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Klingon change for season 2?
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SPLEEEEEEEENNNNN!!!!!!
Not now that they are pulling back on it, but season one had several opportunities to subtly show that the Klingons had a diverse look but they chose not to for whatever reason. With the runners stating that Klingons were bald now due to sensory pits on their noggins, it was reasonable to assume that DISCO Klingons were uniform. Thankfully, they have seen the light.
Let me rephrase. There is no on screen evidence that was the only Klingons at the time.Not now that they are pulling back on it, but season one had several opportunities to subtly show that the Klingons had a diverse look but they chose not to for whatever reason. With the runners stating that Klingons were bald now due to sensory pits on their noggins, it was reasonable to assume that DISCO Klingons were uniform. Thankfully, they have seen the light.
They never said they were naturally bald though.
T'Kuvma's cathedral ship was full of lice.
That thing was like 200 years old. You expect it to be clean?T'Kuvma's cathedral ship was full of lice.
This is Star Trek, so it's Tiberian lice.T'Kuvma's cathedral ship was full of lice.
Not with that dead corpse dumping room.
I agree, but we're speaking of assumptions.
(Also, I don't remember the klingons shaving in TOS' "Errand of Mercy", so that tradition must have faded waaaay faster. Fashion...)
Or shaving is a tradition that not everyone follows. We have seen examples (intentional and otherwise) of certain Klingon customs and ideas not being followed by every member.
We tend to forget that the Klingons depicted on screen are a tiny percentage of an actual race. Not sure why congruence of all cultural ideals should be expected to be adhered to by every member.
I think Fuller wanted them bald and he wanted it to be a biological aspect. The whole ‘Kahless wartime shaving thing’ is retconning, but I don’t care... They found a perfect loophole, and they went out of their way to adjust something many fans weren’t happy with.. I appriciate this greatly!
Stupid Vulcanians!
The issue with this is that all the Klingon houses who met T'Kuvma at the very start were all bald too... before the war began.Mary posted this on Twitter, fan asked about the hair issue in relation to DS9.
https://twitter.com/marythechief/status/1049441015998730240?s=19
They were already at war with each other. That's why T'Kuvma needed to unify the houses in the first place. Now that L'Rell stopped the war and unified them all in one go, they have no enemies left.
I am, in fact, joking because I don't think this needs a thorough explanation at all. Every society has fashions, memes and traditions that come and go. Even the angry serious barbaric ones. But for anyone who truly feels the need for an explanation, it works just fine.
They were warring houses though, so maybe that counts. I personally don't care about the rationalization too much, I just want them to look more aesthetically pleasing to my eye.
Precisely so. Not everything needs an explanation nor will any explanation satisfy all.
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