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> wrote:
> If they do come up with one, everyone who loves Klingons should pray
> that it isn't the Klingon-centered series that so many fans have
> rumored about through the years.
>
> They introduced the Cardassians in TNG, anmd I thought they were going
> to be a terrific replacement for the Klingons as antagonists for the
> Federation. Then, in select TNG episodes and during DS9, they proceed
> to give the Cardies weaknesses, show some doing "fifth-column" work
> against their government, etc., taking the mystique out of them (in my
> eyes, anyway).
>
> They introduced the Borg as adversaries, and then weaken them with
> "Hugh".
>
> They focus on the Ferengi during DS9, and, since this is Trek, start
> changing them from being very different until, at the end, they're on
> their way to being proto-Feds in Ferengi costumes, and the costume
> department may as well have added giant zippers to the Ferengis'
> backs..
>
> And the attention they gave the Klingons during DS9 ended up having
> the Empire on its way toward falling apart, political corruption (and
> even monetary greed, in one episode) replacing the warrior ethos in
> some, and even (as Kor lamented) Klingons operating restaurants and
> feeding the descendants of those he had fought.
>
> As stated, this is Trek. The aliens are presented with ways, beliefs,
> traditions, values, etc., different from the way the Trek execs think
> we should be today, and then the shows do their usual social
> engineering, one episode at a time, until the "undesirable" traits are
> changed. And, of course, the things that make the Klingon way of life
> what it is - expanding empire by aggression, fighting for fun,
> enjoying combat, blood oaths, eating live food, etc. - are
> "undesirable". So, any Klingon-specific show would, inexorably,
> change them until, by the end of the show's run, they'd no longer be
> the Klingons we love.
>
> Enough damage has been done. Let the next series be about something
> else, or let Trek fade away. But don't let the forces of political
> correctness finish off the Klingons.
The problem is that developing the Klingons along the lines of what
they were in TOS would leave no way they could ever have survived as a
society, much less developed space travel. They would have killed
themselves off to extinction while they were still cave Klingons. Once
they developed trade and cooperation necessary for survival, they were
the weak race you deplore. Everything else is just gingerbread.
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