Klingons--bumpy or smooth?

[ChristopherPike]

Fucking Enterprise...

With luck, a thought that goes through the heads of several CBS television executives...


every


single


day.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

The Cohorts have said that Enterprise did still happen in this alternate timeline exactly as depicted in the show, so it would seem that yes, Klingons did go to smooth heads at some point in this alterate timeline. Now, it's possible that Nero's attack on the Kelvin set quantum mechanics in motion in such a way that the Klingons were able to solve the issue and gain their ridges back a lot sooner than they did in the Prime Verse...

The way I understood the events of Affliction/Divergence not every Klingon lost his ridges anyway... only those who were infected with the virus. But not every Klingon in the Empire was infected.

This doesn't really explain why there were no ridged Klingons in TOS at all, but it gives future writers the freedom to use any type of Klingon they want... smooth-headed, ridge-headed, or even a mixed population.

 

[ChristopherPike]

This doesn't really explain why there were no ridged Klingons in TOS at all, but it gives future writers the freedom to use any type of Klingon they want... smooth-headed, ridge-headed, or even a mixed population.

It adds spice to a race, who in my opinion became same old during modern Trek. Anyone remember a DS9 episode called Once More Unto the Breach? In it some backstory was established how resentment between Kor and Martok began. Martok was not from an Imperial house, and discriminated against because he didn't have "royal" blood. Say for instance, this augment disease was the basis for a caste system? A turnabout of fortune, where those who were without ridges, came to power throughout the Original Series.

 

[pookha]

The Cohorts have said that Enterprise did still happen in this alternate timeline exactly as depicted in the show, so it would seem that yes, Klingons did go to smooth heads at some point in this alterate timeline. Now, it's possible that Nero's attack on the Kelvin set quantum mechanics in motion in such a way that the Klingons were able to solve the issue and gain their ridges back a lot sooner than they did in the Prime Verse...

The way I understood the events of Affliction/Divergence not every Klingon lost his ridges anyway... only those who were infected with the virus. But not every Klingon in the Empire was infected.

This doesn't really explain why there were no ridged Klingons in TOS at all, but it gives future writers the freedom to use any type of Klingon they want... smooth-headed, ridge-headed, or even a mixed population.

if they were in the minority it could.
we really didnt see that many klingons .

the most we ever saw was in day of the dove.