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echo: startrek
to: PAUL ANDINACH
from: STEVE LATULIPPE
date: 1997-08-13 15:07:00
subject: Re: Old Klingons

 PA> Sorry if this has already been answered, but this is what I know:
 PA> Sorry if this has already been answered, but this is what I know:
 PA> All the Klingons in TOS looked like that (there's actually a bit in 
ames
 PA> Blish' adaptations, where, lacking information to the 
 PA> contrary, he stated that
 PA> they were descended from Earth colonists), and the 
 PA> Klingons and the FoP were at
 PA> war with each other. (Sorry, TWT is after the Organian 
 PA> Treaty, so they weren't
 PA> actually at war, but they were far from being friends.) 
 PA> The current Klingon
 PA> makeup developed over the course of the movies. In TUC 
 PA> (movie) the Klingons and
 PA> the FoP started toward peace, but this was actually a 
 PA> retcon as the movie came
 PA> several years after STTNG began. (Worf was originally 
 PA> supposed to just hang
 PA> around in the background to show that the two had 
 PA> achieved accord, but he took
 PA> on a life of his own, and most of the revelations about 
 PA> Klingon honour, etc,
 PA> developed from there.)
 PA> The TOC Enterprise had a mainly human crew because the 
 PA> makers assumed that,
 PA> being an Earth ship, it would have an Earth crew. The 
 PA> Enterprise gained alien
 PA> crew in the animated series, when makeup ceased to be a factor.
Thank you for the infos.I also want to thank all the others who helped me on 
this subject. 
--- Maximus/2 3.01
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