

@Nerys Myk These "Klingons" look like humanoid Komodo dragons, not humans with dark skin, dark armor, and bumpy/ridged heads. It's far more extreme of a departure from established Klingon design than you seem to want to acknowledge, which is why it's such an issue for me and others.

 

[Nerys Myk]

@Nerys Myk These "Klingons" look like humanoid Komodo dragons, not humans with dark skin, dark armor, and bumpy/ridged heads. It's far more extreme of a departure from established Klingon design than you seem to want to acknowledge, which is why it's such an issue for me and others.

As aliens they should be more than humans with dark skin, dark armor, and bumpy/ridged heads. The more non human elements in the make up the better.

 

[DigificWriter]

As aliens they should be more than humans with dark skin, dark armor, and bumpy/ridged heads. The more non human elements in the make up the better.

Not when the Canonical explanation for why a significant number of alien species look humanoid is that the planets from which said species originate were "seeded" with human genomes.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Not when the Canonical explanation for why a significant number of alien species look humanoid is that the planets from which said species originate were "seeded" with human genomes.

They still fall in the humanoid range.
And no, human was not said to be the default or baseline in that episode. Human is just one variation.