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.
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.
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lugal@sopuli.xyz · 35 pts · 2y
Tbf TOS era male Klingons didn't look too different from humans either
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 2y
Yeah, but they worked a little harder.
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 2y
"I want the male Klingons in black face"
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 7 pts · 2y
You couldn't make Star Trek today!
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 2y
They say, standing among at least three currently airing modern Star Trek shows
guyrocket@kbin.social · 22 pts · 2y
The dirty truth is that almost all sci-fi "aliens" look a hell of a lot like humans.
Zellith@kbin.social · 14 pts · 2y
Or humans look a lot like sci fi aliens.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 2y
Clint Howard is still the scariest looking alien ever depicted on TV.
JWBananas@startrek.website · 7 pts · 2y
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.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Depicting_Klingons
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 2y
Pretty much all Star Trek aliens are just human from the mouth downwards.
HawlSera@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
They insist that anything else would be uncanny valley
TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee · 17 pts · 2y
Female Klingons are ladies from Dublin, noted. They even share the orange fake tan.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
Mimi being Klingon makes a lot of sense now.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y
True matriarch of Duras.
Yamainwitch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Brooooo I was thinking the exact same thing!!
MNByChoice@midwest.social · 12 pts · 2y
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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
A lot of people think that's what it was.
That said, TNG started in
19971987 and the USSR collapsed in 1991.joyjoy@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 2y
So you're saying TNG caused the collapse of the Soviet Union?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
...
Yes.
Yes I am.
negativenull@startrek.website · 9 pts · 2y
Taleya@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y
Yeah but by '87 the writing was definitely on the wall for the USSR
Gregorech@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
1987, bit of a typo there my guy.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Yeah, I fixed it.
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
The Klingons are modeled after Japanese feudal society.
MNByChoice@midwest.social · 2 pts · 2y
Trust is super interesting!
saltnotsugar@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y
More eyelashes. More. Okay, I think you’re hearing, “Give me a lot of lashes.” What I mean is GIMMY ALL THE EYELASHES BABY!
joyjoy@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y
Lashes you say?
Taleya@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 2y
Ol' gene knew the cost of rubber in the 60's
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y
I don't think that means what you think it means.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
'Tis a pune
Todesschnitzel@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
This mother does have a flat forehead!