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The New Klingons

Do you like the design of these new Klingons? What was your gut reaction?

  • I liked them

    Votes: 127 46.4%
  • I did not like them

    Votes: 147 53.6%

  • Total voters
    274
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Perhaps someone can do a better job, but it would be interesting to see how they look with some hair
 
I hope they change more than just their look. I always found TNG era Klingons idiotic. They couldn't cross a street without some elaborate ritual otherwise their family would be dishonored.
I hope they are as psychically menacing and scary as Kelvin timeline Klingons.
 
My take is that they are priests and monks like Kevin Wolff said, or this is ceremonial garb.
Like T'Kuvma's makeup, though it might make things more clean cut than some people here seem to want(I think it;s up to the actor to use obstacles to his advantage and character definition).
The other Klingons(and possibly slave races) not so much. But its diverse.
 
Yes. I haaaaaaate those stupid HONNNOOOUUUUURRRRRRR Klingons. In ENT, they explain that it's the Warrior Caste taking over, which I actually liked in terms of in-universe wanky explanations.

My head canon has always been that we encountered almost entirely a kind of military nobility, a chivalry and honour obsessed Knight class similar to that which existed in England in the time of Edward III.

There's no way Klingon society could function if they were all like that.
 
They're obviously engaged in some ceremony. It's possible that the calling of these Klingons' hearts is religious.



I'll show myself out....
 
People create Kahless in their own image...
If you're referring to the Kahless from TOS's "The Savage Curtain", then that would be a correct statement. If you're referring to Kahless from TNG's "Rightful Heir", then he would have been created in the image of his own DNA from that little dagger they had at the monastery, indicating how Klingons of that time looked. These new Klingons are hopefully from before that, or a different branch species entirely. Still liking/banking on "proto-Klingons", kind of like the Mintakans/proto-Vulcans from "Who Watches the Watchers?"
 
What if they are actually the Klingon gods? They don't look totally unlike Fek'lhr in TNG Devil's Due (minus the hair). Plus Bryan Fuller wrote Voyager's Barge of the Dead. Could be a continuation of his interest in Klingon mythology seeded into the concept for Discovery. Of course in reality Klingon 'gods' might mean an original, different race of Klingons.
I like this, actually - kind of an "Ancient Aliens" POV for Klingons? Call Giorgio Tsoukalos - he may do a cameo!

Wasn't there a myth that Worf mentioned how the Klingons killed their gods? Could "killed" imply "banished" on this sarcophagus ship? Curiouser and curiouser...
 
I assume this is going to be pretty anticlimactic. Ancient people are known for having ancient technology. So I suppose waking "ancient Klingons" can't be very dangerous, right?

(I'm tired of the "ancient danger" trope in media)
 
I assume this is going to be pretty anticlimactic. Ancient people are known for having ancient technology. So I suppose waking "ancient Klingons" can't be very dangerous, right?

(I'm tired of the "ancient danger" trope in media)
Which is why the Mummy is being rebooted?

Maybe they are undead Klingons? Or that Stargate/Star Trek crossover I've been waiting for.
 
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