From Syfyportal, "Blow that dust off your English-Klingon dictionary, because IDW Publishing is finally giving you a use for it.
The comic book publisher is presenting a new miniseries of Star Trek comics that will chronicle five key encounters between Capt. Kirk and the Klingons -- but from the perspective of the bad guys (yes, that's the Klingons, for the slow).
The new comic miniseries, "Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell," will be released in five parts beginning in April, and will take a reverse view of some popular original series incidents like "A Private Little War" and even "The Trouble With Tribbles." It will be written by Scott Tipton with help from brother David Tipton, and will be inked by artist David Messina. Joe Corroney also will be involved, working with Messina on the various covers that will be used.
And as an added bonus for the real avid Star Trek fans, the first issue also will be released complete in the Klingon language. The 40-page story will be filled with the grunts and gurgles that we have grown to love with the Klingons. But if you don't have a translation handy, IDW promises to provide an English translation script along with it."
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Cool idea but the whole "Klingon language" thing is ridiculous. What do they think this is, Tolkien?
And anyway I'm sorry but the Klingons are intrinsically kind of silly, don't you guys think? The big triangular leather shirts? The word "Klingon"? The wild-eyed, imperious acting the guest stars always do when they're playing Klingons? (David Warner and Christopher Plummer would have none of that, obviously; and Plummer wouldn't wear the facial ridges so they came up with something else). Plus, the Klingons were just jerks in the original series; no morality etc. Now it's all about these goddamned "important rituals" which involve fervent wild-eyed stares and loud recitations of that gutteral gibberish (which is the point of the original post).
Agreed! My main complaint about the Klingons is that there is no way that such an angry/emotional species would be able to evolve and design technology. I mean, given their presentation shouldn't they basically still be living in caves? How did they invent cloaking?
Stupid Klingons.
Aw, I dunno. Klingon-heavy eps on TNG include some of my favorites, but the same eps on DS9 would be kind of lame, unless it was a Worf-heavy episode. Watching him deal with the culture -- or represent it -- was pretty fun.
It is weird that they transformed from their conniving "red menace" persona from TOS, that having been handed off to the crafty Romulans. And like JPX, I've often wondered how anyone could be a Klingon scientist or accountant and live past junior high school. You can't have your entire service class think they're crap b/c they haven't sunk a bat'leth into someone's head.
I recall discussing a breakdown of how the various Trek aliens fit into a schema of real-world international politics, but I can't really remember the results. Let's see...
Federation = USA
Klingons = post Cold War Russians
Romulans = Cold War Russians
Ferengi = Japanese, or maybe OPEC
Borg = Microsoft
Cardassians = Frat boys
Dominion = that country with all the shapechangers
I agree that the TNG stuff is good. Maybe it's because I've been into Battlestar Galactica, which shows you what sci-fi TV can be like when all the silliness is taken out (which doesn't by any means suggest that this is the only way to do it).
The Romulans invented cloaking.
"Frat boys"? The Cardassians are the Palestinians!
Isn't that the same thing? Okay, not really.
I just realized I said "frat boys" because Wendy Marston made that crack when Mike and I had our DS9 premiere party all those years ago. It fit at the time. The whole Maquis storyline came a couple of seasons later.
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