The spoiler linked to earlier in the thread implied some sort of bearded Klingon will be seen in this episode.
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x14 - "The War Without, The War Within"
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The spoiler linked to earlier in the thread implied some sort of bearded Klingon will be seen in this episode.
Only recently they came up with the ability to shave their heads?
Bottom line we don't know why they are bald and if it is by choice or biology. Right now it could be either so to assume they can't grow hair is an assumption and nothing we know.
Has he had time to grow a beard yet?
Tyler has had facial hair most of the season.
True, I have a hard time thinking of that lazy-man scruff as a true beard, which is why I had a brain fart.
It is more then the klingons have and honestly more then I have right now either but that is by choice..
Tyler has had facial hair most of the season.
That's not a beard, that's five o clock shadow
Easy does it, you bastids! I am the proud KING of the lazy man scruff.
My kids call it "fuzzies". "Daaaad!!!! Shave your fuzzies!"
Also: Worf looks dumb without hair.
Also also: After all those Tyler/L'Rell sex scene flashbacks, the B'Elanna Torres/Tom Paris and Worf/Troi//Dax-relationships become a lot more...icky.
In my head I treat DIS as the "klingon skinhead" phase, where some dumb religious numbnuts took over the Empire on a populist, nativist plattform (lol), put waaaay too much ressources and effort into redesigning their starship so they match older, more intricate designs, and gone into total isolation, only to fall into internal turmoil on their way to become great again. I know, not really realistic...
That is a lot more growth then a five o'clock shadow.
It's almost like I was making a whimsical jibe
I am happy to say I'll be watching this over handegg commercials.
This kind of unabated bias, from which the show is seemingly under persistent attack, is really starting to rub me the wrong way - especially since I'm trying to be earnestly objective as possible.
I know I generally tend not to be the most positive about the writing, but bullshit like this just pisses me off -- the assumption that a guy who's done very little outside the franchise, and hardly anything at all in two decades, would be some magic panacea is really silly.
This kind of unabated bias, from which the show is seemingly under persistent attack, is really starting to rub me the wrong way - especially since I'm trying to be earnestly objective as possible.
It was a bit uncalled for, but I do wonder why these scripts keep getting written by young writers with little to no genre experience. I've been checking them out on IMDB and few have any remotely impressive credits under their belt.
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He borrowed Kyle Orton's "physics defying neck-beard".
Because good writers don't just magically hatch from an egg. They have to get experience. How do you think people like Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore and Brian Fuller got their big breaks? They all started out as gophers turning in pretty average scripts. Discovery is just following the time honoured tradition of giving young writers a shot and a place to hone their craft.
I posted something once elsewhere, as a joke:
The Evolution of the Klingons if they were a heavy metal band:
TOS: They're starting out but they don't have their look yet.
The Movies: Hardcore Klingons. They get their look. They have their edge.
TNG & DS9: They gain ultimate fame. They're more mainstream. This is their height.
Discovery: Then, for no reason... they shave their heads! And they want to be hardcore again, except harder.
The Evolution of the Klingons if they were a heavy metal band:
TOS: They're starting out but they don't have their look yet.
The Movies: Hardcore Klingons. They get their look. They have their edge.
TNG & DS9: They gain ultimate fame. They're more mainstream. This is their height.
Discovery: Then, for no reason... they shave their heads! And they want to be hardcore again, except harder.
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