This message was from JAY  P. HAILEY to OWEN E. OULTON,
originally in conference Private
and was forwarded to you by JAY  P. HAILEY.
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OEO>TR>     That won't fly:  Kang, Kor, Koloth were
OEO>TR> introduced in TOS as "mongo
OEO>TR>look" Klingon, yet in DSN  they all three were in
OEO>TR>one episode as "curren
OEO>TR>Klingons!  EXPLAIN THAT!!!!!
OEO> BN> Simple:  RETCON. };)
OEO>Nope.  They've admitted in the show that the Klingons
OEO>have changed, that th
OEO>didn't have ridges 100 years ago (but they did 1000 years
OEO>ago).  They haven't said *why* or *how* they changed, but
OEO>they have abandoned Gene's retcon stance that"Klingons
OEO>always looked that way."
OEO>CFN, O
        They could hardly have replaced all the "Mongolian" Klingons in
*The Trouble with Tribbles* with lumpy headed Klingons w/o driving the
cost into the sky.
        So they sort of had to work around it.  It was a cute episode
anyway, regardless of what a hash it made out of Klingon Kontinuity...
Jay P. Hailey 
Chief Editor
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