XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise
From: bogusname@nj.rr.com
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:13:19 GMT, 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.
Maybe the Klingons sent an operative to Starfleet who Photoshopped all
the pictures. Maybe Arne Darvin. Yeah, he would have been in his
Element.
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