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The preview showed a very nice picture of the hanger deck with, I think, at least three shuttlecrafts and several Klingons. Does anyone have a screencap and can we work to identify the class or name of these ships? Thank you.
(Just a nibble until next week. I surely hope that they have a new Klingon design.)
What's the current word? Would the Klingons have been underway for three generations? How long is a Klingon generation? If one counts using natural life expectancy, the ship could be 300 years old - pre-TOS, perhaps even pre-Fed. If one counts from birth to procreation, as is usual, and Alexander was in his advanced teens physically at the chronological age of eight, it could be just 25 years old...
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Klingons have an average natural life expectancy that is over 100 years, I believe. I would guess that few make it that long, but still...
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Wait a minute. I've heard that the average life expectance of a Klingon was less than that of an average human.
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Yeah, but that would include the part where the Klingon gets hacked to pieces by another Klingon. "Natural" life expectancy would be how old a Klingon gets if he happens to win all his duels - the three TOS Klingons Kor, Kang and Koloth seem to have lived at least a hundred and thirty years, assuming they were 25 or so in TOS (although they looked much older in TOS by human standards, we know Klingons mature fast and look like teenagers at age eight).
I guess the writers of the next ep are using a standard 25-year generation, meaning the ship is about 75 years old and thus probably another K't'inga. It would be really cool to see another design from that era, though.
Unfortunately, the spoiler only showed the ship twice: As it decloaks, and as it blows up. Couldn't get a reliable look either way. Guess I'll just have to wait another week!
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It looked like a D7/K't'inga to me when the thing blew up. It had the characteristic "wings" at the back.
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I looked over the mpeg very closely (too bad I can't preintscreen it) and its clearly a K'tinga or a very, very similar ship... from the front you can see the typical stripe of lights across the head, and as mentioned above, the back is also very K'tingian.
Also, considering this puppy has a cloak, it ought to be interesting to see if we can get a new earliest date of Klingon ships having cloaks from the ep.
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It looks like it to me, K'Tinga that is, or however the heck it is spelled...
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But is it the ca. 225m K't'inga we have learned to love, or the ca. 350m behemoth suggested in the DS9 TM? Here we could finally see the modern K't'inga next to a ship whose dimensions are well known and accepted - and probably the VFX people choose to show it from ambiguous angles so that we can't do a comparison! Damn.
Yeah, this could definitely help with the issue of when Klingons got cloaks for their cruisers, once we hear the exact timeline of the events.
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We might be able to tell depending on how many Klingons are on the ship. I seem to remember reading a spoiler that said the crew size of Voyager would triple or something with all these Klingons aboard, which would mean roughly 300 Klingons.
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According to the brief synopsis of the episode available at startrek.com, the Klingon ship's crew compliment is "over 200". Though, considering the events of the episode, that may not be average.
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