XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: bogusname@nj.rr.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.   
      
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