Discovery Klingons: Flat or Bumpy?
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"Head" canon. Hah.
What isn't?
A small percentage resisted the infection. They became the elite, and who but the elite would be sent to deal diplomatically or otherwise with James Kirk. 
Why wouldn't they have the budget? It's not like someone said, "gosh we'd give them bumps but we don't have the money". IIRC the look for the Klingons was devised by actor John Colicos and make up man Fred Phillips. I don't think bumps were ever discussed. After all, they were dealing out pig snouts, giant heads,odd skin tones and the occasional wig of weird hair, so I think they could have glued a bump on a forehead if they wanted .
They even hired short statured people to play short aliens. Something we don 't even see in any of the spin-offs.
I really want to see more of those Golden Midgets.
Well, the Ferengi are not midgets but there are definitely much shorter than average.
The Ferengi hiring policy kept only actors under a certain height being considered. (Just as Klingons had a minimum height requirement. Except for Kahless for some reason.
)And then there were those little guys from Insurrection.
The Ferengi hiring policy kept only actors under a certain height being considered. (Just as Klingons had a minimum height requirement. Except for Kahless for some reason.
And then there were those little guys from Insurrection.
Journey to Babel: We can see people that are less than one meter tall.
Yeah, I know. That's the example we started with.
Me too. Drinking their alcoholic ice cream sodas, (or jawbreaker candies and Vodka). However I think they are called little people these days.
Ithenites.
It always looked like balls of some kind of modeling clay to me. Maybe that can be part of the storyline.
Exactly. The Klingon lack of ridges in TOS had nothing to do with the budget, and everything to do with the simple fact that nobody had come up with a particular design for them yet. The script for Errand of Mercy only described them as "hard-faced, Oriental."
(Just as Klingons had a minimum height requirement. Except for Kahless for some reason.
On average, humans have gotten taller since industrialization. Maybe the same thing happened with the Klingons. Since "Kahless" was made from ancient genetic material, a smaller Klingon came out of the cloning vat.
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the smooth headed klingons
While I have my qualms about the explanation of the Klingon foreheads in Star Trek: Enterprise, I absolutely loved the portrayal of smooth-headed Klingons in that series, and the way they were portrayed as calculating and ruthless, much Kang, Kor and Krell (sorry Koloth, you're a great character but you don't belong on that list).
I'd enjoy seeing an approach similar to the FASA treatment of fusions, where Klingons with human DNA were posted along the Klingon-Federation border because they were better at understanding humans and could infiltrate them more easily.
Actually a smooth-foreheaded Klingon spy on the Discovery would be quite interesting. Not sure how he'd hide his origins during medical check-ups, but I'm sure there's a solution for that.
I'd enjoy seeing an approach similar to the FASA treatment of fusions, where Klingons with human DNA were posted along the Klingon-Federation border because they were better at understanding humans and could infiltrate them more easily.
Actually a smooth-foreheaded Klingon spy on the Discovery would be quite interesting. Not sure how he'd hide his origins during medical check-ups, but I'm sure there's a solution for that.
I prefer the idea that the Augment Virus only hit some small portion of the population, and for a while that portion of the population remained separate, but eventually interbred with the mainline population, giving us first the "Movie" era Klingons and later everyone back to baseline.
The return of Kor, Koloth and Kang in DS9 sort of ruined that, though.
The return of Kor, Koloth and Kang in DS9 sort of ruined that, though.
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