What sort of Klingons are we expecting?
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If you want an explanation for your headcanon, the novels tried to explain it by saying the Ridged Klingons treated the flat klingons as lower class citizens, and used them as cannon fodder on the frontier space, that's why Kirk always encountered them.
Regarding looks in SNW, someone did post something last page that might be from Season 2.
Worf in Picard Season 3 has been said to not look like a Discovery Klingon, but that's also different production team.
Regarding looks in SNW, someone did post something last page that might be from Season 2.
Worf in Picard Season 3 has been said to not look like a Discovery Klingon, but that's also different production team.
TNG style Klingon makeup. Pictures have already leaked from either a late season one or early season 2 pic.
I hope we'll see some smoothheaded Klingons somewhere. Just a little nod to them. Maybe they are looked down on by the more purist T'Kuvma types.
Honest question: would it really matter?
The new series aren't exactly beholden to what has come before. We can argue whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it is what it is.
It is to some degree. They are trumpeting that presumably Pike and Sam Kirk will be led off to their TOS fates.
To some degree, sure.
When it suits the story they want to tell AND OH MY GODS do they want to tell the story of Pike seeing his fate coming.
When it suits the story they want to tell AND OH MY GODS do they want to tell the story of Pike seeing his fate coming.
An idea for an explanation that doesn't retread too much old ground: It is revealed that smooth-heads never went away, rather they overcorrected towards an almost prehistoric esthetic with subdermal implants and selective baldness. Then the practice is abandoned altogether to make way for a gradual genetic fix to work its magic.
Or both, if there's a cliffhanger.
And Worf in Picard season 3 is Worf.
Worf: Chancellor L'Rell and her era's people are Klingons, and it is a long story.
Troi: What happened? Some kind of viral mutation?
Crusher: Genetic engineering?
Worf: It is not something that we discuss with outsiders.
Annoyingly, the comic miniseries Star Trek: Discovery - Aftermath depicts Kor and his father as Hem'Quch, following in the footsteps of the Kelvin tie-in comics Nero and "The Khitomer Conflict". I really hope that gets ignored to gel better with TOS because I view Kang's flashback cameo in Voyager as a logical progression from ENT to TNG. But I do not expect it to, given how Kol and Kol-Sha were already depicted onscreen in Discovery.
You're misremembering as the IDW Discovery comics clearly showed Kor as smooth head with his dad a normal ridged Klingon. Kor's mom didn't show up, presumably she's smooth though.
Only the Nero comics showed Kor as ridged, and those almost definitely aren't canon anymore considering the sister series Countdown was thrown into a black hole and hit with a gazillion quantum torpedoes by the Picard show.
Not quite. Kor has some subtle ridges on his forehead and neck, plus pointy ears.
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