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For Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), the Klingons were "reimagined", or retconned, and were depicted with ridged foreheads, new uniforms, and a distinctive Klingon language. Gene Roddenberry said that the movie-era Klingons are closer to his original vision but could not be realized in a low-budget television show. [3]
Hollywood.com said "Errand of Mercy" was among the best of Star Trek episodes about the Klingons, noting in this episode the war-craving Klingons thought the Organians were peasants. [5] [6] A ranking of every episode of the original series by Hollywood, placed this episode 25th out of 79 episodes. [7]
The Klingons (/ ˈ k l ɪ ŋ (ɡ) ɒ n / KLING-(g)on; [2] Klingon: tlhIngan [ˈt͡ɬɪŋɑn]) are a humanoid species of aliens in the science fiction franchise Star Trek.. Developed by screenwriter Gene L. Coon in 1967 for the original Star Trek series, Klingons were humanoids characterized by prideful ruthlessness and brutality.
In "Requiescat in Pace, John M. Ford", Eric Burns suggests that the popularity of Ford's inside look at Klingon culture, and his positive portrayal of Klingons as an honorable people by their own lights (not simply stock villains), also influenced the canonical depiction in later incarnations of Star Trek, paving the way for honor-driven Klingons like Worf, and episodes that would likewise ...
In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 2 premiere — now streaming on Paramount+ — Spock & Co. absconded with the Enterprise to a mining planet on the edge of Klingon space, where they ...
Io9's 2014 listing of the top 100 Star Trek episodes placed "Day of the Dove" as the 99th best episode of all series up to that time, out of over 700 episodes of the franchise. [ 2 ] In 2016, SyFy ranked guest star Michael Ansara as Kang (the Klingon leader), as the 13th best guest star on the original series. [ 3 ]
The Klingon Way: A Warrior's Guide (Klingon: tlhIngan tIgh: SuvwI' DevmeH paq) is a 1996 book by the linguist Marc Okrand that was published by Pocket Books. The Klingon Way is a collection of proverbs and sayings in the constructed language of Klingon, ascribed to the Klingon race and Klingon culture in the fictional Star Trek universe.
The IDIC Epidemic is a science fiction novel by American writer Jean Lorrah, part of the Star Trek: The Original Series saga. [1] The novel provides an explanation of why the Klingons seen in the original series have a very different appearance from the "Imperial" Klingons with huge forehead ridges seen later.