Post by kempecjr on Sept 6, 2007 18:46:11 GMT -5
1) KLINGON HOME PLANET
Kling is the homeworld of the Klingon Empire according to the trade
paperback book "The Aliens of Star Trek" which was released back in the
late 1980s.
Klinzhai (sp) was the name John Ford came up with.
In the Star Fleet Battles universe, the capital is named "Klinshai".
ST6 "The Undiscovered Country": Referred to as "Kronos", which is spelled
QonoS in Klingonese. Michael Piller is going around at conventions
recently telling people that this is in fact the official name of the
homeworld. At the end of ST6, Qonos was evacuated. Since it is referenced
in TNG, etc., it was either repopulated or another planet was thereafter
referred to as Qonos.
TNG has been trying to use the generic "Klingon Home World" to avoid all
this confusion.
TNG "Heart of Glory": Referred to as "Kling", but the reference is very
vague and can be interpreted in a number of ways.
TNG "Yesterday's Enterprise": Captain Garrett's crew took the E-C to glory
at Narendra III, which was NOT Khitomer (the planet where Worf's father and
mother died).
DS9 "House of Quark": Quark asks where he is. He is told he is on the
Klingon Homeworld, to which he replies: "Kronos? How did I get here?"
Guy Vardaman, who is an extra on TNG, mentioned at a 9/25/93 Creation
Convention that the official name of the Klingon homeworld is Qo'nos
(pronounced "Kronos").
In the audiotape "Conversational Klingon," Kronos is specifically referred
to as the Klingon Homeworld.
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2) KLINGON FOREHEADS
There's no real explanation as to why the Klingons have spiny foreheads in
TFS and TNG but not in TOS. Gene has said "they always looked like this"
and we're supposed to ignore the lack of the pizza bats on the foreheads in
TOS. Theories outside of Gene run from genetic engineering to "several
races of Klingons".
FASA explains in their role-playing game (and possibly also mentioned by
John M Ford) that the TOS Klingons are actually Klingon-Human fusions
bio-engineered by Imperial Klingons (ridge-heads) to deal with
humans/Federation. Sometime before TNG they were exiled or something.
This was originally printed in "The Aliens of Star Trek".
Shane Johnson's "The Worlds of the Federation" explains it on page 114:
"It is interesting to note that for many years the true appearance of the
Klingon race was unkown. The "Klingons" encountered along the Federation
border with the Empire were a Klingon-human fusion, genetically created to
make infiltration into Federation areas easier. The interception of the
Amar transmission during the V'Ger incident revealed the true nature of the
Imperial Klingon race and stunned Federation science. Before that time, no
one had suspected that the Klingons were capable of such advanced genetic
engineering, and a great deal of rethinking was done concerning the level
of Klingon technology."
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3) KLINGON RITUALS
- The bonding of Worf and Jeremy Aster. ("The Bonding")
- Worf's rite of asscention with Klingon pain sticks ("The Icarus Factor").
- The Klingon tea ceremony is performed by Worf and Pulaski. The beverage
is poison to humans, so she drank the antidote. ("Up The Long Ladder")
- Worf and K'Ehlar almost go through the Klingon equivalent of a marriage
ceremony.
- When a Klingon dies, other Klingons warn the dead that a warrior is
coming by staring into the stiff's eyes and howling upward.
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Kling is the homeworld of the Klingon Empire according to the trade
paperback book "The Aliens of Star Trek" which was released back in the
late 1980s.
Klinzhai (sp) was the name John Ford came up with.
In the Star Fleet Battles universe, the capital is named "Klinshai".
ST6 "The Undiscovered Country": Referred to as "Kronos", which is spelled
QonoS in Klingonese. Michael Piller is going around at conventions
recently telling people that this is in fact the official name of the
homeworld. At the end of ST6, Qonos was evacuated. Since it is referenced
in TNG, etc., it was either repopulated or another planet was thereafter
referred to as Qonos.
TNG has been trying to use the generic "Klingon Home World" to avoid all
this confusion.
TNG "Heart of Glory": Referred to as "Kling", but the reference is very
vague and can be interpreted in a number of ways.
TNG "Yesterday's Enterprise": Captain Garrett's crew took the E-C to glory
at Narendra III, which was NOT Khitomer (the planet where Worf's father and
mother died).
DS9 "House of Quark": Quark asks where he is. He is told he is on the
Klingon Homeworld, to which he replies: "Kronos? How did I get here?"
Guy Vardaman, who is an extra on TNG, mentioned at a 9/25/93 Creation
Convention that the official name of the Klingon homeworld is Qo'nos
(pronounced "Kronos").
In the audiotape "Conversational Klingon," Kronos is specifically referred
to as the Klingon Homeworld.
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2) KLINGON FOREHEADS
There's no real explanation as to why the Klingons have spiny foreheads in
TFS and TNG but not in TOS. Gene has said "they always looked like this"
and we're supposed to ignore the lack of the pizza bats on the foreheads in
TOS. Theories outside of Gene run from genetic engineering to "several
races of Klingons".
FASA explains in their role-playing game (and possibly also mentioned by
John M Ford) that the TOS Klingons are actually Klingon-Human fusions
bio-engineered by Imperial Klingons (ridge-heads) to deal with
humans/Federation. Sometime before TNG they were exiled or something.
This was originally printed in "The Aliens of Star Trek".
Shane Johnson's "The Worlds of the Federation" explains it on page 114:
"It is interesting to note that for many years the true appearance of the
Klingon race was unkown. The "Klingons" encountered along the Federation
border with the Empire were a Klingon-human fusion, genetically created to
make infiltration into Federation areas easier. The interception of the
Amar transmission during the V'Ger incident revealed the true nature of the
Imperial Klingon race and stunned Federation science. Before that time, no
one had suspected that the Klingons were capable of such advanced genetic
engineering, and a great deal of rethinking was done concerning the level
of Klingon technology."
----------------------------------------------------------
3) KLINGON RITUALS
- The bonding of Worf and Jeremy Aster. ("The Bonding")
- Worf's rite of asscention with Klingon pain sticks ("The Icarus Factor").
- The Klingon tea ceremony is performed by Worf and Pulaski. The beverage
is poison to humans, so she drank the antidote. ("Up The Long Ladder")
- Worf and K'Ehlar almost go through the Klingon equivalent of a marriage
ceremony.
- When a Klingon dies, other Klingons warn the dead that a warrior is
coming by staring into the stiff's eyes and howling upward.
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