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And verily, didst Your Name hastily babble thusly:
> 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. ;-)
No, causes flat foreheads.
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