Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usceast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted From: ted@usceast.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: "klingon" : race or nationality Message-ID: <2066@usceast.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 04:48:34 EDT Article-I.D.: usceast.2066 Posted: Thu Jun 21 04:48:34 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jun-84 00:44:00 EDT Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia Lines: 18 There has been a lot of speculation lately that perhaps the Klingons in the ST movies look different than those in the series because "klingon" is a political designation not a racial one, and that the Klingon Empire encompasses many races. I don't think this quite works though. Remember in "The Trouble with Tribbles" Bones was immediately able to spot the klingon agent with a medical scan. This argues an identifiable klingon race, so there must be another explanation for the klingons with funny heads. My guess? Well we all know what fashion hounds klingons are, it's probably just the latest style from the trend setting biosculpture studios in the klingon Paris equivalent! :-) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Nolan ...decvac!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted 6536 Brookside Circle Columbia, SC 29206 ("Sixty-sixty?" he suggested) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------