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Episode Analysis | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x01 “The Broken Circle” (startrek.website)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is the Daystrom Institute Episode Analysis thread for Strange New Worlds 2x01 The Broken Circle.

Now that we've had a few days to digest the content of the latest episode, this thread is a place to dig a little deeper.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am confused by the choice to have the Klingons look like the redesign. This is TOS era so surely they should look like TOS era Klingons, no?

Is the consensus that the Klingons "changed"? I assume it's taken as a design characteristic. The same way this Enterprise feels very different and more futuristic/advanced than the one in TOS, but it is the same Enterprise. At least that's how I take it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The reason why I say the Klingons "changed" and it's not just a design characteristic is when the crew of DS9 goes back in time to the tribble incidence on board the enteprise, a character (I believe Odo) asks Worf to explain why the Klingons then look so different from him. He gets agitated and refuses to talk about it. If I recall as well, Afflication, the ENT episode has a story indicating that something regarding Augment experimentation resulted in different looking Klingons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh I had no idea! I'm not well versed outside of TOS, TGN (not much) and STN :) Thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Absolutely! Highly recommend watching DS9 :)