XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise
From: bunnyborg@excite.com
"Eric Newman" wrote in message
news:lk33v05u2eaflc8d02af0l30799ah1nuk3@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:00:21 GMT, "Numan"
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Straker" wrote in message
>>news:200120051914101593%sky.diver@moonbase.alpha...
>>> In article <1gSHd.210234$8G4.7989@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>, Nobody
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > > a two-episode arc explaining why Klingons went from smooth foreheads
>>to
>>> > > bumpy ones.
>>> >
>>> > Shouldn't that be, "Go from bumpy headed in Enterprise, smooth headed
>>> > in
>>> > TOS, then bumpy headed again in TMP"?
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> Maybe they'd better work a case of mass magnesia into the plot.
Magnesia? Well, they will still remember, but at least theyll have no GI
trouble.
Tamara
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