As I keep saying, the best explanation for different-looking Klingons is that it's a star-spanning empire made up of hundreds of planets, and we encounter many different "Klingons" who are from many different planets. Simple. But NOOOoooo!
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Should be. Absolutely. And all they would have to do to convince me of this would be to have a "multi-ethnic" Klingon crew.As I keep saying, the best explanation for different-looking Klingons is that it's a star-spanning empire made up of hundreds of planets, and we encounter many different "Klingons" who are from many different planets. Simple. But NOOOoooo!
Sadly that ship sailed when TOS Klingons showed up with ridges on DS9.As I keep saying, the best explanation for different-looking Klingons is that it's a star-spanning empire made up of hundreds of planets, and we encounter many different "Klingons" who are from many different planets. Simple. But NOOOoooo!
Augment Klingons, TNG Style and DSC Klingons are all part of the same Empire, or at least were in the first sixty or seventy years of the 23rd century. Works for me.
Just for kicks, I’d add additional not-yet-seen types, and others like the bald guys in green tunics from the Gold Key comics.
Except, we've seen Kor as both TNG style and augment style, and we've seen members of the House of Kor (Kol and Kol-Sha)on Discovery in Discovery style.
They got the Augment Virus reversed or had cosmetic surgery. There.
There's a century between the TOS Klingons appearing on DS9, and we know the Augment Klingons are no longer seen after TOS so Kor's house got "fixed." Easy answer.
Just doesn't seem very "Klingon" to submit to aesthetics.
Eh. Pride overrides "honor" when peer pressure comes into play.
The cosmetic surgery thing is my head canon. The use of cosmetic surgery to replace head ridges lost to the virus was set up all the way back in Enterprise. The Discovery era Klingons are just taking it to an extreme, adapting more primitive looks to strike fear in their enemies or some such.They got the Augment Virus reversed or had cosmetic surgery. There.
Literally!
That works, or while trying to reverse the effects of the virus their scientists went too far in the other direction, resurrecting more archaic Klingon traits from their prehistory.
I feel like this could also be the plot for a sequel to "Genesis".
Coupled with an afterschool movie special event: HONORABLE TIMES AT FOREHEAD RIDGEMONT HIGH.
As I keep saying, the best explanation for different-looking Klingons is that it's a star-spanning empire made up of hundreds of planets, and we encounter many different "Klingons" who are from many different planets. Simple. But NOOOoooo!
To do that RIck Berman would have to first acknowledge the smooth headed Klingons on TOS and I think he hated TOS and their is no way he would show that on TNG. I bet you Behr had to fight just to get in the joke 'We don't talk about it to outsiders" on DS9 in the Tribble 25th Anniversary episode.
He wouldn't have had to fight that hard since they were literally showing the Yellow Peril Klingons on screen.
Berman could have made sure that we didn't see them in that episode. Would probably have had to change the whole story being instigated by Darvin going back to get revenge. They might have even just not did the story and instead did that other one were they went back to the "Piece of the Action" planet from TOS.
Actually, Klingons are going extinct. This explains all their different forms. At the time of Praxis, their population drop, was more than significant...massive forced inbreeding occurred, afterwards. The Federation tried to help, but discovered that the Argment virus really did them in...such that by 2400 Anno Domini, inside of fifty years after, they would be extinct.
I don't think Berman gave TOS much thought, so "hate" probably isn't accurate. Most likely he was just following Gene's edict of keeping TOS at a distance, Though given the number of TOS references in the Berman era, it was ignored when needed.
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