What's up guys CJ here and welcome back to another all new Star trek discovery video and today
I figured it was probably time to dive more into something that we've discussed really briefly over the course my last few videos the klingon
redesign already
this is one of the most controversial aspects of this new show a
massive design change to want to Star Trek's most
iconic Alien races which had stayed largely the same since they debuted in the 60s with some minor design updates here and there along the
Way, this is a complete design overhaul though, and now they look much more alien
Maybe a little bit too similar to Idris Elba's Star Trek Beyond villain crawl
Which I'm actually sure it was not intentional so I figured in this video
I'd take a look at some of the major changes in the design both compared to worf from the next generation
And other klingons throughout series history first up
Maybe the most notable change the hair and you might notice a key difference between the discovery klingons and any
Klingons before is that the new look is
100% hairless with none on the top of their head no facial hair of any kind or even
Eyebrows this definitely results in a little more of an alien look
But it also kind of fits in the larger biology of the klingons specifically their reduced resistance to cold which is something
Evolutionary having hair would help solve the lack of hair also serves to further highlight their brow ridges which brings us to item number
two going all the way back to the earliest appearances of the klingons
It seems like the trend has been for them to get richer and richer with the smooth
Rigidus look of the original series Klingons explained away as a
Specific genetically mutated group by the time we get to worf in the next generation the ridges are super prominent easily the Klingons most
Identifiable feature well if you like the brow ridges, you're in luck the klingons just got eaten more of them
Not only do they seem a little more highlighted and pronounced as the Alien race
No wonder seems to have hair they seem to have more on the sides of their head, too
And in some cases running down back to their spines
It seems like these kind of follow the edges of the bones to a certain extent so I'd be interested to see if this is
A pattern occurring all over their body or just in the brow and all over the skull
They also don't seem to be the same on every klingon. Which is consistent with some of the previous background given to the ridges
But there's unique to each individual
families often share special
Patterns or features just as the brow ridges seem to be more enhanced and prominent so did the aliens noses
They all initially seemed kind of sharper and a little bit pulled back and more
Textured even more texture than worf had on his which definitely wasn't just a stray humanoid nose honestly
It looks like they took the redesign from Star trek into darkness and then took it a step even further
another Major change is their color you know while most klingons throughout the previous incarnation were Roughly human Shades running from Darker Brown to
Lighter in the case of certain individuals like general chiang the klingons of Star Trek discovery are for the most part distinctly
non-Human Hues
Takuma one of the main Klingon figures in the series is an ironic Li Literally jet-black while his protege cole looks almost
purple and others shown earlier looks great even
The different colors could be used much like the patterns in the brown ridges to identify certain tribes certain clans or even certain smaller
families
But we'll just have to wait and see about that
Last but not least one of the more underrated changes made to everyone's favorite on-again off-again
Antagonistic Aliens their fashion sense that might sound like a joke
But I'm actually not even kidding if you look at the style of the original series klingons and even the next-generation klingons
It's very kind of tribal and when they do wear armor it almost looks like old-school leather fast forwards your discoveries klingons
Or maybe take a few steps back in time
And you can see the armor is actually much more ornate and kind of resembles bones
Which goes back to my point about they're ridges?
Maybe covering more than just their brows
Would you see like on coal for instance that on a regular basis they might wear more of some normal leather looking stuff
So maybe what we see takuma wearing and the rest and that kind of meeting scene was just ceremonial armor
But we'll just have to wait and see
So let me know what you think of the redesign and what you think of this little guide and comment section down below
But that's going to do it for me here
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