Tbf TOS era male Klingons didn't look too different from humans either
35 0 ReplyYeah, but they worked a little harder.
42 0 Reply"I want the male Klingons in black face"
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The dirty truth is that almost all sci-fi "aliens" look a hell of a lot like humans.
20 0 ReplyOr humans look a lot like sci fi aliens.
13 0 ReplyClint Howard is still the scariest looking alien ever depicted on TV.
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They really didn't give much direction at all on how Klingons should look back then. The actor and makeup artist basically came up with it on the spot.
7 0 ReplyPretty much all Star Trek aliens are just human from the mouth downwards.
5 0 ReplyThey insist that anything else would be uncanny valley
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Female Klingons are ladies from Dublin, noted. They even share the orange fake tan.
17 0 ReplyMimi being Klingon makes a lot of sense now.
16 0 ReplyTrue matriarch of Duras.
5 0 ReplyBrooooo I was thinking the exact same thing!!
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I always assumed it was a comparison between the West and the USSR. One could swap the populations and few would notice. It was a culture and leadership thing.
In Next Gen the USSR was gone, so they no longer needed that angle.
This is all assumption though.
11 0 ReplyA lot of people think that's what it was.
That said, TNG started in
19971987 and the USSR collapsed in 1991.14 0 ReplySo you're saying TNG caused the collapse of the Soviet Union?
16 0 ReplyYeah but by '87 the writing was definitely on the wall for the USSR
4 0 Reply1987, bit of a typo there my guy.
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The Klingons are modeled after Japanese feudal society.
4 0 ReplyTrust is super interesting!
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More eyelashes. More. Okay, I think you’re hearing, “Give me a lot of lashes.” What I mean is GIMMY ALL THE EYELASHES BABY!
9 0 ReplyLashes you say?
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Ol' gene knew the cost of rubber in the 60's
8 0 ReplyI don't think that means what you think it means.
2 0 Reply'Tis a pune
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This mother does have a flat forehead!
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