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Klingon redundancies
- Thread starter WarpFactorZ
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This does make me wonder how the redundant organs handle load-balancing and certain medical conditions. For example, do both hearts pump equal amounts of blood? When you go to the bathroom, do you poop and pee out of both sets of the respective organs, or just one of them? What about certain ailments, like digestive disorders or blood pressure issues - If you have high blood pressure or something, how do physicians diagnose or even treat the source of it? And how in the hell do doctors even begin to address random aches and pains when they have twice as many organs to deal with?
Not to mention that Klingon doctors are lousy if we are to believe Martok, and he doesn't seem like the kind to complain about booboos.
They do.
When they get punched enough their outer face falls off and they also grow hair.
#DiscoKlingonsExplained
It's also possible that they're usually sitting on the other one...
it depends on the nature of the damage to the nerves, I would imagine.
There is only one heart, but it has 8 chambers as its redundancy.
As a predator species it would be advantageous.
No we don't.Too late, and now we also have to picture Worf as a pissed off hairless California raisin
If the Klingons have twice as many organs as we do and since we are filled with organs (no holes inside our bodies), doesn't that mean that these organs are much smaller than ours? That's something to think about. BTW, do they have two brains too? It's better to have one big brain than two small ones!
I'd change doctors if I were him...
Admittedly, she was the Visiting Evil Bitch character, entitled to ignorance and other vices.
How Crusher phrases it tells of redundancies in functions, not of backing up of organs by duplicates:
"Unnecessary? The Klingons refer to it as the brak'lul. Almost every vital function in their bodies has a built-in redundancy in case any primary organ or system fails."
Sounds a bit like the gall bladder could take over if the kidneys underperform, not that there would be six kidneys.
What the Visiting Villainess says is telling, too:
"Twenty three ribs, two livers, eight-chambered heart, double-lined neural pia mater."
If there were also two brains or two stomachs or three lungs, one would think those would make it to this list...
...Although evidently, two of those items were, and did not!
Should we perhaps accept that Worf did not have three lungs, while Torres possibly did not have two livers?
Timo Saloniemi
How Crusher phrases it tells of redundancies in functions, not of backing up of organs by duplicates:
"Unnecessary? The Klingons refer to it as the brak'lul. Almost every vital function in their bodies has a built-in redundancy in case any primary organ or system fails."
Sounds a bit like the gall bladder could take over if the kidneys underperform, not that there would be six kidneys.
What the Visiting Villainess says is telling, too:
"Twenty three ribs, two livers, eight-chambered heart, double-lined neural pia mater."
If there were also two brains or two stomachs or three lungs, one would think those would make it to this list...
...Although evidently, two of those items were, and did not!
Should we perhaps accept that Worf did not have three lungs, while Torres possibly did not have two livers?
Timo Saloniemi
That's not how this works. Redundancy simply means that there is a backup in case of primary system loss. So, it could mean smaller organs, or organs that can double up in times of crisis.
So, we don't need to double down on everything in Klingon anatomy.
Umm... yes we do... this is Star Trek and if we can't take a handful of throw away references and argue about them for years, what is wrong with us?
Perhaps Klingons have a "butt brain," an extra bundle of nerves near the posterior, like we used to think that some dinosaurs may have had (this is not the current thinking in palentology, in case anyone was wondering).
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