> -=> Quoting Bob Kohl to Paul Andinach <=-
 
>> BK> It was Mike
>> BK> Dorn that added the Japanese style influences to the Klingons.
 
>> He can't have added all of them,
 
> BK> Never said he did.
 
> Are you sure? You don't say "some of the", you don't say "most of
> the", you don't say "a few of the". You say "It was Mike Dorn that added
> the Japanese style influences", and that sounds like you mean all of
> them.
 
I was paraphrasing Mike Dorn's comments on this.
 
 
 
>> because it's on record that some
>> people back in the Sixties believed the Klingons were actually
> descended
>> from Earth Oriental colonists.
 
> BK> For the "official" definitition of what the franchise thought
> Klingons
> BK> thought should be... I'd suggest reading: "The making of Star Trek".
 
 
> How about the Trek books adapted from the actual episodes? Blish
> categorically states in "Errand of Mercy" that the Klingons are of Earth
> Oriental descent.
> I know it probably doesn't count as canon, but it does suggest that
> the influences appeared very early, which is all I was saying.
 
You have to understand that the pocketbooks are done without any real ties to 
the folks that actually bring out the TV shows and/or movies with the obvious 
exception of the books directly attributed to the staff, like the Okuda's, 
Herb Solow, etc etc.
 
 
In talking with the guys on the lot, they they're unhappy on occasion when 
the books get so far out from where the actual "Canon"  or production has 
gone..  I've read two of the books and will never pick another up. I also 
don't think much of them. 
 
                                    BK 
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