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   From: no@spam.invalid   
      
   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...   
      
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