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   In article , Bo   
   Raxo  wrote:   
      
   > "Eric Newman"  wrote in message   
   > news:il33v01psnp1guss8kqrtnp3rnutdehaq5@4ax.com...   
   > >   
   > > 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.)   
   >   
   > Seems pretty clear it was some kind of timeline change.  Somebody went back   
   > in the past to change something, and it resulted in Klingons getting ridged   
   > heads. That's why they were still smooth in TOS, but by DS9's era they were   
   > bumpy, and everyone remembered them as always being bumpy.   
   >   
   > The operatives who did this were caught on their return to the changed   
   > timeline, and (probably after being tortured) told the whole story.  The   
   > Klingons don't like to talk about it because they failed to foil the plot.   
      
   It's not a timeline change.   
      
   SPOILER ("Affliction" and "Divergence")   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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   It's basically a genetic engineering project that got out of control   
   and turned into a plague.  In "Affliction" we see a Klingon general and   
   a scientist overseeing experiments on a prisoner - they inject him with   
   a formula which makes him stronger but which causes his forehead to   
   shrink.   
      
   Later on, Enterprise is raided by a whole troop of TOS-style   
   (ridgeless) Klingons who are demanding to know what is happening to   
   their race.   
      
   --   
   "No urban night is like the night [in NYC]...here is our poetry, for we have   
   pulled down the stars to our will."   
   - Ezra Pound, poet and critic, 9/18/1912, reflecting on New York City   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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