quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: But one could assume that if proper quarantine proceedures took place, then there would be normal Klingons still out there and the virus (stopped in stage 1) will remain in those infected areas.
There's always the probability of uninfected Klingons out there. But for the survival of the species, it would make sense to innoculate as many people as possible... Plus, let's say the council got infected - how much pride would be lost if they ha to go ridgeless while everyone else stayed the same?
Hey, what about those Klingons Voyager ran into... Anyone remember when they left the Empire?
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The Voyager Klingons left around 2390 or close to it I think.
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I must have missed the prologue, which is odd because I recorded the whole thing. Oh well.
I still am not quite prepared to suspend my disbelief that EVERY SINGLE KLINGON we saw from 2266 to 2270 was smooth-headed, and NOT A SINGLE ONE after that.
OTOH, I suppose we can go with the old FASA notion that the High Council used the Klingon-augments to interact with humans along the border because they were better suited to it. General K'Vagh *did* seem to imply that this was their intended purpose all along.
This is one of those stories that could have worked well, but wasn't executed very effectively. Too many plot elements were not clearly defined and thus seemed to change throughout the course of the episodes. The reason for kidnapping Phlox (to cure a plague or create Klingon-augments?) and the nature of the Klingon ridges' transmutation (caused by the genetic tampering or a side effect of the virus?) are the two most prominent examples.
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quote:4. I liked the Fleet Admiral's ship - I'm sure that is new!
Actually, it's the D5 battlecruiser, which first showed up in Marauders as a dilithium freighter variant, and later in Judgement as my favorite Klingon ship of all time.
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quote:4. I liked the Fleet Admiral's ship - I'm sure that is new!
Actually, it's the D5 battlecruiser, which first showed up in Marauders as a dilithium freighter variant, and later in Judgement as my favorite Klingon ship of all time.
Well I liked the position they put the camera - looking down at it from a higher orbit.
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"Too many plot elements were not clearly defined and thus seemed to change throughout the course of the episodes. The reason for kidnapping Phlox (to cure a plague or create Klingon-augments?) and the nature of the Klingon ridges' transmutation (caused by the genetic tampering or a side effect of the virus?) are the two most prominent examples."
They kidnapped Phlox to cure the plague. The general just wanted him to perfect the augmentation in the process.
And I got the impression that the change in appearance was caused by the virus, but I could be wrong.
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Change in appearance was caused by the fact that human augment DNA was more "aggressive" than they expected, and they couldn't compensate. Virus just made it spread to people they didn't purposefully infect.
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Does anyone have the dialogue handy? I remember someone giving the order to disable the Klingon ships' engines. The corresponding FX show the Bird of Prey's "blocks" on either side of the dorsal hump getting hit. Were they taking out the warp or impulse engines?
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I found the dialogue, but can't see where the reference was made...actually, i did find: "One of the ships is losing power." -- "Their port nacelle is vulnerable." -- "Then fire at will.". Not sure if that is referring to the Klingons or Starfleet.
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