Star Trek

[Geo]

About this latest episode you linked for us, BUncle. I wonder why we saw so many non-ridged Klingons in the episode. Are those actors prefering to look old-style Klingon or simply members of another species within the Klingon Empire?

[Buster's Uncle]

They were using the Enterprise continuity, where a virus -an attempt to augment, like Khan- altered many of them.

I wondered why any hairy turtles were in it...

[Geo]

I assume the augmented Klingons were the ridged version?


Hairy turtles?

[Buster's Uncle]

No, it's the more human-looking ones.  The real Klingons.

The others have all the hair, and heads like turtle shells...

[Valka]

Some of those Klingon headpieces look like a combination of turtle shells and octopus suckers.

[Geo]

The boy-emperor's headpiece definitely didn't fit around the nose.
(so this means the Klingon's actually accept a changed one as their ruler)

As for what are real Klingons, I'm afraid TNG was my real introduction to Trekkieverse.

[Buster's Uncle]

I bet you have no idea how many things are wrong with that post.

[Geo]

I claim genuine sixties ignorance.

[Buster's Uncle]

Interesting.  An attempt to list every non-regular who appeared more than once:
https://sites.google.com/site/cytherians/Home/guest-stars-extras

[Unorthodox]

They were using the Enterprise continuity, where a virus -an attempt to augment, like Khan- altered many of them.

I wondered why any hairy turtles were in it...

Wait, so what? 

Didn't watch much of Enterprise.  I remember the DS9 crossover where everyone made fun of Warf trying to get him to spill the beans and he wouldn't say anything as to why the older klingons were different.  "We don't talk about it" IIRC.  Bashir listed several magical possibilities, but it was mostly just hand waved. 

(I seem to recall Enterprise had the turtle heads for klingons?  At least early on???)

[Buster's Uncle]

It did.

The point I'm making is that including stuff like that defeats the purpose of trying to make real Star Trek.

[Unorthodox]

I thought I remembered being a bit confused why enterprise didn't do the smoother heads. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I remember being very disappointed.

[Buster's Uncle]

[Buster's Uncle]