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   In article ,   
   Anim8rFSK  wrote:   
   > In article   
   > <0e0a4578-cf4e-4fcb-bbe1-a7fbe6f2203c@i35g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,   
   >  David Johnston  wrote:   
   > > On Mar 13, 10:01 pm, Professor Bubba    
   > > wrote:   
   > > >   
   > > > 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.   
      
   The entire species simply caught "Klingon Flu", which causes forehead   
   ridges.  ;-)   
      
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