If Klingons show up in Abramsverse films would you want ridges or not?

[Shazam!]

Re: If Klingons show up in Abramsverse films would you want ridges or

The Klingons need another reinvention.

More of THIS, less of THIS.

That's insane.

 

[bigdaddy]

Re: If Klingons show up in Abramsverse films would you want ridges or

If there are Klingons?!?! There needs to be Klingons!!!

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Re: If Klingons show up in Abramsverse films would you want ridges or

The Klingons need another reinvention.

More of THIS, less of THIS.

Yes!

Haha, dear Lord, no!

As they say in Oceania, doublefuckno.

 

[T'Girl]

Re: If Klingons show up in Abramsverse films would you want ridges or

I vote for ridges. It's the most easily recognizable look, and the new movie's continuity should go for that. No need to pander to the "canon violation!" crowd.

If anything, the ridges from TMP on would be the canon violation.

In retrospect, what I think they should have done in T&T is have Worf suddenly look like a 1960's Klingon...and have no one mention it, like he's looked like that the whole time.

That would have been so cool, especially when Sisko and company think it perfectly normal.

I recently had some thoughts on where to take the Klingons in the Abramsverse... I expect they'll create an entirely new look, maybe a different behaviour to the race too.

One of the very few things I liked about the Kazon was during the episode "Initiations", they came off as a street gang. An interesting change for the Klingons might be to make them even more primitive, think hells angel biker gang, Los Angeles drug gangs, with a little Norwegian vikings thrown in. A ancient culture with warp drive.


T'Girl

 

[Shazam!]

Re: If Klingons show up in Abramsverse films would you want ridges or

One of the very few things I liked about the Kazon was during the episode "Initiations", they came off as a street gang. An interesting change for the Klingons might be to make them even more primitive, think hells angel biker gang, Los Angeles drug gangs, with a little Norwegian vikings thrown in. A ancient culture with warp drive.

I'd actually do the opposite and make them more advanced. Constant harping on about superstitious nonsense and Kahless and honour and tradition got old real fast.

 

[Mysterion]

Re: If Klingons show up in Abramsverse films would you want ridges or

Both. Side by side. Just to piss off the hardcore continuity nerds and Enterprise haters.

 

[urbandk]

Re: If Klingons show up in Abramsverse films would you want ridges or

I wondered in Trials and Tribbleations, even with that bandana, wouldn't Worf be recognizable as a Klingon?

Anyhow, I agree with Mysterion. And there should be everything in between, like General Chang.

 

[Kelso]

Re: If Klingons show up in Abramsverse films would you want ridges or

The Klingons need another reinvention.

More of THIS, less of THIS.

That's insane.

It's insane to want Klingons who don't look like Mongolians on Halloween?

I don't think the Klingons should look exactly like LOTR's Uruk Hai, that was just an example of a make-up job that was far more effective than anything done for the Klingons on Star Trek (Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes would be another good example).

 

[Shazam!]

Re: If Klingons show up in Abramsverse films would you want ridges or

It's insane to want Klingons who don't look like Mongolians on Halloween?

But that's what they look like : /

If it had been a full on reboot (which it should've been) then they could do whatever they wanted with them, but to suggest that the Kelvin blowing up would somehow affect millions of years of Klingon evolution is mental.

But, y'know, whatever, let them do whatever they want.

 

[Pemmer Harge]

Re: If Klingons show up in Abramsverse films would you want ridges or

In retrospect, what I think they should have done in T&T is have Worf suddenly look like a 1960's Klingon...and have no one mention it, like he's looked like that the whole time.

I really wish this had happened. Klingons have always looked the same, it's just our perceptions that have changed.

 

[Mirren Audax]

Re: If Klingons show up in Abramsverse films would you want ridges or

Both. Side by side. Just to piss off the hardcore continuity nerds and Enterprise haters.

My thoughts exactly - there's a big Abramsverse out there; a world to win, an empire to build...

 

[DarKush]

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I wouldn't mind seeing both, but I would like the smooth-paned Klingons to be more prominent.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

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Abrahamsverse has ALREADY done Klingons. They are in an unfinished deleted scene from Star Trek XI. See this fromtoday:

http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=3480899&postcount=64

Only the visual effects weren't finished.

 

[I am not Spock]

Re: If Klingons show up in Abramsverse films would you want ridges or

I liked the Abrams take on the Klingon design, in the stills from the deleted scene I have seen.

I hope we see Klingons like those ones in the next film.

I think they need to be more terrifying, more fearsome. Klingons talk about being great warriors, but we always see a bunch of Hells Angel-Viking-80s metalheads getting their asses handed to them by the heroes. The Uruk Hai were a good example, Kelso. Klingons, for want of a better word, need to be more MEAN.

I'm with Shazam that the Klingons need to be advanced a bit more. Looking at the way they were presented in TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT, they were like ancient samurai or Vikings with warp capable ships. I wondered how the hell they ever evolved to that level. (Maybe they didn't. Maybe they stole Hur'Q technology, as one theory stipulates).

 

[urbandk]

Re: If Klingons show up in Abramsverse films would you want ridges or

If there were ruffles in the abramsverse, would klingons want ridges?

 

[C.E. Evans]

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It's interesting that in TOS, the smooth-headed Klingons were originally sneaky and cowardly (it was Kang in "Day of the Dove" that we saw our first honorable Klingon warrior)...in Star Trek III, the ridge-headed Klingons were back to being sneaky again but they maintained the warrior aspect...from TNG onwards, they were pretty much space vikings.

If the Klingons do make an official appearance in the new universe, they'll probably stay as space vikings and they'll probably keep the ridges. But I can see the Klingons being given an upgrade to being the #1 threat to the Federation (even bigger than Nero was)...

 

[RobertScorpio]

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my wife has spoked..she "likes" ridges (yeah, you know what I mean)..so give the fricken klingon ridges WHERE IT COUNTS...is her demand

Rob

 

[TenLubak]

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I hope they have ridges but dusty skin and short black hair in TOS. A combo sorts. Maybe they will even name one of them Kor ! That would be super!

 

[Sabataage]

Re: If Klingons show up in Abramsverse films would you want ridges or

The Klingons need another reinvention.

More of THIS, less of THIS.

That's insane.

More like GENIUS!

 

[jefferiestubes8]

scene inserted on DVD?

According to this article the Klingon scene played by Victor Garber will be inserted into the film (director's cut?)
http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2009/10/16/william-shatner-victor-garber-star-trek-dvd/