What an odd reason.
What sort of Klingons are we expecting?
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What an odd reason.
What sort of Klingons are we expecting?
Mush-mouthed albinos with double ridges with piercings, Darth Maul bone spikes around their heads, boob windows on the males and females, charm bracelet style baldrics showing their favorite hobbies and activities and merit badges, quadruple penises, double anuses, kinky black leather thigh high boots ringed with spikes on the outside and inside, and blond Karen-hair styled like Rachel from Friends. They always mumble-talk about fighting for their Hodor and practice ritual Jazzercide, and their mortal enemies are the Blue Barrelians and Furbies.
Mush-mouthed albinos with double ridges with piercings, Darth Maul bone spikes around their heads, boob windows on the males and females, charm bracelet style baldrics showing their favorite hobbies and activities and merit badges, quadruple penises, double anuses, kinky black leather thigh high boots ringed with spikes on the outside and inside, and blond Karen-hair styled like Rachel from Friends. They always mumble-talk about fighting for their Hodor and practice ritual Jazzercide, and their mortal enemies are the Blue Barrelians and Furbies.
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People watch Star Trek because Star Trek. Not watching it because it plays it too safe isn't that odd. Some people, like myself, prefer a measure of realism over safe.
No Klingons at all?
If not for DS9 episode "Blood Oath", you could say it's like Earth where not every culture looks the same. But now....I just roll with it. Though I do wish they would pick a look and stick with it.All of them
And break tradition? Heaven forefend!
The change was made early in the creative process. If the blood is red, it kills the "this is not Klingon blood!" reveal at the end.
Could have done the same thing with a tricorder scan and kept the red blood instead of whatever violet-pink gak that was.
And now DSC has canonized both colors as being correct for Klingon blood. Klingons stabbed by L'Rell and Ash Tyler during her struggle to remain in power bled both red and pink blood.
Klingons like the taste of prune juice and bleed Pepto-Bismol. I'm sensing a theme.
Yep. Complete with some bio-scan nonsense on a sickbay screen and Majel Barrett saying 'Analysis Complete. Klingon Blood Type Match - Negative'.
In a way it makes less sense that (in universe) those involved (a cabal formed of Federation members, Klingons and Romulans no less) would be dumb enough not to make their fake the right colour.
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I always retconned it as the pink-purple Nickelodeon Gak blood was the result of some kind of seasonal or environmental change in Klingon blood that alters the color from its usual red due to having more of some substance that makes them more able to survive adverse environmental conditions or other threats.
Maybe the Klingons from the mountainous provinces or planets (like Boreth or the First City seen in ENT) or ones suffering severe Ozone depletion or pollution (like Q'o'nos was at that time before and especially after Praxis exploded) adapt the pink-purple-ish blood because more oxygen is being supplied to their redundant organs to survive.
The Colonel West bleeding out at the end wasn't even in the theatrical release of the film, only in the home video releases I believe.
That sort of ties in with an old family theory we had back in the day that it was related to oxygen or gravity levels affecting the color of Klingon blood. Bleeding in a zero-G environment wouldn't allow the platelets to coagulate and create a more red appearance or something along those lines.
Or have Bones tricorder scan Colonel West and go "Jim, it's another goddamn shapeshifter! They're everywhere!"
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