You did if you watched Trek in the BBC transmission order! Where Devil in The Dark came before Dagger of The Mind! 
JB
JB
Klingon redundancies
- Thread starter WarpFactorZ
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Production order is the only order. Anything else is heresy. American broadcast order is acceptable, but only in the case of emergency.You did if you watched Trek in the BBC transmission order! Where Devil in The Dark came before Dagger of The Mind!
JB
So this begs the question - are Klingon stomach aches twice as bad?
If you can digest live worms, you can eat anything!
Hell, we'd never heard anything about that whole katra business until THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK, nearly twenty years after Vulcans were first introduced.
This begs the question, is there another order in which to watch the episodes? Airdate, Production, BBC, Stardates! Is there another channel's order which could be interesting?
JB
They certainly can be, as B'Elanna indicates in "Macrocosm" (VGR):
TORRES: I may never look at food again.
PARIS: I thought Klingons didn't get nauseated. You have a redundant stomach.
TORRES: Well, right now, they're both unhappy...[passes out]
Great catch! I forgot about this one.They certainly can be, as B'Elanna indicates in "Macrocosm" (VGR):
-MMoM
TORRES: I may never look at food again.
PARIS: I thought Klingons didn't get nauseated. You have a redundant stomach.
TORRES: Well, right now, they're both unhappy...[passes out]
Not to double-post here, but - how do you suppose, by extension, Klingon porn would address this? I can only imagine that it would open up tons of new fetish and 'specialty' categories.
Yeah, let's not go into detail on that.
Admittedly, it would be funny if they featured this as a throwaway detail in the middle of some super-serious Klingon scene on Discovery. I'm imagining Emo Klingon of the Season getting chastised by his shipmates for screwing around while there's work to be done.
That's easy...
Apparently, Klingons are the only species that can travel 'Up the Hershey Highway' and down the 'Rabbit Hole' at the same time.
I don’t know if this has been brought up already, but why wouldn’t Klingons have redundant sense organs like, say, eyes? Shouldn’t that have helped out General Chang?
That's easy...
Apparently, Klingons are the only species that can travel 'Up the Hershey Highway' and down the 'Rabbit Hole' at the same time.
Yeah, usually it takes two guys to do that...
Maybe the two redundant eyes are situated elsewhere... like the Chest or the back, for example, the latter would help you watch for backstabbers...
The theory that helps me sleep at night is that Klingons have two urethra contained within the same penis. This way if there's a UTI in one tract, the other one can take over. This would also be able to explain the dual streams we saw from that peeing Klingon.
This way I don't have to picture Worf with two Penises.
This way I don't have to picture Worf with two Penises.
It would explain the grooves as sensory organs theory. But, that could have been a later genetic modifcation.
Shakespeare would have been *very* different in the original Klingon if that were true...
It just seems odd that something like the excretory organs would be duplicated but not sensory ones. I could understand Klingons evolving redundant stomachs, lungs, heart chambers, etc. to make them more efficient in battle and so forth but if Klingon Mother Nature was going to duplicate everything, why didn’t she? They have four nostrils now - why not redundant eyes that swivel round when one is damaged? And why did Chang opt not to use his redundant eye? Did he just want to look intimidating with his eye patch and secretly all the other Klingons were like “what an idiot he’s got a spare he just wants us to think he’s cool all eyepatch and quoting Shakespeare and whatnot”...
I rather doubt there's any "evolution" involved.
Probably Klingons just saw it fit to engineer themselves to be more robust warriors. A bit of extra here and there, not even the same sort of extras for all individuals. Some of it would be hereditary, some wouldn't go down the generations all that well (genes for growing a third lung, yeah, but #3 is a runt of an organ on most warriors, not manifesting much on the onscreen graphics).
The more individual variation, the more understandable it would be for Crusher to be so ignorant of basic Klingon duplication in "Ethics", too.
How much engineering specific individuals or families go for is defined by the degree of edge they want to gain, but also by the degree of conformity they are willing to sacrifice. A bit of body modification here or there is fine, as many would aspire to be Mister Fantastic. But few would want to look like the Thing, despite the performance advantages. So, no extra organs on the surface, beyond fancy "body tattoos" of suitably subdued nature (aka forehead ridges).
Timo Saloniemi
Probably Klingons just saw it fit to engineer themselves to be more robust warriors. A bit of extra here and there, not even the same sort of extras for all individuals. Some of it would be hereditary, some wouldn't go down the generations all that well (genes for growing a third lung, yeah, but #3 is a runt of an organ on most warriors, not manifesting much on the onscreen graphics).
The more individual variation, the more understandable it would be for Crusher to be so ignorant of basic Klingon duplication in "Ethics", too.
How much engineering specific individuals or families go for is defined by the degree of edge they want to gain, but also by the degree of conformity they are willing to sacrifice. A bit of body modification here or there is fine, as many would aspire to be Mister Fantastic. But few would want to look like the Thing, despite the performance advantages. So, no extra organs on the surface, beyond fancy "body tattoos" of suitably subdued nature (aka forehead ridges).
Timo Saloniemi