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Baloo: I checked out that site and I agree with you. In fact I posted a nearly identical theory on Psi Phi (or was it on one of the previous versions of this site?) a couple of years ago before it went kaput. In addition to his comments I want to add something I included in that original post. The idea that the difference in foreheads seem to be related to some social revolution is also supported by Dax's comments to Martok's wife in "You Are Cordially Invited" in which she says that the Klingons had a disastrous flirtation with democracy that is still being called "the dark period". Timewise it seems to coincide with the ages of Kor and Kang and the TOS period and Martok's wife's reaction was nearly the same sort of anger and embarassment that Worf displayed in Trials and Tribbleations when it was mentioned.
The thing this theory seems to have most in its favor is that its the only one that can be supported by interpretation of canonical facts and quotes. It's strange (and probably a little self-deluding) but I sometimes think that if we can get enough people to accept this definition that the writers may even use it someday and cement it. It certainly makes the most sense to me.
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About the Klingons: Tomy Myle's theory is similar tooen I read somewhere: Klingons in contact with the Federation were physically altered so that they could do some spying on the Feds.
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It's just a matter of budgets and make-up and how both improved with time. Personally, I think it's a little pointless to try to come up with theories regarding the klingon forhead, its just one of those things to which the golden rule of science fiction must be applied.
Golden Rule: Suspend all disbelief
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While I used to advocate just ignoring it, "Trials and Tribble-ations" confirmed that the two kinds of Klingons are different, somehow.
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I'm sure Kor Kang and Koloth, wouldn't be too happy to here you saying that, they would assume themselves to be the same person for the last 150 years...
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Well, I won't go into my Klingon theory (which I'm about to send to the Sev people), but I'll egt back to the "why so many aliens in the UFP but not in the Klingon and Romulan Empires" question. That's kind of like asking why a UN forca has Americans, British, French, etc., but a Russian force only has Russians in it. And I'm not advocationg Klingons' representing the Russians, or anything like that. It's just a real-world example.
Erm... Russia isn't in the UN, is it? If it is, I just rather screwed up...
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Russia is not only a member, but they have a veto.
Blush away, TSN!
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The real Klingon problem is not the two different foreheads but the fact the flat foreheads were only seen in TOS and the ridge foreheads only in TMP and hence. Since it seems ridiculous and little honorable that whole ship crews were surgically altered (why?), the only remaining explanation is that there are two different Klingon races.
TSN: You had better taken the NATO and Russia as example. Still, there are not only Russians in the Russian army...
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