A serious quastion about Star Trek.?

Question

how did the Klingons go from looking simillar to Volcans and Humans in the originall series to what they are in Star Treks Next Gen-to voyager. now i dont mean like make up questions i mean in the universe of Star Trek how did it happen. how did they go from flat headed to the big pronoused craniaul ridges.

Answer 1

too much blood wine?

though wiki seems to disagree with this...

In February 2005 a two-part storyline on Star Trek: Enterprise, "Affliction" and "Divergence", explained canonically why the Klingons changed their appearance.

In an earlier series of episodes, the Augments, humans grown from genetically engineered embryos from the Eugenics Wars of the late 20th century, were defeated by Captain Jonathan Archer and the Enterprise NX-01 in Klingon space. The Klingon High Council feared that Starfleet was developing armies of Augments and that they would pose a serious threat to the Empire's existence. Even when they were told by the Vulcan High Command that the Augments were created without Starfleet's knowledge or consent, they remained suspicious and so decided to fight fire with fire. The Klingons gained access to the genetic material of the human Augments, and wanted to adapt this genetic engineering to augment their own species. The experiment did not work correctly; at first, subjects did gain increased strength and intelligence, but their nervous systems could not handle the strain and they died. One of the test subjects had a virulent flu, which — combined with the genetic changes wrought by the experiment — became a deadly, airborne plague that spread rampantly across the Empire, from world to world, causing the physical changes to change them into the human-looking Klingons of Kirk's day.

Dr. Phlox of the Enterprise NX-01 formulated a cure for the virus, however not before millions of Klingons were physically altered. And owing to the genetic nature of the virus, these alterations were passed to succeeding generations of offspring.

The Klingons were apparently so embarrassed by the fallout from this disaster, that they absolutely refused under any circumstances to discuss the incident with outsiders in later years. There is also evidence (illustrated by the ignorance of members of the Deep Space Nine crew who encounter humanlike Klingons during time travel into the past in Trials and Tribble-ations) that knowledge of the change might become lost to mankind over time. The Enterprise storyline also indicates that an early form of the Starfleet intelligence service Section 31 was somehow involved in the transformation of the Klingons.

Answer 2

Yeah, I did notice that too. If you remember Star Trek: The Motion Picture from 1979, the first movie, this is where Klingons first had their new look. I guess that when they planned the new movie, someone decided that the Klingons needed to look more "alien" so they got the bald heads, oversized, scaly foreheads, and larger bodies. It was one of those changes that we were supposed to just accept. I think that if they could do the original series all over again, they would make the Klingons look a little less human as well. It does make sense. If you see old episodes, hairy eyebrows, facial hair, and darker skin were all that separated Klingons from humans. I think it was a good move to change them.

Also, check out the Romulans in the later Star Trek series. Romulans and Vulcans are related, and branched off somehow. However, the Romulans look, though basically the same, was slightly altered for the the Next Generation, etc.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

This was explained in an episode of the new Star Trek franchise, "ENTERPRISE" starring Scott Bakula.

If you remember, Kahn, from the early 1960s Star Trek series, he and his genetically enhanced human friends were referred to as Augments in the series ENTERPRISE.

Klingons were supposedly as you know them from Star Trek Next Generation -but before Kirk's time (as per the ENTERPRISE series) the Klingons become more human looking because of a failed experiment from human Augments.

Thats the short version - and hope you can follow what I'm saying. ENTERPRISE was intended to predate Captain Kirk's era. A prequel if you will.

Answer 5

The original series was done on the cheap so make-up wasn't that extensive. Now with the Star Trek brand pretty well established, Klingons and props got a lot better.

Answer 6

It was explained on Star Trek: Enterprise. The Klingon's started messing with our genetic enhancement technology. They tried to use it to make super Klingon's and they infected all of their people but it had some draw backs that would kill them all. They found a way to keep them from all dieing but as a result they developed human traits that they said would take a number of generations to grow out of their race. The human trait of course being a flat head.

I don't know the episode name but it is the one in which Brent Spiner appeared.

Answer 7

They never addressed that in next gen and on - it was kind of glossed over. I believe in the original the klingons were a kin race to the vulcans that went awry.

Answer 8

Worf mentions it in the tribble episode of DS9 - he simply leaves it at "We don't talk about that". I don't know that there is any further explanation. You might want to try a Trekker board for additional info if you can't find it here. : )

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Answer 9

stephanie d.-- i'd rather be a star trek watching loser than not know how to use basic punctuation and sentence structure.

victor ious -- you're brilliant. i forgot all about that explanation in enterprise. thanks for the refresher

Answer 10

Make up has came along way in the last 30 years......