![]() ![]() The classical “us” and the space age “other” has been reborn. Gone are progressive views of understanding the commonalities of our existence. So what to make of the new Netflix series Discovery and its version of the Klingons? Set further in the past than the other series, watchers have been given a race of new/old Klingons which is physically extraordinary, kitted out like badass Egyptian warriors. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Klingons were more physically differentiated by exo-skeletal additions but they were friends now, not enemies any more, and although slightly erratic allies they fought on the same side as the Federation. They were the Cold War Soviets mixed with a bit of the Japanese from World War II (another enemy, the Romulans, also wore that hat). ![]() They were the “other”, but that “other” was also us. The 1960s Klingons were bad, untrustworthy, duplicitous enemies, but visually they looked pretty close to the sapiens on the Starship Enterprise. © 1969 Paramount PicturesĪcross each new iteration, the Klingons – a humanoid warrior species – have often been the alien of choice. ![]()
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