The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldcakeM to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world · 11 months agoWell this explains why I like both.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square70linkfedilinkarrow-up1609arrow-down116
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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-211 months agoTo be fair, Klingons were “just” Space Russians in the TOS era. It wasn’t until after after Praxis/Chernobyl when the Soviet allegory ceased being topical, that they had to find other themes for them to embody.
minus-squareViatorOmnium@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-211 months agoEven in TOS the Klingons weren’t as flat as orcs are in LOTR. Roddenberry always tried to make sure their motivations made them “heroes in their own story”, while Tolkien wrote orcs as evil by nature.
minus-squaresupersquirrel@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoYeah but they didn’t stay that way, DS9 had a Klingon restaurant on it!
To be fair, Klingons were “just” Space Russians in the TOS era. It wasn’t until after after Praxis/Chernobyl when the Soviet allegory ceased being topical, that they had to find other themes for them to embody.
Even in TOS the Klingons weren’t as flat as orcs are in LOTR.
Roddenberry always tried to make sure their motivations made them “heroes in their own story”, while Tolkien wrote orcs as evil by nature.
Yeah but they didn’t stay that way, DS9 had a Klingon restaurant on it!