No, we see the commander on the viewscreen there.
Klingons appearance - history repeats itself
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Oh I would never have them down as a footnote. But as a fan who had to work backwards to TOS it was easy just to squint and assume the frowns were ridges if you see what I mean. The redesign wasn’t much of a redesign as there wasn’t much of a design to begin with...this is definitely a redesign though.
For those of us who grew up on TOS, it was a pretty radical change. The old-school Klingons didn't have any latex appliances to make them look like actual aliens. They were sneering bad guys wearing nothing more grease paint and mustaches. But that very absence of "alien" makeup on the TV show is what made the TMP Klingons so startling. Just redesigning the Klingons to look like an actual aliens was completely different from what we were used to.
"Whoa! That's what Klingons look like now? They never looked that freaky on the TV show!"
From where I was sitting, it was just as big a redesign as the new Klingons are to folks who grew up on the modern stuff. It certainly wasn't what we had come to think of as a "Klingon" for more than a decade.
And according to Corporal Captain, we did see a Klingon onscreen in "Elaan of Troyius," so there were even more old-school Klingons onscreen than I remember.
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I think you mean "Koloth." But, yes, that would be cool. I wouldn't mind seeing Pike or Burnham run into younger versions of some TOS Klingons, complete with the new DISCO makeups.
(Not to be confused with Kodos the Executioner, who was not a Klingon.)
Yeah, I meant Koloth, not Kolos, he was the lawyer who defended Archer to the High Council, silly me
You know, I was wondering if there was actually a "Kolos" on one of the later shows. I confess I don't know ENTERPRISE nearly as well as I've memorized TOS.
You're shocked, I know.
Kollos was the Medusan.
Yeah, but those shoulder pads! With Romulans around, you always had a place to sit your drink.
You put enough Romulans in one room, and they start looking like carnival shooting arcade targets.
Even the civilians had them
Shoulder pads in the shoulder pad decade (power dressing)!
And?
I was just making an observation, adding to the conversation
Hard to respect a space-faring race when they're being sued by Crystal Carrington for having bigger shoulder pads than she did.
Yeah, the Kodos and Kollos thing is just unnecessarily confusing. And we can throw in Khan as well.
Then again, nobody back then knew we'd still be scrutinizing this stuff more than fifty years later!
"Kollos? Don't you think that sounds like it ought to be a Klingon name?"
"We're getting cancelled anyway. Just go with it."
Then again, nobody back then knew we'd still be scrutinizing this stuff more than fifty years later!
"Kollos? Don't you think that sounds like it ought to be a Klingon name?"
"We're getting cancelled anyway. Just go with it."
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I haven't read one explanation as to why Discovery Klingons took an appearance so contrary to how we see them ten years later.
It's bullshit I tell you, bullshit
To repeat, we didn't get an "explanation" back in '79 either. How is this different?
Meanwhile, going back to Mad Jack Wolfe's post, I have to wonder: if Crystal Carrington was a Klingon, would she be Krystal Karrington?
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