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   Keeper of the Purple Twilight  typed as if devouring a   
   plate of spoo:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   He also met plenty of ridge-headed ones (Kruge, Maltz, Klaa, Korrd, Gorkon,   
   Azetbur, Kerla, Chang...)   
      
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