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   From: Obveeus@aol.com   
      
   On 6/28/2017 3:13 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >   Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >   
   >> droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com wrote:   
   >>> Obveeus  wrote:   
   >>>> On 6/26/2017 3:30 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   >>>>> Obveeus  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>>> If you are going to rag on the show as being incompetent for changing   
   >>>>>> the look of 'known things', how do you resolve the changes within the   
   >>>>>> original cast era (such as the Klingon's face/head)?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> They explained that.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yep...with hand-wavium silliness that negated the simple reality that   
   >>>> the Trek film modified the look of the Klingons because the original   
   >>>> look was too simplistic and lame for a film.   
   >>>   
   >>> And yet the Vulcans got a pass.  Aren't all of us humanoids supposed to   
   >>> be closely related in Trek anyway?  Seems kind of racist that there   
   >>> hasn't been a lot more interbreeding . . .   
   >>   
   >> Yeah, there was an ep of TNG in which it was established that most of the   
   >> humanoids in this galaxy have something encoded in their DNA that produces a   
   >> holographic message when reassembled.   
   >>   
   >> I _HATE_ "magic DNA" eps!   
   >   
   > Yeah, wasn't it humans, Vulcans, Klingons, and Romulans?   
      
   I think it was just Vulcans, Romulans, and Klingons...with Humans   
   evolving independently rather than being seeded.   
      
   > You'd think the Klingonese DNA would be so screwed up that their portion   
   > wouldn't work.   
      
   Well, it is now...ever since the bumpy head event.   
      
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