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Hi, hon, how you want your Klingon today? Smooth or extra bumpy?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] I would humbly ask the person who doesn't like Peter David's non-New Frontier books to elucidate a bit more. I love Imzadi. I, Q is a darned good read. Q Squared does parallel universes and time travel better than DS9 or Voyager. I find his representations of existing characters to be closer to the mark than many other authors can manage (Grounded springs to mind -- *yick*). Sure he makes up details from time to time where there weren't any supplied by the shows, and often when the shows get around to it, they contradict him. That's to be expected, and I don't fault him for that. When it comes to other authors, Diane Carey is a damn good storyteller. She just needs someone who knows the timeline, physics, and practices of the universe to edit what she comes up with... Daffyd ab Hugh is really good. Diane Duane and John Ford kick literary butt. The Reeves-Stevens couple I classify with Peter David -- they're hacks, but they're good ones. *shrug* Basically, I give everything a once-over when it comes out, but I tend to stay with a few authors I know to be good at their craft. That said, I was REALLY impressed with A Stitch in Time. And lastly, to touch on the topic of this thread... There are so many things TPTB could have done to smooth the problem of the Klingon foreheads, but they ended up taking the absolute WORST route. The DC graphic novel "Debt of Honor" used one of the common fandom explanations -- that there are two (or more) visibly distinct races of Klingon, one with smooth foreheads, and one with bumpy. Said graphic novel deals in part with the bumpy-heads gaining ascendany in the high council and the smooth-heads being racially discommoded. And Kor was trying to reverse the situation. The other route they could have taken they even set up for in Star Trek VI. Notice Chang has very subdued, almost vestigial, forehead ridges. Note also the similarity of Chang's and Kang's names. Wouldn't it have been so easy to portray Kang, Kor, and Koloth with similar "barely-there" ridges in "Blood Oath" and not create this problem in the first place? *sigh* --Jonah "And everybody wants prosthetic foreheads for their real heads..." -- They Might Be Giants, "We Want A Rock" [/QB][/QUOTE]
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