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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8028306" data-attributes="member: 6779310">TOS had no &quot;black&quot; actors for Klingons. Michael Ansara was Syrian by birth. And he was swarthy - he often played Native Americans. He didn't need much makeup to look dark. He's about as dark as TOS cast for Klingons gets. Charlie Pickerni, in the B&amp;W headshots on IMDB, looks about as dark, and is Italian in ethno-ancestry. The one who looks darkest in TOS, Kahless, is played by one of the whitest guys cast as a klingon...&nbsp; Bob Heron.To be honest, I think Aurelio Voltaire gets the look (and the 'tude) right when he sings, &quot;And what is with the Klingons? Remember, in the dayThey looked like Puerto Ricans and they dressed in gold laméNow they look like heavy metal rockers from the deadWith leather pants and frizzy hair and lobsters on their heads&quot; (USS Make S*** Up)THey all got the eyebrow treatment, tho'...And, even in DS9, Kang, Qor, and Koloth are still relatively light skinned in their DS9 appearances. Note that that was before the &quot;reveal&quot; in Ent of why TOS klingons were different, and so no explanation for why THEY have ridges now is given, as DS9 was still, at that point, operating under the &quot;They were always meant to look like heavy metal rockers from the dead&quot; mode.I always preferred, and still do, the FASA-Trek explanation to the Enterprise one: the TOS klingons were hybrids created to hide the &quot;pure&quot; Klingons. The Discovery approach (modified individuals) just doesn't work for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 8028306, member: 6779310"] TOS had no "black" actors for Klingons. Michael Ansara was Syrian by birth. And he was swarthy - he often played Native Americans. He didn't need much makeup to look dark. He's about as dark as TOS cast for Klingons gets. Charlie Pickerni, in the B&W headshots on IMDB, looks about as dark, and is Italian in ethno-ancestry. The one who looks darkest in TOS, Kahless, is played by one of the whitest guys cast as a klingon... Bob Heron. To be honest, I think Aurelio Voltaire gets the look (and the 'tude) right when he sings, " And what is with the Klingons? Remember, in the day They looked like Puerto Ricans and they dressed in gold lamé Now they look like heavy metal rockers from the dead With leather pants and frizzy hair and lobsters on their heads" (USS Make S*** Up) THey all got the eyebrow treatment, tho'... And, even in DS9, Kang, Qor, and Koloth are still relatively light skinned in their DS9 appearances. Note that that was before the "reveal" in Ent of why TOS klingons were different, and so no explanation for why THEY have ridges now is given, as DS9 was still, at that point, operating under the "They were always meant to look like heavy metal rockers from the dead" mode. I always preferred, and still do, the FASA-Trek explanation to the Enterprise one: the TOS klingons were hybrids created to hide the "pure" Klingons. The Discovery approach (modified individuals) just doesn't work for me. [/QUOTE]

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