Re: Klingon Question.
Koriel wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 21:40:45 -0600, "McReynolds" > <rmcrey@nospam.flash.net> wrote: > > >The only problem with this is why Kor, Koloth, Kang, and Kahless have all > >appeared as "smooth" and "bumpy" Klingons. There is a simple and reasonable > >explanation. All Klingons develop the ridged forehead. However, the > >"smooth" Klingons develop it sometime during middle age. > > That doesn't explain why Alexander had forehead ridges when he was a > kid. My personal hypothesis is that there was a temporal incursion - > Klingons originally had smooth forheads, but sometime between 2268 and > 2271, someone went way back in time, did something that messed up the > time-continuum and changed the Klingons evolutionary path, resulting > in ridged foreheads. That could explain why all Klingons after that > have ridged foreheads even when they didn't have them before. If he disturbed the evolution of the Klingons, also the Klingons of the TOS-era would have ridges, because it's still the same timeline. Besides, you replied here withour reading it very carefully. His theory states the Klingons born with smooth forehead later on developed the ridges. You state Alexander as an example of the opposite, but nobody suggested that there weren't any Klingon's born with ridges (as he stated in his mail, but yopu snipped it). In "The worlds of the Federation" they say that the TOS-klingons were genetically altered to infiltrate and smooth contact with the humans (maybe they thought the humans would be too scared of the REAL Klingons). If you can browse through the archives of this news-group, you'll find a very long discussion about it, but this is the only answer I know to be in a book. I admit, the theory of the one you replied to isn't so bad either.. ------------------------------------------------------------- Lt (j.g.) Jeroen Vantroyen Chief Engineer, USS Belgica, NCC 72301 E-mail : Jeroen.Vantroyen@rug.ac.be Homepage on Star Trek Engineering : http://inf4serv.rug.ac.be/~jvtroyen/ -------------------------------------------------------------