Those Klingon Ridges

[Photon]

...ya know if their heads are ridged, wonder if............. nah, not goin there.........

Anyway, props to DS9 for a least broaching the Klingon ridge thingy in Trials..... It wasn't explained but at least it was brought up, more than the movies or TNG did.

TNG should have done an episode about how the ridged appeared or disappeared and tied somethings together every Trek fan wondered about.

 

[Lt. Trull]

You missed the show Enterprise... didn't ya....

 

[Jono]

Before Trials I didn't actually care about the ridges. I just accepted the fact that the characters where changed for the movies and TNG due to the creators getting some money and expertises to put together more "alien"-looking Klingons.

DS9 had to say something about the issue in the episode because of Worf. If Worf wasn't there they probably would have let it slide by, like they did for the Trill.

 

[nx1701g]

You missed the show Enterprise... didn't ya....

And, noncanonly, it was said how they came back so forcefully in the novel Forged in Fire.

 

[Photon]

You missed the show Enterprise... didn't ya....

lets see ENT was 7 years after TNG ended

this could have been somehow explained from 1979 (ST:MP) to 1996 (ST:FC) or at least on the 7 year run of TNG.

Yes I saw ENT but was I was pointing out that it coulda/shoulda been done alot sooner.

 

[dave_R_treker]

You missed the show Enterprise... didn't ya....

lets see ENT was 7 years after TNG ended

this could have been somehow explained from 1979 (ST:MP) to 1996 (ST:FC) or at least on the 7 year run of TNG.

Yes I saw ENT but was I was pointing out that it coulda/shoulda been done alot sooner.

Better late then never I suppose.

 

[cultcross]

You missed the show Enterprise... didn't ya....

lets see ENT was 7 years after TNG ended

this could have been somehow explained from 1979 (ST:MP) to 1996 (ST:FC) or at least on the 7 year run of TNG.

Yes I saw ENT but was I was pointing out that it coulda/shoulda been done alot sooner.

Better late then never I suppose.

I'd rather have had 'never' myself. It was always going to be a silly explanation, and better left in the realms of fanon. I thought Trials handled it very well, making a joke but not explaining it, and personally I would have left it at that.

 

[Seven of Five]

I liked how Trials poked fun at the change in Klingon makeup - much more subtle than the convoluted ENT explanation. What I would have loved to have seen happen was for Worf to lose the ridges temporarily while they were back in time, only for no-one to comment on or even notice the change. 8)

 

[Brutal Strudel]

lets see ENT was 7 years after TNG ended

this could have been somehow explained from 1979 (ST:MP) to 1996 (ST:FC) or at least on the 7 year run of TNG.

Yes I saw ENT but was I was pointing out that it coulda/shoulda been done alot sooner.

Better late then never I suppose.

I'd rather have had 'never' myself. It was always going to be a silly explanation, and better left in the realms of fanon. I thought Trials handled it very well, making a joke but not explaining it, and personally I would have left it at that.

Same here--I actually thought they were breaking the fourth wall there, or at least pushing at it.

 

[Navaros]

I'm glad DS9 explained it, but it was a moot point since TNG/DS9 also made Romulan makeup fugly & ridged, and Vulcan makeup fugly. Therefore, those things just continued to stand out as much as the Klingon ridges, and IMO needed to likewise be addressed. Best thing to do IMO would have been to never have fuglified any of the makeup in the first place.

 

[Nebusj]

Same here--I actually thought they were breaking the fourth wall there, or at least pushing at it.

Well, yeah. If they didn't want to tease the audience with the (quite good) ``we do not discuss it'' line, the writers would just have left Worf back on Deep Space Nine and not had him sent back to the Original Series.

 

[cultcross]

Same here--I actually thought they were breaking the fourth wall there, or at least pushing at it.

Well, yeah. If they didn't want to tease the audience with the (quite good) ``we do not discuss it'' line, the writers would just have left Worf back on Deep Space Nine and not had him sent back to the Original Series.

I guess the thought was that if they were going to take an original series episode, filled with miniskirts and beehives, quite different from the show as it existed by DS9's time, they might as well go the whole hog - the episode in itself pushed the boundaries with regard to breaking the fourth wall, and it was a fun way to acknowledge the Klingon change in the right context without trying to come up with a serious explanation. ENT decided to try and 'properly' explain it and it just felt very forced and, dare i use the term, fanwanky.

 

[Lt. Trull]

ya know what would screw him all up, would be if they mention the klingon ridge problem in the new movie... thereby giving it credence of having been mentioned in kirk's/spocks time....

 

[Photon]

ya know what would screw him all up, would be if they mention the klingon ridge problem in the new movie... thereby giving it credence of having been mentioned in kirk's/spocks time....

Nice call Lt. You're buckin' for a promotion aren't cha?

 

[JoeD80]

Same here--I actually thought they were breaking the fourth wall there, or at least pushing at it.

the episode in itself pushed the boundaries with regard to breaking the fourth wall

What is all this talk about breaking the fourth wall? Breaking the 4th wall would be like having Dax turn to the camera and speaking to the audience, or having Sisko declare that the writers have done it to him again. This episode did a good job of keeping everything in context within the episode with the characters involved.