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   In article   
   <0e0a4578-cf4e-4fcb-bbe1-a7fbe6f2203c@i35g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,   
    David Johnston  wrote:   
      
   > On Mar 13, 10:01 pm, Professor Bubba    
   > wrote:   
   > > In article   
   > > <3c475b5f-ae36-4711-8aaa-34dc02120...@k15g2000prk.googlegroups.com>,   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > David Johnston  wrote:   
   > > > On Mar 13, 7:22 pm, Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   > > > > ANIM8R...@cox.net wrote:   
   > > > > > Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   > > > > >> ques...@infionline.net wrote:   
   > > > > >> >Why not add bumps with CGI? Because they already have an "in-show"   
   > > > > >> >explanation for those Klingons with the smooth foreheads (given in   
   > > > > >> >Enterprise).   
   > >   
   > > > > >> They did?   
   > >   
   > > > > >Yes, but remember, Enterprise is just a holodeck fantasy.   
   > >   
   > > > > >More to the point is that they showed Klingons of Kirk's era had   
   smooth   
   > > > > >foreheads and that turtle heads like Worf weren't even recognized as   
   > > > > >Klingons when they time travelled back in Trial and Tribbelations.   
   > >   
   > > > > >Also note that the explanation presented in Enterprise is simply   
   wrong,   
   > > > > >in that it contradicts what had previously been said in real Trek. For   
   > > > > >instance, there's no possible way Dr. Bashir wouldn't have known about   
   > > > > >it.   
   > >   
   > > > > What was the explaination that they gave and what did they previously   
   > > > > claim?   
   > >   
   > > > The explanation they gave was the smooth heads happened as a result of   
   > > > an attempt to give Klingons the superpowers of Earth's genetically   
   > > > engineered psychos from the Eugenics Wars.  The attempt turned into a   
   > > > plague that killed a lot of Klingons and left more disfigured.   
   > >   
   > > > Now, what he's claiming is that since Bashir didn't know about this,   
   > > > even though he has a personal interest in the history of human genetic   
   > > > engineering, this constitutes an inconsistency.  Well it does but it   
   > > > is the DS9 episode that is being inconsistent, since it's quite   
   > > > impossible that humans would be unaware that that their archrivals had   
   > > > lost and regained their bumps the way they were in the episode.  Their   
   > > > ignorance is simply a flaw in the DS9 episode, and not one that can be   
   > > > fixed by later rationalization.   
   > >   
   > > In John M. Ford's Star Trek novel The Final Reflection, the more human   
   > > appearance of the Klingons in TOS was said to be because Kirk had   
   > > encountered only Klingons of mixed-race ancestry from the more remote   
   > > parts of the Klingon Empire, e.g., those bits closest to Federation   
   > > space.  That to me was a much better explanation than the plague   
   > > nonsense in Enterprise, or that clusterfrak in DS9.   
   >   
   > It was a better explanation right up until Kang and Kor showed up in   
   > makeup.  Then it wasn't.  (Although even then, the fact that we only   
   > saw hybrids in TOS and only saw purebreds in the next gen era meant it   
   > didn't really work all that well.)   
      
   Yeah, Kang and Kor being both ways, and Dax knowing them both ways, is   
   pretty much a dealbreaker for any explanation, and certainly for Bashir   
   not knowing.   
      
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