| I like everybody. And the show. My first major scifi show. I like Worf and Deanna Troi, but I also like Worf and Riker's friendship. Nice energetic guy, Riker! Picard was excellently played by Patrick Stewart. All the actors are talented, I've seen them in other movies too.
I like the Klingons, as a culture, even if it seems crueler or fiercer. And the Betaziods too. A masterpiece of scifi. |
| Hi, About the reason why Klingons in the original series look more like "humans" whereas in the Next Generation they look more alien, is explained in Star Trek: Enterprise (season 4, if memory serves), the very first Starfleet ship (the Federation doesn't exist yet), starring Scott Bakula from Code Quantum. The story takes about 50 years after first contact with the Vulcan, so about a 100 year before the Original serie with Kirk. The Enterprise is the very first deep space starship of Earth. It is only capable of warp 5 max, got no shields, no tractor beam... well not very sophisticated. Anyway, the reason is because the Klingons tried to enhanced their race by tempering wiht their genes. The reason of this is because a bird of prey was hijacked only 2 humans augments (genetically enhanced humans), who managed to overcome an entire crew of Klingons ! After the incident, the Klingon High Council decided to do some research in this area and took as a template some human augments gene samples. Unfortunately, their experiment didn't quite worked out and in the process, they also developped an new lethal disease. Fortunately the Enterprise Doctor and captain Archer managed to save the day for the Klingons. But all the klingons who were exposed to the experiment would lose their ridges and look like humans and they passed on these features to their descendants for a few generations, because the genetic alteration is only temporary. Of course, augments research is banned on Earth after the Eugenic war. All augments were thought to be dead. That was without taking into account their "father", Dr Soong (whose later work led to the ceation of the android Data, in ST: The Next Gen.) has hidden a few embryos... |
