XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise
From: bogusname@nj.rr.com
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:18:19 -0600, Keeper of the Purple Twilight
wrote:
>In article , Numan
> wrote:
>
>> > Worse than that, isn't it simply amazing how nobody in the Federation
>> > seemed to bat an eye at the changes? Kirk didn't see Kor and say, "What
>> > the? You're not a Klingon. Klingons have scrotum heads." Similarly,
>> > Kirk didn't look at the TMP Klingons and wonder why they went back.
>> > Meanwhile, Bashir and company over at DS9 seemed genuinely surprised
>> > and totally ignorant about smooth-headed Klingons, like they've never
>> > had a history lesson. I don't know about you, but if say, all Soviet or
>> > Russian soldiers suddenly became black men for a few decades then just
>> > as suddenly reverted to Caucasians, Americans would know about it and
>> > want to know why it happened. It sure as heck wouldn't be forgotten.
>>
>> This is true. I think that would be remembered for a LONG time.
>
>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...
I'm sure Kirk and Bashir studied history, or at least saw pictures
(holo-images, whatever) of bumpy-headed Archer-era Klingons. Wouldn't
Starfleet records show an image of Klaang? (Wait, that name rings a
bell.)
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