Star Trek: Discovery - Will Klingons have forehead ridges?

[OpenMaw]

I thought the augment arc was three episodes but whatever, even one would have been too much in this case. I actually groaned when I watched it for the first time.

There's the augment arc(The the orions and then Cold Station and their attempt to murder a Klingon colony...) , and then the follow-up arc with the Klingons (Featuring Phlox getting kidnapped, and Enterprise almost blowing up, and yadda yadda...) .

So it was really five episodes, three helping to build up the background for the events that followed in the other two.

 

[Takeru]

Oh, those were seperate? Somehow they merged in my memory, I was convinced the augment arc and the klingon ridge arc were the same.

Now I realize a klingon ridge arc exists.

 

[OpenMaw]

If I remember right, they're separated by one stand alone episode, but they basically tell one continuous set of events.


IRTT, I hope they don't event bring this up. Don't have the space bikers per se, but definitely have ridges. If they are to be bad guys I'd love to get back to more "Kor" "Kang" and "Kruge" type Klingons. That colder more calculating Klingon threat that I thought actually had a chance of being dangerous and not just laughable. Motivated by something deeper than "honor."

 

[Anna Yolei]

The Argument arc aired as episodes 4 thru 6 of season four. The Klingon Arc was towards the tail end of the season, right before Bound.

 

[uniderth]

but those affected by the augment virus won't.

Yes they will. Cranial reconstructive surgery remember.

 

[ELURIA]

Can't believe all the hate for ENT and the love for the JJ Klingons

 

[Nerys Myk]

Can't believe all the hate for ENT and the love for the JJ Klingons

It's Star Trek fandom. We contain multitudes.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

One of the books gave a good explanation.

It was due to the romulan wars a era before and the romulans ability to hack computer and hijack ships.
Therefore they had to adopt a different design path for computers with more analog than digital components.

And then Star Trek (2009) thanfully came along and nuked it, with Beyond finishing it off.

 

[Crazyewok]

And then Star Trek (2009) thanfully came along and nuked it, with Beyond finishing it off.

Not really because if you paid attention to the movies they are set in different time lines.

So there no right or "wrong".

Just enjoy what you see fit.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

Not really because if you paid attention to the movies they are set in different time lines.

So there no right or "wrong".

Just enjoy what you see fit.

They weren't in different timelines until the day James Kirk was born.

Pegg has recently claimed that the quantum effects of time travel could've changed the past as well as the future, which would make them effectively different timelines, but that explanation was never given in the actual movies.

 

[Crazyewok]

They weren't in different timelines until the day James Kirk was born.

Pegg has recently claimed that the quantum effects of time travel could've changed the past as well as the future, which would make them effectively different timelines, but that explanation was never given in the actual movies.

Does it really matter? Its fiction just enjoy what you thinks the correct theory.

I enjoy the new trek and I enjoy the old too.

 

[Seven of Five]

They will have ridges, but we will never actually see them on screen. We'll just hear audio dialogue.

 

[iMike]

So we know that Klingons originally looked the way they do in TNG, DS9, and VOY. We know from the last season of ENT that human augment genes were responsible for the way Klingons appeared in TOS (more human ... though I'm sure technically at the time that was for budgetary purposes). My question though is this: wasn't it stated somewhere that the Klingons (much like the Romulans at various points) actually retreated within their borders for several decades? If DISC does indeed take place between ENT and TOS (and there's obviously a good chance it may) then we may not see them ... or at the very least maybe only once or twice, certainly nothing like TNG and DS9.

 

[eyeresist]

Enterprise giving an in story explanation was unnecessary, it was pandering to fanboys and no show should ever do that.

Surely producing a new Star Trek series is in itself "pandering to fanboys"?

Based on the new ship's design, I'm pretty sure Klingons will be involved in some way, but I'm hoping they'll be more mysterious, as in the JJ movies. A bit like Predator.

The ridge-vs-non-ridge question could open the way to genuine racial differences in an alien race, something rarely explored in screen.
(And yeah, I know the use of 'race' is questionable, let's not get into that. Just assume I spoke with best intentions.)

I HATED that STUPID episode of Enterprise which offered the "solution" to the big question of ridges. The issue had already been solved.

Kang, Koloth & Kor were members of a minority race of Klingons who are born ridgeless and gain their ridges much later in life.

That's it. That's all. That perfectly explains every single issue about the, uhm, issue.

Really not sure if this is serious or brilliant parody....

So we know that Klingons originally looked the way they do in TNG, DS9, and VOY. We know from the last season of ENT that human augment genes were responsible for the way Klingons appeared in TOS ...
wasn't it stated somewhere that the Klingons actually retreated within their borders for several decades?

Wow, I just realised. Not wanting to turn this into the ENT thread, but if Klingons blamed Earth for a deforming plague, that may well be the "disastrous first contact" referred to in TNG.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

Does it really matter? Its fiction just enjoy what you thinks the correct theory.

I enjoy the new trek and I enjoy the old too.

The question of alternate timelines doesn't really matter. But it is rather annoying to claim that anyone who 'paid attention to the movies' would know x, when x actually wasn't in the movies at all.