Of the stupid explanations out there it does an ok job.
Which means complaining about makeup changes could stop, in theory
Which means complaining about makeup changes could stop, in theory
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Complaining will never stop, but explanations will change which group of fans is doing the complaining.Which means complaining about makeup changes could stop, in theory
Absurd to me because an explanation was provided.
The augment virus created an unnecessary complication to the overall narrative. Acknowledging the difference in designs should have been more than enough. Moreover, creating the explanation shifts the focus of stories to tedious details, taking away from the humanism-driven stories.
The overall shift appears to be away from humanism and towards details
Before the Enterprise explanation, I was always perfectly content with Gene Roddenberry's explanation that the Klingons always looked that way. 
I was satisfied with Worf's explanation that we don't talk about it.Before the Enterprise explanation, I was always perfectly content with Gene Roddenberry's explanation that the Klingons always looked that way.
Somewhere in the Star Trek multiverse, there's a Klingon television show about humans and the Klingons are debating about how all the various types of human beings (short, tall, fat, skinny, black, white, Asian, Indian, etc.) means that the show is no longer canon.
Star Trek's all about explorers and scientists going out in search of new questions to answer so they can better understand the universe. It can be disappointing when the the explanation is mundane or contrived or just really absurd, but I think it's very fitting for mysteries to eventually get solved.
Only if the human beings all start off white and then become black in the spin-off 20 years later and they never show the two skin colours together.
Picard: sometimes you have to bow to the absurd.
Star Trek has an episode with an alien claiming thought is the basis of all reality. Perhaps we're all just seeing someone else's thoughts.
The keep wondering why the original Klingons had white face makeup and the new ones have smooth foreheads. They also speculate why the male Klingons lack a penis.
He was talking about a cargo bay having chickens in it, not eye-rolling storytelling choices. Though it was from Up the Long Ladder so I suppose both were true.
That is the nature of stories though.
Not that writers wouldn't use the dialogue to comment on the story, story writing, the series they're on, the actors, the creator of the franchise, ... .
He definitely is. SUPERMAN is fantastic, the best Superman and Superman movie since Christopher Reeve.
They went to far. Especially sing the TNG look had become iconic at that point. Should have pulled back on the idea of turning them into Orcs.
Honestly I didn't hate those Klingons - physiologically. And the hair they added, that fixed it even more, from what I've seen of stills.
The problem was : the costumes, the ships. They didn't look Klingon. There's this modern scifi trend of weird blockness and weird angularness, carved and curved metal, it doesn't work much. Then wham the D7 comes along and looks as alien to the Klingons as it does to us. The oufits were too out there, especially for a pre-TOS era show. Keep things simple, fabricy, maybe a few updates but don't overdo it.
And why is Trek so allergic to showing the smooth head Klingons? Not the spy ones. The TOS Tribble bar brawl ones. Just add them back like FASA had Imperial ones, Human-Klingon ones, Romulan-Klingon ones. They like to play with genetics, ah well.
The ships just sucked - period. Except for the Sarcophagus Ship and the small one- or two-man scout craft that reappeared in this week's episode of SNW.
They work great in 40K/Battlefleet Gothic.
Controversial opinion: Discovery's Klingon aesthetic was what I was interested in for some a way to liven up Klingon culture.
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