At the Star Trek : Discovery board at New York Comic Con , a fan in the audience asked about the looking at of the Klingons , which the person asking the question discover as being the most “ African ” they ’ve ever looked . And to make them the villains can experience alienating .
Executive producer Alex Kurtzman said he want to address the Klingons , speaking for a long time . “ At the substance of Star Trek is the idea that what we recall of the other is a mirror to ourselves , ” he started . The effect of Kirtzman ’s argument was that the Klingons will be shown in a multidimensional way and would not simply be othered or villain . It was important , he enunciate , that “ we play both sides of the war in a way that is intelligible and relatable . ”
“ We ask to know what it was like for them to go through this too , ” he remain . “ We wanted to shift everyone ’s position of what the Klingons are because they ’ve often been relegated to just being the bad hombre . ” He add that the show would show lots of Klingons , that “ were all make around the cardinal premise of what Klingons are . ” But the destination was to “ for lack of a near Christian Bible , humanise them . ” To explicate what they want and why they want it . If they did n’t explore this , Kurtzman said , “ This would n’t be Star Trek . ”
Of naturally the fallacy to Kurtzman ’s literary argument is that the Klingons have been developed a heap more over the path of the 50 age they ’ve existed . By the end of Deep Space Nine , they ’d become friend , with a culture that rooter knew a lot about . Worf and B’Elanna Torres on Voyager both did a lot of work , as graphic symbol , to illuminate different things about that culture .
And the job Discovery faces is that a ) it ’s a prequel , so all this stuff they ’re adding to the Klingons has to be explicate in the context of the work the other shows will do , and the original series had much suaver , but much flatter , versions of Klingons b ) the tone of these Klingons is othering , it does bring into stereotypes of savages that specifically plays as a contrast to white and westerly aesthetics c ) even though the show takes place before the original series , it ’s airing after and it sense like we ’ve gone backwards with the Klingons .
Look , charitably , Discovery could be adding depth to rewatches of Star Trek : The Original Series , which only takes home ten years later . That could be what Kurtzman meant . But to say that this is breaking ground with the Klingons feel very disingenuous .
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