Which is what they should have left it at instead of trying to put it into canon. Star Trek has always been revisionist, and the ST:Ent episodes were stupid.
I honestly couldn’t care less. ST:ENT has a lot of fan service, sometimes within canon, sometimes stretching it, in this case explaining something that didn’t need an explanation but neither suffered from it. I don’t see how it’s revisionist but I haven’t watched it in years.
Top left is the result of a failed enhancement virus whose cure left a large portion of the population without ridges. A weird means to explain the transition from TOS to TNG Klingons.
What happened? Some kind of genetic engineering?
To quote Whorf: We don’t discuss this with outsiders
That entire bit is one of my favorite scenes in all of Star Trek. It’s so well cut in to the original episode footage, it’s great.
Which is what they should have left it at instead of trying to put it into canon. Star Trek has always been revisionist, and the ST:Ent episodes were stupid.
I honestly couldn’t care less. ST:ENT has a lot of fan service, sometimes within canon, sometimes stretching it, in this case explaining something that didn’t need an explanation but neither suffered from it. I don’t see how it’s revisionist but I haven’t watched it in years.
Top left is the result of a failed enhancement virus whose cure left a large portion of the population without ridges. A weird means to explain the transition from TOS to TNG Klingons.
That’s not the right line.
Jaysus… 🫠