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Poll If a half Klingon/half Human appeared on Discovery what kind of Klingon would it look like?

If a half Klingon/half Human appeared on Discovery what kind of Klingon would it look like?

  • A Klingon from the Original Series

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • A Klingon from Star Trek The Motion Picture

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • A Klingon from Star Trek 3 through 6

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • A Klingon from Star Trek Into Darkness

    Votes: 3 30.0%
  • A Klingon from the Next Generation Era

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • A half Klingon/half Human from the Next Generation Era

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • A Dark Skinned Klingon from Star Trek Discovery (no change)

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • A White Skinned Klingon from Star Trek Discovery

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 1 10.0%

  • Total voters
    10

marsh8472

Fleet Captain
Fleet Captain
I was thinking about Voyager episode "Prophecy" and the way T'Greth noticed that B'elanna Torres was part Klingon just by looking at her ridges.

T'GRETH: Look at her ridges. Morak was right. Your blood is not pure.
TORRES: No, my father was human.
T'GRETH: Couldn't you see this for yourself?
KOHLAR: Yes, but
T'GRETH: Why didn't you tell us?
KOHLAR: It wasn't important.
T'GRETH: Not important? We destroyed our ship because you said she was the mother of the Kuvah'Magh.
KOHLAR: Show me where it's written that the Kuvah'Magh must have pure Klingon blood.
T'GRETH: The Prophecy wouldn't lead us to a mongrel child.

I figure the ancestors of those Klingons came from sometime between where Star Trek Discovery takes place and where Star Trek 2 takes place. The Klingon appearance has changed multiple times in their history by the time their ancestors began their journey to the Delta Quadrent. A half Klingon on TNG looks most similar to the pure Klingons of Star Trek 3 to Star Trek 6 and yet T'Greth knew she was not fully Klingon anyway. Any guesses on what kind of Klingon a half human/half Klingon would look like on Star Trek Discovery? Also how did those Klingons on VOY "Prophecy" know what a part Klingon looked like?

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^Albino Klingon from Star Trek Discovery
 
I would imagine that it would look much like the DSC Klingons, but perhaps a little "softer".
I have a feeling that the writers of Discovery would tell you that klingons and humans cannot reproduce.
 
Like a Xenomorph from Aliens. Their heads went from smooth/polished to ridged/rough between films.
 
In my mind, there are only two ways a Klingon looks like: ridged and non-ridged. Everything else is to be ignored per Roddenberry's edict ("they've always looked that way", i.e. a visual retcon). Klingons have hair, per DS9, but it's possible that the Discovery Klingons do not have hair due to genetic tampering and an attempt at a cure from the Augment virus (implemented to meld with Worf's comment in Trials and Tribble-ations).

The Klingons in "Prophecy" are "pure Klingons", not the viral augments seen in Enterprise and TOS. The Klingons in Discovery might also be pure, or perhaps a transitional phase trying to get back to what a Klingon should look like. The Prophecy Klingons know what a partial Klingon looks like, because they dealt with them on a daily basis before leaving the quadrant. They may not have known she was a hybrid, but they could tell by her subtle ridges that her blood was "not pure" (i.e. she or her ancestors could have been infected by the augment virus).
 
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