What Has Discovery Added To Star Trek Lore?

[Vger23]

Why does it automatically have to be considered "taken away"?

Why can't it be that one's Head-canon is being Embellished and Added To?

Again, I really don't understand why for some folks it always seems to have to be the Negative instead of the Positive.
What kind of miserable lives do some people create for themselves?

Negativity creates drama. And drama creates activity and conflict, which many people apparently find entertaining in a weird but undeniable way. Positivity doesn't create that intrigue.

So, whether they recognize it or not, many people find it more interesting to be negative. Not my thing....but it's undeniable that others are wired this way.

A lot of people on boards like this try to justify it or define it as simply "having refined tastes" or "higher expectations." But at the end of the day to me it always just strikes me as a need to be negative and have that drama.

 

[Awesome Possum]

It's revolting. Also I don't want to think about Klingon sexual organs. Now I'm left pondering how Worf had sex with Troi and both Daxes. And no, I don't want any suggestions

Given that she married him, Dax seemed to be a fan and she’s probably seen a lot of crazy shit over her lifetimes.

 

[XCV330]

Everyone's trying to figure out B'Lanna's naughty bits. you weren't before, but you are now.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

'I don't want my Headcanon taken away! I need my Headcanon!'

I'll keep my headcanon, but with the understanding as to what it is.

And what it is is simply me filling in the blanks with speculation. However, if something comes along on film and fills in those blanks on a given issue in a way that differs from my speculation, I fully understand that the new information completely trumps my speculation (i.e., there would no longer be a need for speculation on that given issue, so my headcanon on that issue becomes irrelevant.)

However, that headcanon speculation about Star Trek is still a fun thing to do.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Obsessing over the fictional parts of fictional species is a bit odd. They have two dicks, so what? They have all kinds of weird features.

 

[XCV330]

I still wonder if M'Ress coughs up a hairball occasionally

 

[Terok Nor]

So it stands to reason Klingon women have two wombs. Why don't we see any Klingon twins (besides what the Duras Sisters are packing)? Or quadruplets or octuplets? Potentially Klingon women could carry a litter Perhaps the fetuses fight it out to the death inside the womb with the victor claiming the glory of birth

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Given that she married him, Dax seemed to be a fan and she’s probably seen a lot of crazy shit over her lifetimes.

Great...Now you got me thinking about symbiont reproduction (Memory Alpha says they reproduce asexually, by the way).

 

[DaveyNY]

Ya know, we did see that particular Being in the Orion District of the Klingon Home world.
Given the strange chit that Orions are known to involve themselves in, it's entirely possible that he is a Male Prostitute and had himself 'adjusted' to embellish his standing (and thus his income) among the clients that visit that area.
Or he could even be the property of some Orion Pimp who forced him to have the modification done, again to increase the monetary income/value of the chattel.

 

[fireproof78]

So it stands to reason Klingon women have two wombs. Why don't we see any Klingon twins (besides what the Duras Sisters are packing)? Or quadruplets or octuplets? Potentially Klingon women could carry a litter Perhaps the fetuses fight it out to the death inside the womb with the victor claiming the glory of birth

You do understand the redundancy does not mean both are functioning at the same time, right?

 

[F. King Daniel]

Great...Now you got me thinking about symbiont reproduction (Memory Alpha says they reproduce asexually, by the way).

I'm weirdly curious what...

Spoiler: not for the squeamish

...unjoined Trill do with their symbiont pouches. And what Andorians like to do with each other's antennae. And if Troi knows who's enjoying themselves on deck 44.

 

[DaveyNY]

I'm weirdly curious what...

Spoiler: not for the squeamish

...unjoined Trill do with their symbiont pouches. And what Andorians like to do with each other's antennae. And if Troi knows who's enjoying themselves on deck 44.

...and do Vulcans have some sort of orgasm when rubbing their fingers together???

 

[fireproof78]

I'm weirdly curious what...

Spoiler: not for the squeamish

...unjoined Trill do with their symbiont pouches. And what Andorians like to do with each other's antennae. And if Troi knows who's enjoying themselves on deck 44.

Spoiler: Squeamish?

Well, Troi could pick up on the excitement of the males in "Code of Honor" when Yar was taken to their planet

 

[Terok Nor]

You do understand the redundancy does not mean both are functioning at the same time, right?

Both penises appear to function at the same time...

 

[Awesome Possum]

So it stands to reason Klingon women have two wombs. Why don't we see any Klingon twins (besides what the Duras Sisters are packing)? Or quadruplets or octuplets? Potentially Klingon women could carry a litter Perhaps the fetuses fight it out to the death inside the womb with the victor claiming the glory of birth

Certain Earth species like marsupials have three vaginas. The male of species have two pronged penises. Two of the canals take in the sperm and the third is the passage for the baby to emerge. They have three uteruses as well allowing them to be baby making factories.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2012/04/17/kangaroos-have-three-vaginas/

Given the environment of Quonos and Klingons as they are shown, they had to evolve to be an extremely tough species. At some point in their evolutionary lineage, they likely had to produce as many offspring as possible to ensure that some survive long enough to reach maturity. Not on the level that humans have done in the past and in certain countries today, but to prevent extinction. Eventually this passed or they managed to reach some level of civilization that lowered the birth rate. Their multiple sex organs is now a reminder of their evolutionary history like human body hair or whale leg bones.

 

[Timo]

Or then it's related to that one thing that stays constant about the Klingons: that they change.

We have seen Klingons engage in body-altering experiments and rituals, and may consider all Klingon change as implicitly being due to such things. Quite possibly body engineering is popular in the Empire, and those with means undergo operations to make themselves conform to the very latest in body fashion. Obviously, things like obscenely exaggerated musculature or aggression or sexuality would be at the top of the fashion list; at some point, somebody must have gotten fed up with merely increasing one's size and decided to do something different...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Both penises appear to function at the same time...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the idea of two penises is only based on the idea of seeing two urination streams.

If that's the case, and as I've said before, two urine streams does not necessarily mean two penises. Maybe Klingon liquid body waste elimination is achieved by some method other than through the penis.

And even though this post seems only like a juvenile way to keep saying "penis" and "urine", I'm serious about the fact that we don't actually know if that double urine stream really means two penises.

Unless I'm wrong that all we saw or was told about that Klingon was the two streams...in which case "never mind".

 

[Kor]

I still maintain that we don't have definitive proof of only two.

Lorca just referred to humans not having "the right number." He didn't say what exactly the right number was.
Later on we saw an inebriated, probably incoherent, Klingon with two urine streams. Maybe he actually had a lot more, but in his drunken state he could only keep two going at once.

Um...

Kor

 

[Awesome Possum]

Or then it's related to that one thing that stays constant about the Klingons: that they change.

We have seen Klingons engage in body-altering experiments and rituals, and may consider all Klingon change as implicitly being due to such things. Quite possibly body engineering is popular in the Empire, and those with means undergo operations to make themselves conform to the very latest in body fashion. Obviously, things like obscenely exaggerated musculature or aggression or sexuality would be at the top of the fashion list; at some point, somebody must have gotten fed up with merely increasing one's size and decided to do something different...

Timo Saloniemi

It’s actually a thing in the body modification community and that’s just regular humans with today’s technology.

 

[XCV330]

I still maintain that we don't have definitive proof of only two.

Lorca just referred to humans not having "the right number." He didn't say what exactly the right number was.
Later on we saw an inebriated, probably incoherent, Klingon with two urine streams. Maybe he actually had a lot more, but in his drunken state he could only keep two going at once.

Um...

Kor

I want to make a Ghostbusters joke. but I am not going to.