XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: bothecat3@hotmail.com   
      
   Eric Newman wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:18:19 -0600, Keeper of the Purple Twilight   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >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...   
   >   
   > I'm sure Kirk and Bashir studied history, or at least saw pictures   
   > (holo-images, whatever) of bumpy-headed Archer-era Klingons. Wouldn't   
   > Starfleet records show an image of Klaang? (Wait, that name rings a   
   > bell.)   
      
   Bashir said he didn't know much about the 23rd century. He was probably asleep   
   or checking out some hot chick during history class.   
      
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