Saw this bollywood movie not to long ago with this guy that looked like an Indian Arnold, like a clone even except a different color
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I think sometimes an impression is given that they are stronger by certain things that are said in episodes.* Maybe it's just bragging/hot air on the part of the Klingons to intimidate other species.
*This sounds like bragging on Worf's part, when he told Riker that human females were far too fragile to be considered mates or something to that effect.
Although novels are not considered canon. In one of the Voyager novels, Marooned, it is implied that Torres as a half Klingon is as strong as Tuvok.
Come to think of it, Torres beat the snot out of Vorik in the 3rd season episode Blood Fever.
I think Klingons are on average a bit stronger than humans but not much. Maybe their homeworld has gravity in the 1.15-1.25 earth's range.
When Torres clobbered Vorik he was half-crazed and blood-blind from the Pon farr (he really looked out of it to me, like he wasn't all there), and she had both Academy training and whatever dirty tricks her years in the Maquis might have instilled to call on. I do find it hard to think of Klingons as anywhere approaching Vulcan strength in light of some of Spock's feats in TOS, especially what he did in This Side of Paradise, where as I recall he bends a (for the viewer) metal bar with a single, not particularly leveraged blow. Also just pounding that computer down with what 3 bashes in Amok Time? Doubt Klingons can do that.
Onscreen, no Klingon or other character has claimed that Klingons would be particularly strong. Tough, perhaps, but not strong. Kruge in ST3 was strong, and amazed his crew with this fact, strangling giant worms and whatnot. An individual quirk, then, rather than a species characteristic. Kirk still defeated him in hand-to-hand...
When Worf complains that human women are fragile, we're not to think simply that Klingon sex would be too physical for them, breaking their fragile bones - Dax was a Trill (or whatever the species of the Jadzia, Kurzon and Dax hosts was - looked Kriosian), and only suffered an expected amount of broken bones, the same as Worf himself (and, from what Bashir muttered, more or less the norm for Klingons). Rather, Klingon men want their women to be extremely aggressive and physically violent in sex, and a human, even a muscular one, might be too "fragile" mentally as well as physically to keep up the attack that Worf would expect.
Vulcanoids are strong whenever the writers remember to make them - Spock triumphs in fights, Nero's crew were supermen all, and so forth. T'Pol sometimes failed to demonstrate physical strength when she ought to have, but perhaps she had a physical disability? And males in plak tow probably become not just crazy, but unable to utilize their strength well, which is why Kirk is not dead and Torres (who also thought she was a Vulcan male in plak tow) did not lose. Yet when Worf tries to wrestle open a stuck door and fails, Riker (a slightly bigger man) steps in a completes the job...
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When Worf complains that human women are fragile, we're not to think simply that Klingon sex would be too physical for them, breaking their fragile bones - Dax was a Trill (or whatever the species of the Jadzia, Kurzon and Dax hosts was - looked Kriosian), and only suffered an expected amount of broken bones, the same as Worf himself (and, from what Bashir muttered, more or less the norm for Klingons). Rather, Klingon men want their women to be extremely aggressive and physically violent in sex, and a human, even a muscular one, might be too "fragile" mentally as well as physically to keep up the attack that Worf would expect.
Vulcanoids are strong whenever the writers remember to make them - Spock triumphs in fights, Nero's crew were supermen all, and so forth. T'Pol sometimes failed to demonstrate physical strength when she ought to have, but perhaps she had a physical disability? And males in plak tow probably become not just crazy, but unable to utilize their strength well, which is why Kirk is not dead and Torres (who also thought she was a Vulcan male in plak tow) did not lose. Yet when Worf tries to wrestle open a stuck door and fails, Riker (a slightly bigger man) steps in a completes the job...
Timo Saloniemi
I'm sure that was a season seven episode.
My impression is that Klingons are slightly weaker than Humans, a pregnant Kira was able to drop a Klingon to the ground with a single kick to the tummy.
Klingons do seem to have an advantage in the area of endurance.
This might have been what Worf was talking about when he told Guinan that a human female would not make a good sexual partner for a him. Also, evidence from DS9 implies that Worf enjoys rough sex.
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Klingons do seem to have an advantage in the area of endurance.
This might have been what Worf was talking about when he told Guinan that a human female would not make a good sexual partner for a him. Also, evidence from DS9 implies that Worf enjoys rough sex.
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Plus Scotty, Chekov, and another crewman were holding their own against the Klingons at the the station K7 bar, right? And in the alternate timeline created by Arne Darvin, O'Brian and Bashir jumped into the fight also.
Returning to the OP.
Thing is, octopus don't have blue skin, it is shades of brown and occasionally red. Humans (most of us) don't have skin color to match our blood color. So could Andorians have iron red blood, and still have blue skin? Is it the Andorian version of melanin/pheomelanin that results in blue pigment?
I'm trying to remember if we saw an Andorian bleed during Enterprise.
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Episode 4.13 the female dies archer gets handed a bottle of her blood which is spilled on the ground when telluride and andorian try to get at each other. It's blue.
True, but octopuses tend to be special cases. They have chromatophores that allow them to change their skin. We humans have only melanin for pigment, which is brown, giving us all either a red look (in the case of those with albinism), or anything from nearly white to nearly black, but always on the brown spectrum.
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