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Klingon change for season 2?
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I love it. Klingons are just slaves to styling trends. 2256, the year shaved heads was THE hot look! In 25 years, will the Klingons look back on this period as we look back on The Rachel today?
I'm going to say this helps canon for me. It makes it less strange that Worf spent so many years on TNG putting curlers in every morning, if the Klingons are actually a warrior-and-fashionista race.
God do I hope so. I can't believe how many times you could see the prosthetics around her lips pulling away during season 1. I can't imagine what ended up on the cutting room floor, if those were the usable takes.
Ironically, it's something I was trained to look for by Glenn Hetrick's judging on "Face Off." The Klingon makeup is riddled with the same mistakes he was always dragging contestants for making.
I'm going to say this helps canon for me. It makes it less strange that Worf spent so many years on TNG putting curlers in every morning, if the Klingons are actually a warrior-and-fashionista race.
God do I hope so. I can't believe how many times you could see the prosthetics around her lips pulling away during season 1. I can't imagine what ended up on the cutting room floor, if those were the usable takes.
Ironically, it's something I was trained to look for by Glenn Hetrick's judging on "Face Off." The Klingon makeup is riddled with the same mistakes he was always dragging contestants for making.
I think they were changing the make up in general as season 1 went along. So no surprise they continued to do that into season 2. They still have the overall look they had in season but perhaps less of the material or layers or they're producing it a different way.
I do think when people see change they shouldn't go overboard and think suddenly they're going to look like TNG era. They're not they still look like Discovery era with changes. This is just a general statement that people should remember. Hair seemingly goes a long way with some.
It's amazing to me, with all the complaining about how big a change it is, just how much the Discovery Klingons with hair look like evolutions of the Westmore-era Klingons. Even during TNG he was adding more and crazier ridges, ever larger hair, prosthetics across the nose, etc. It's not hard to imagine that if the TNG/DS9/VOY era had continued that it would have arrived at a look very similar to what we're seeing here.
All it took was hair?Well. It seems they did what I wished they would do. They look like Klingons now.
The makeup is still identical.
Yes. The lack of hair was the biggest issue. Klingons are famed for their luscious locks.
Yes, as established in many, many, threads, hair is the quintessential facet of Star Trek aliens that make or break a design. No variation is acceptable.
Design variations in the Klingons is perfectly ok with me. We have humans who are white, black, asian, hispanic, etc. Individual with hair, without hair, etc. Humanity is a wide range of varying cultures. So why not the klingons too?
I just look at each different design being a different ethnicity or sub-species of the Klingon people.
That being said, it was really nice seeing some familiar klingon ship and character designs in the NYCC trailer for Discovery
I just look at each different design being a different ethnicity or sub-species of the Klingon people.
That being said, it was really nice seeing some familiar klingon ship and character designs in the NYCC trailer for Discovery
"Always go into battle looking your best."
Insert music from The Donna Reed Show into the background.
Sir, the Klingon D7 is decloaking...
That’s not a D7...it’s a VO5! Hot oil off the starboard bow!
Today is a good day to dye!
Long hair is actually shit for warriors. Makes it much easier to subdue someone by grabbing a lock of their hair. And it can just get tangled in shit. And it can get in your eyes. Basically there's a reason the Romans came up with the idea of soldiers with closely-cropped hair.
Of course, maybe Klingon hair doesn't work like ours. It may come out very easily if yanked violently, meaning it's not as much of a disadvantage. And Klingon hair is at least never in their eyes due to their honking forheads and lack of a part.
And they fashion it into weapons using lava or something. I’d be careful where you grab ‘old Ridgeyhead McDoublebits in combat.
Welcome to the Klingon fashion world. 
The Klingons -- post-TOS -- were modeled after Samurai, who have long hair. Of course, theirs was tied back. Maybe Klingons move so well their enemies can't grab them. I don't know. I'm biased. I think long hair is cool and short hair really isn't.
I have really short hair. I should now engage in mock outrage directed at you.
But....despite the short hair, I'm actually still pretty cool!
Some Klingons have been seen with hair tied back, and Worf usually did it when exercising.
I have very short hair, to the point that if I wear anything with the military on it I'm asked if I served.
I shall support your mock outrage.
Ahhh, two-to-one! I like those odds... Hold on, wait a minute... Shit! 
Hold on, wait a minute... Shit! 
That made me think of this for some stupid reason...
I wonder how long it took to wash that grease off her hand?
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