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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   Nope, it was all the humanoids (and a way to explain why all the aliens looked   
   humanoid).   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)   
      
   >You'd think the Klingonese DNA would be so screwed up that their portion   
   >wouldn't work.   
      
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