The Picard ManeuverM to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your [email protected] • 18 days agoWell this explains why I like both.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1603
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•edit-218 days 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-218 days agoYeah but they didn’t stay that way, DS9 had a Klingon restaurant on it!
minus-squareViatorOmniumlinkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-218 days 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.
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.
Yeah but they didn’t stay that way, DS9 had a Klingon restaurant on it!
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.