OEO>That's not really true.  If they'd wanted to retcon the ridgies, they'd 
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OEO>have needed to alter a very few TOS Klingons - Michael
OEO>Pataki (Korax) to name one.
He'd be a sticky one to alter.
OEO> Any others could have been
OEO>replaced with bluescreen techniques in the very few scenes
OEO>where they used original Klingon footage.
        The parts where they added the DS9 crew were done with green
screens and very careful computer controlled camera movements to match
the camera angles in the original episode.  I heard that it was tricky
and expensive work.  Perhaps it was justified for the STARS of the show,
but for the extras?  I figure that's what would have driven the cost of
the episode into the sky.
        OTOH, they could have refilmed the whole episode and then
spliced in the footage of the TOS characters.
        Despite the YATI, I like they way the episode turned out.  It
was a fun watch.
OEO>  Most of the Klingons in the barroom brawl in Trials And
OEO>Tribble-ations were new footage (especially the one with the really
OEO>*BAD* wig).
        I thought that the bad wig was a sort of "in joke".
OEO>  Korax would have been the only real problem, since
OEO>his is a key scene and he's such a memorable character (in case
OEO>you're not up on who's who, Korax is the drunken First Officer who
OEO>compares Kirk to a Denebian Slime Devil and says the Enterprise
OEO>should be hauled away as garbage - one of the best scenes ever in
OEO>Trek).
OEO>CFN, O
        That was Michael Pataki, who also appeared in the TNG episode
"Too Short a Season."  They would have had to go ahead and get Michael
Pataki back and pretend Korax was thirty years older when he picked the
fight or recast the character entirely.
        Again I think that the episode as aired was the best compromise
between cost, effort and technology.  I liked it.
        There were bobbles, certainly.  I wish they could settle the
"Klingon problem"  but really, it's not that important compared to the
troubles going on with V'Ger right now.
Jay P. Hailey 
Chief Editor
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