Khas wrote: ↑Tue Sep 18, 2018 12:39 am
Actually, given the age of the Klingons seen in "Into Darkness", it looks like they were born BEFORE Nero's time-travel shenanigans.
That's not relevant. It's a different universe anyway, but even if you don't accept that there's the simple fact that time travel, by its very nature, is a shotgun when used against a future time traveler.
That is to say, if you screw with Kirk, you not only screw with him, but with all his temporal screwings.
Also, Discovery didn't give us ridges going all the way down a Klingon's back. TNG did.
1. Sagittal ridges refers to the sagittal crest, the top center part of the head. Some creatures have very pronounced fin-like crests. It is, where applicable, where strong jaw muscles connect on real Earth animals.
2. Based on Chang (whose less-pronounced Klingon ridges suggest a hybrid), Klingon ridges may extend somewhat beyond the hairline, though Klingon hairline start points vary so much it's hard to say for sure. (Several TMP, TUC, and TNG-era Klingons had more Picardian hairlines compared to others.) Chang had no apparent ridgework on the back of the head or the neck.
3. Worf's spinal ridges are not seen to extend above the base of the neck. See TNG's first season where his neck was frequently visible.
4. Kurn's pronounced chest bones are an oddity, either due to him being alcoholic and scrawny or from other damage. Fek'lhr, Klaa, et al. showed no such gappy sternum / bony chest, though most Klingon chests we've seen have been more muscular.
5. Klingons, especially females, never had any neck oddities, fore or aft, port or starboard. They also never had nasty Cardassian-like cleavage. See the Klingon damsel Valkris from ST3, or Vixis from ST5, or even Bu'KaH from ENT "Sleeping Dogs". No other evidence exists for Klingon neck oddities, either (see Chang notes above).
6. There are plenty of other glances at Klingon necks too numerous to count. Unlike STD Klingons, their necks don't have all that funky gnarliness going on. That's just there now so the make-up is easier and cheaper, just like the hairlessness, et cetera.
(Edit: Indeed, I imagine the cheap makeup is why the naked Klingon woman had weird shoulder ridges, also something new and odd . . . they didn't apply the makeup in a Westmore plant-on-bits fashion, which is complex, but instead had her wrapped in body-covering bits. The shoulder ridges are where the sleeves connected to the main bodysuit. Yuck.)
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