Anyone else annoyed that there are no TOS Klingons in SNW yet?
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So, you're saying it's Star Trek.
So, you're saying it's Star Trek.
Well, I'm saying that they threw Bashir under the bus. Doubtful that it was deliberate, but that's what the end result was.
That can't be!So, you're saying it's Star Trek.
I have it on good authority that Star Trek is only for the most intelligent people. It would never, ever, make characters look stupid in the name of plot!
That bus is always ready to go for the sake of a gag. See Uhura in TUC.
Sometimes not
But lets talk about McCoy then. A guy who should also have access to data on Klingon physiology from Phox and his own scans in TTWT. Yet doesn't have a clue on how to save Gorkon.
You brought up the bus, writers and gags. So it's now fair game.I'm not talking about Uhura, because she has nothing to do with how the Klingons looked, which is the subject of this thread.
But lets talk about McCoy then. A guy who should also have access to data on Klingon physiology from Phox and his own scans in TTWT. Yet doesn't have a clue on how to save Gorkon.
That's correct. He didn't have the medical knowledge at the time because the Federation and the Klingons were enemies. That should not have been the case by Bashir's time.
And recognizes at least the basics to out Darvin so he knew something.
They weren't enemies when Earth captured Klaang. McCoy literally scans Darvin in TTWT and declares him a Klingon. Darvin was in Federation custody for years and no doubt other Klingons were as well. Ample time for Starfleet medical to build a database on the needs of Klingons.
So why didn't Bashir know about how TOS Klingons looked?
Again, it was not an area of medicine he studied.
But that's just supposition. We don't know that. And logically, at the very least he should have known that Klingons once looked like greasy humans, whether he was a doctor or not. Certainly Dax would have known, so why not Bashir?
Seeing them in person may be different from studying them in books - perhaps the image his texts used differed even from the ones we saw in TOS.
He admits not being a student of history so clearly he didn't care to look.
Or he's an idiot.
Take your pick.
He's clearly not an idiot. And we're clearly not meant to think he's an idiot in the context of the scene in T&T. It was a funny joke, nothing more. Until the aforementioned ENT bus rolled over him.
Has Bashir ever indicated he has a keen interest in the history of the Klingon Empire? That he should know that Klingons looked like "greasy humans" in the past is also supposition.
Dax is a Klingo-phile. Bashir, not so much. Why should person A know as much about topic B as person C? I'm a Beatles fan, I can go on for days about the Beatles. My coworker knows next to nothing about the Beatles.
Weirdos.
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