That's an interesting article. I'm not sure if I agree with it. But it's interesting nonetheless.
I actually didn't pick up that they were supposed to be photon torpedoes. I was confused about why they were going all the way to Kronos, because the way they were talking about the missiles led me to believe they could be piloted from far away like a drone. Very confusing.
Yeah, the Klingons were weird. And I was disappointed that they still had facial ridges. AND YOU SHOULD TOTALLY MAKE A KLINGON VID!! Maybe it's because I'm a TNG etc girl but I always preferred the Kingons to the Vulcans.
I just want them to adequately explain what kind of an alternate universe we're in! Is it a straight up fork-in-the-road? In which case how was someone else finding the Botany Bay nearly 10 years earlier influenced by the destruction of the Kelvin? So much more would make sense if Spock Prime travelled universes as well as time.
I just want Karl Urban in my eyeballs all the time. And especially when he's Bones. :)
Yeah. I remember they tackled that in Enterprise. And it was an awesome episode arc! (I love Enterprise. Even though so many Trekkies hated it.) We see Klingons in early Enterprise eps with the full facial ridges, and then losing it was a side effect of the cure for the disease caused by the genetic manipulations they started fooling around with (I also haven't checked Memory Alpha though). And there was a reference to it in DS9 (I think) when Worf says "We don't talk about this time" or something like that. I was actually miffed because I thought the Klingons were too ridgey. There are TNG era Klingons with that amount of facial ridge. And I remember when I first saw those Klingon helmets in the deleted scenes from STXI I liked the idea that because they didn't have the actual ridges they were making their own.
But yeah, they feel very different from the Klingons we know, eh?
I didn't see the Bat'leth. And I hadn't realized what was so weird about that fight scene until you pointed it out. Repelling makes NO SENSE!
Those eps are SO GOOD. Actually all of season 4 is so great that any of the so-so things about the rest of the series is more than worth worth wading through. In my opinion anyway.
I heard a rumour that it was because they found out they were getting canned and ended up hiring some fan writers to really delve into a lot of the Trek history and mythology. I don't know how true this is. But however it happened they did a bang up job!
Moving is hard on regular fannish activies, isn't it?
Now I want to rewatch Enterprise! Although I'm still in DS9 (I've been really slow going through that - but there is a lot of it). So I might do that first. :)
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I actually didn't pick up that they were supposed to be photon torpedoes. I was confused about why they were going all the way to Kronos, because the way they were talking about the missiles led me to believe they could be piloted from far away like a drone. Very confusing.
Yeah, the Klingons were weird. And I was disappointed that they still had facial ridges. AND YOU SHOULD TOTALLY MAKE A KLINGON VID!! Maybe it's because I'm a TNG etc girl but I always preferred the Kingons to the Vulcans.
I just want them to adequately explain what kind of an alternate universe we're in! Is it a straight up fork-in-the-road? In which case how was someone else finding the Botany Bay nearly 10 years earlier influenced by the destruction of the Kelvin? So much more would make sense if Spock Prime travelled universes as well as time.
I just want Karl Urban in my eyeballs all the time. And especially when he's Bones. :)
(edit because: Bones icon.)
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But yeah, they feel very different from the Klingons we know, eh?
I didn't see the Bat'leth. And I hadn't realized what was so weird about that fight scene until you pointed it out. Repelling makes NO SENSE!
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I heard a rumour that it was because they found out they were getting canned and ended up hiring some fan writers to really delve into a lot of the Trek history and mythology. I don't know how true this is. But however it happened they did a bang up job!
Moving is hard on regular fannish activies, isn't it?
Now I want to rewatch Enterprise! Although I'm still in DS9 (I've been really slow going through that - but there is a lot of it). So I might do that first. :)
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