XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: no@spam.invalid   
      
   In article <210120051213186527%sky.diver@moonbase.alpha>, Straker   
    wrote:   
      
   > In article <210120051018192047%no@spam.invalid>, Keeper of the Purple   
   > Twilight  wrote:   
   >   
   > > Kirk only knew the smooth-forehead variety of Klingons.  He didn't have   
   > > occasion to run into them a lot, so he couldn't be expected to know   
   > > what they *really* looked like.   
   > >   
   > > As for Bashir et al - it's the same thing.  The only Klingons any DS9   
   > > crewmember ever met, were the real, ridged variety.  Klingons don't   
   > > discuss the 'change' with outsiders, so how are DS9's people supposed   
   > > to know about it?  Apparently by DS9's time, there are no 'smoothies'   
   > > left, so nobody will ever meet them again...   
   >   
   > There are things called "historical records." Especially in something   
   > like Starfleet, where you're supposed to be familiar with past, present   
   > and potential threats. If Kirk never once in his academy training saw a   
   > picture of an Archer-era Klingon, then the Federation education system   
   > is even more screwed up than ours. It's totally irrelevant if the   
   > Klingons want to discuss the change or not. A large number of   
   > Federation and Starfleet personnel have seen Klingons and *will*   
   > discuss them. If our military sent soldiers out into the field with   
   > something like, "What do Russians look like? Well, we can't describe   
   > them and we can't show them to you, but you'll know them when you see   
   > them," there'd be a military coup in no time. Unless "military   
   > intelligence" is an even bigger contradiction in the 22nd through 24th   
   > centuries.   
      
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   In the ENT Klingon arc, which will explain once and for all the   
   difference, we will find that Section 31 is involved (one of Reed's   
   friends, Harris, is a Section 31 operative).  Maybe they ordered that   
   all records of the change be covered up/suppressed or even outright   
   destroyed.   
      
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   "No urban night is like the night [in NYC]...here is our poetry, for we have   
   pulled down the stars to our will."   
   - Ezra Pound, poet and critic, 9/18/1912, reflecting on New York City   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)