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[selenak]

Star Trek: Discovery:

Spoilery only for broadcast episodes and theorizing (not knowing) about possible future developments: not to make this entirely about showing off my new self made Discovery icon, regarding a certain theory involving the Klingon character Voq, check out this visual comparison. As I said before, if the theory is correct it would at last provide some justification for the new Klingon look.


It is, alas, real life, not fantasy:

How to follow the Mueller probe (if your only knowledge of US justice comes from tv: I have to say, this is both funny and very useful for those of us across the Atlantic who really do on tv shows and movies for said knowledge. (Am especially gratified that Better Call Saul gets quoted. Mind you, Vince Gilligan and friends would never write a character as grotesque and unrealistic as the Orange Menace.)

In conclusion, I have to use a German joke at least once: Alles Müller oder was?

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[ex_inklessej388]

Is the “new” Klingon look just a recycle of the look from TOS? The Klingons before TNG looked a lot different, I just figured that with the timeline in Discovery that the Klingons look more like TOS because the species hasn’t evolved into the TNG look yet. I remember reading a cool fan theory post that after the Klingon homeworld lost their moon and major source of revenue that it also had an impact on how the species developed and this changed their look. In reality, the producers did not have the money to spend on fancy makeup and people’s to make them look much different in TOS and by TNG they had more money and put more thought into the Klingon look.

[selenak]

a cool fan theory post that after the Klingon homeworld lost their moon and major source of revenue that it also had an impact on how the species developed and this changed their look.

The problem with this is that the loss of the moon happens at the start of "Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country". At this point, TNG was already shown on tv for several seasons, and even before TNG, the post-TOS Klingon look had featured in some other TOS movies (there are briefly Klingons in ST - The (Slow) Motion Picture, and of course a lot of Klingons in ST - The Search for Spock). Meaning that look predates the loss of the moon.

Because of the obvious Doylist explanation (more money and better makeup in the 80s), I thought TPTB were wise to avoid a complicated Watsonian explanation and just let sleeping dogs lie (so far). (In the DS9 episode where they travel back in time and meet TOS era Klingons, Worf just says "we don't talk about it to strangers" which was a great way to avoid the topic ic and was a funny line to boot.)