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• thepreciousboar@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Everything about klingon for example, the spore drive itself. Even the uniforms!

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  • USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuckin’ jeepers, this is grasping at straws.

    There’s no “lore” regarding the spore drive or the uniforms, so nothing to disregard.

    What specific lore about the Klingons was abandoned by Disco. Just one specific thing. Any single, specific thing.

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    • thepreciousboar@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In Discovery, instead of honorable warriors, the klingons are a bunch of sneaky backstabbing and coward warriors. They also don’t look like klingons at all, both in appearance and architecture, the speak like their mouth is full of potatoes and for some reasons they make ships out of coffins.

      I’m not against change, what I don’t like is calling another thing with its name just because you get to be part of a franchise. The only thing they have in common with klingons of other series is the language and that they want to kill. All the modifications they made, just for the sake of it, makes it look like they wanted to use the standard scifi appearal of standard bad aliens and just put the name “klingons” on it. No surprise they reverted this change and discarded all of this in season two.

      Btw “the klingons started growing their hair again” might be the single most stupid line I’ve ever heard in a Trek show, especially considering the reason why it was said.

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      • USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In Discovery, instead of honorable warriors, the klingons are a bunch of sneaky backstabbing and coward warriors.

        Like they are in TOS?

        They also don’t look like klingons at all

        Are you similarly upset by the change in appearance the occurred between TOS and TMP?

        and architecture

        Architecture? I don’t know, the House Mo’Kai fortress we see in season two doesn’t seem all that out of place. The rounded towers of the capital city seen in ENT is a greater divergence than anything we see in Disco. But that’s also fine, because architectural styles change over time.

        the speak like their mouth is full of potatoes

        And apparently, according to experts in the language, that’s the best Klingon has ever sounded on screen. Not really sure how that qualifies as a lore thing, though.

        they make ships out of coffins.

        One ship. The home of a cult leader.

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