Maybe Romulans wonder why a majority of the Starfleet officers they run into are white Americans?
Anyone else annoyed that there are no TOS Klingons in SNW yet?
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Damn UFP DEI!
Especially Red Squad
We're seeing in Strange New Worlds that M'Benga and Chapel can just inject gobbledygook into away team members to turn them into the species they're infiltrating. Why don't the Klingons have these serums too? It should be pretty easy to change the augment virus victims' appearance back into ridged appearance with it.
Must not work with Klingons.
In "The Enterprise Incident(TOS)" it's now my head canon that McCoy gives Kirk a serum shot to turn him into a Romulan and then another to reverse the first and restore his human ears and eyebrows.
Why would the Klingons trust that process?
Exactly.
The last time a human serum was injected into a Klingon it accidentally led to a century of looking like a different species.
A slick and crafty species.
It only seems to work on turning humans into Vulcans. We've already seen in the preview that was released in the summer it doesn't work on Lanthanites, and they're virtually identical to humans. Stands to reason it won't work on Klingons either.
Fair enough.
Up until Trials and Tribblations, the obvious easy explanation was that Klingons always had ridges . It was always there and we just didn't see it as the audience and the change in appearance could of been treated as a visual retcon. Similar to in-universe characters not noticing any visual differences when there's a casting change like Saavik, Ziyal or all the SNW legacy characters. We see Kirstey Alley's or Robin Curtis's likeness. But who knows what the fictional characters "see". This could be the standard approach for handling all visual changes. To a smaller extent, they have already done this with Worf's season 2 forehead ridge redesign.
I'm guessing when they made " Trials " they felt going back in time and "redoing/updating" the original "Troube with Tribbles" Klingons was either to difficult technically or just too jarring and maybe even a bit of poor taste if they didn't honor the orginal look on an anniversary episode no less . And having all the DS9 characters not noticing the real life differences especially with Worf being there wouldn't quite ring true either. So they took the opportunity to mention the change as a minor mystery/ inside joke. And then Enterprise went a step further and made up an official reason.
I'm guessing when they made " Trials " they felt going back in time and "redoing/updating" the original "Troube with Tribbles" Klingons was either to difficult technically or just too jarring and maybe even a bit of poor taste if they didn't honor the orginal look on an anniversary episode no less . And having all the DS9 characters not noticing the real life differences especially with Worf being there wouldn't quite ring true either. So they took the opportunity to mention the change as a minor mystery/ inside joke. And then Enterprise went a step further and made up an official reason.
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They have 7 years. The ship will undoubtedly go through another refit. It will most likely look closer to the TOS enterprise at that point. None of us can claim to know their agenda.
Maybe Solo would have done better if the interior of the Millennium Falcon looked like an Apple iPhone store under young Lando's ownership and the drastic difference in interior look is handwaved as a refit Han conducted before the original Star Wars trilogy.
Solo just junked the ship in 10 years. Look what he did to it in a one flying. Lol
I've said this before, but I honestly think the best thing that Strange New Worlds could do to settle this debate is have a single episode where it looks exactly like The Original Series. They could film it in Ticonderoga to get the look of the original sets. Put everyone in TOS uniforms with matching 60's style haircuts. Use all the musical cues from TOS. Hell, they could even film an actual model for the exterior shots. Do ALL this, but do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to draw attention to it. Just film the episode like they normally would and have everything back to normal by the next episode.
It'd settle the debate but it wouldn't make people happy.
People don't want to be happy.
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