Different production teams
Fan reactions to Starfleet Academy's female Jem'Hadar/Klingon hybrid character
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The Discovery team thinks they have a better idea, despite years of accumulated evidence to the contrary.
No they don't.
If that were the case they wouldn't have reverted the Klingon makeup back.
They DO realize that this is a fictional species, don't they?
TPTB are going to do whatever the hell they want.
Icheb was the first.
And Disco ("Klingons are not PURPLE!")
TPTB are going to do whatever the hell they want.
Icheb was the first.
And Disco ("Klingons are not PURPLE!")
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Honestly, the Ferengi we saw on Picard was the one who looked off to me. The one on Disco looked basically the same as the Berman era Ferengi, just with skin texturing to it.
Sometimes, I think not.
Unless it was an order from the network executives.
Meh, it's still not the radical change everyone acts like it is either.
Had that individual shown up in a pre-2009 production, folks would've wondered if it was a product of mixed parentage, and rightly so. If one actually lists the differences instead of just glancing it gets lengthy, from the chin wrinkles all the way up to the sagittal crest.
Nah. Just like in '79 with the Klingons, we'd just assume it was a make up change. We don't all go down the overthinking rabbit hole.
This. How many different Klingons have we seen?Nah. Just like in '79 with the Klingons, we'd just assume it was a make up change. We don't all go down the overthinking rabbit hole.
Nah. Just like in '79 with the Klingons, we'd just assume it was a make up change. We don't all go down the overthinking rabbit hole.
I've seen the "but muh TMP Klingons!" retort before, but surely you realize it is fundamentally absurd.
With the Enterprise, rather than plop a different ship in place like a turd in a punchbowl and just roll on, reboot style, the production spent untold hundreds of thousands if not a million or more on the drydock, actors filming lines, the screen time, et cetera. However, because they also did not turn it into a five hour film wherein they also explain the variations in Vulcan planetside costuming between TOS and TMP, Klingon makeup, medical technology, phaser pistol styling, et cetera, ad nauseam, some folks like to pretend that every pointless retcon from the Discoverse is somehow fair game.
In the case of the Klingon change, because they didn't stop the entire frakking movie to explain it to the people in the back or have a whole side quest about it, and because at that point it was years between films and yadda-yadda-yadda, it was simpler to just leave it be. Nevertheless, despite the fact that the Klingon change literally got explained later, some people keep trying to get bloodwine from that turnip. There isn't any in there.
A future explanation doesn't actually satisfy every viewer.
Why is it absurd? It's a fact they made the Klingons look different and the explanation was "that's how they always looked." it was a production decision that didn't require an explanation. But then decades later someone got the bright idea that it did need a side quest and a two-parter to explain something that didn't need an explanation. We don't need that crap. Just roll with it. They modified the make up. End of story.
Roddenberry joked about northern and southern Klingons, but inasmuch as a canonical explanation, there never was one.
Nor should there be.
Well, that's how we got the explanation for the Romulans and I'm sure that causes no questions at all.
I don't, and don't call me Shirley.
Ah, so all the changes in Andorian makeup from TOS to the movies to the Berman era and beyond will be explained someday, and it won't just be that someone made a change to the makeup, it will literally be explained later. Good to know.
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