Discovery Klingons: Flat or Bumpy?

[ChristopherPike]

Mixed. Not so bumpy, when your Klingon is being played by an A-list movie star, because recognisable raises the show's profile

 

[flandry84]

Talk about a failure of imagination...that people cannot get past the make-up deficiency and retrofit the "bumpy" Klingon look into their image of Klingons.
Not everything needs to be sooo p e d a n t i c!

 

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

...but I would want the Klingons to go more Feudal and have the feel of Kor and Kang from TOS. They have the barbaric edge, but they give the impression of Intelligent, thinking men, with more depth to them. Contrary to what most people remember of the TOS Klings, the higher profile ones were actually very charismatic and intelligent, which is how they made the transition from TOS badguys to DS9 goodguys without it coming off weird.

Yes, this is what I want from DSC Klingons, a smarter breed than the ones we saw after TOS. You could explain the difference with the flathead affliction, which is now canon btw, whether or not you think it was a contrived explanation for the change in appearance.

Consequently I voted for the flathead option. Since the major players in TOS were flatheads (Kor, Koloth, Kang etc) I don't think they were outcasts. I think they used their smarts to take over. Eventually, by TMP, they'd found a cure and started to regrow their ridges. We even saw the old TOS Klingons later on DS9 with updated ridges.

 

[Annorax849]

Ideally flat or mixture.

 

[RJDiogenes]

The Klingon captain should be bumpy, go home sick one day, and come back flat.

"What happened to you?"

"We don't talk about it with outsiders!"

 

[galad2003]

I liked how Enterprise explained it with augment virus explanation so I would prefer flat forehead. I am not that vested in it so I will take either, mix or whatever. Certainly not a deal breaker.

 

[Oso Blanco]

Klingons with bumpy helmets, which they never, ever, take off.

I wish they had never, ever taken their helmets off in STID.

If they go bumpy, they need to update the look a la Into Darkness. Pie-heads with perms do not make for convincing or scary aliens in 2016. They look goofy.

I hope you're just being sarcastic.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I want both. I'd even like to see how the more the Human-looking Klingons start to lose their dominance in the Empire.

 

[Mudd]

If they go bumpy, they need to update the look a la Into Darkness. Pie-heads with perms do not make for convincing or scary aliens in 2016. They look goofy.

This is true. The old TV bump heads won't cut it.

 

[Kemaiku]

Yet they're going out of their way to produce TOS style Andorians with fixed headband large antenna instead of the vastly superior Enterprise versions, so they're already recreating the old aliens as they were. Wouldn't hold out on things being so "new" when they said that word 500 times and gave is warmed over shit on every front so far.

 

[urbandefault]

Flumpy.

 

[Kevin Wolff]

I voted bump only because in DS9 Koloth, Kor and Kang were bumpy (granted, this is long before Trials and Tribs). However, in terms of storytelling, the flat versus bumpy would be an excellent inroad to Klingon internal bigotry towards not only those who aren't warriors, but those who simply look different. Think that's too weak to work? Think back to Rwanda in the 90's while TNG was still on the air. Hutu versus Tutsi executions based on width of nose. We are still in the infancy of tolerance. Stay Trek needs to reflect that.
All seriousness aside, maybe the bumpies got annoyed at the flats for their scenery-chewing flamboyance (I'm looking at you, Koloth) that they displayed in order to cover up their cranial ridge-envy.

 

[TheSubCommander]

This is true. The old TV bump heads won't cut it.

???

I thought the STID klingon ridges didn't look all that far off from the TMP-ENT era ridges. It was the fact they were BALD and wore different uniforms that made them look so different.

Considering the devastation of Qonos and moon (praxis?) in STID, for all we know, we could have been looking at Klingons with radiation sickness, given their lack of hair.

 

[Ovation]

Yet they're going out of their way to produce TOS style Andorians with fixed headband large antenna instead of the vastly superior Enterprise versions, so they're already recreating the old aliens as they were. Wouldn't hold out on things being so "new" when they said that word 500 times and gave is warmed over shit on every front so far.

???

 

[Seven of Five]

Yeah now I think about it, if they take all previous Trek onboard, being as we know this is set so close to TOS now, surely we'd have to have smooth foreheads.

I hope they just do what they want though as I wasn't a fan of the ENT explanation that went way too far into fan service.

 

[Kemaiku]

???

Could you have put any less effort into that at all?

 

[Ovation]

Could you have put any less effort into that at all?

?

 

[Ovation]

Could you have put any less effort into that at all?

I found the entirety of your post puzzling--it got the effort it deserved.

It would have been nice if you'd bothered to link to the statement about the Andorians (I haven't seen anything referring to them--lots about many other things in the new series, zip about the Andorians). Also, your accusation of everything being "warmed over shit on every front so far" seems...highly exaggerated (especially without any clear examples). Thus "???".

 

[urbandefault]

I forget the exact wording, but the impression I got was they are reimagining, or reinventing, the familiar aliens. I hope there isn't much callback/forward in the new show.

There's already way too much effort by fans trying to connect dots that may or may not be there, what with all the onscreen and novels and comics and other various and sundry 50 years of Trek. Let's have some new stuff to play with and leave the old stuff on the shelf.

 

[Ovation]

Well, I think I shall do as I did with the other "new" series when they arrived. I know it's a radical idea and all, but I believe I will continue reserving judgement until I've (gasp) actually seen the show.