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From: chris@leadsv.UUCP (Chris Salander)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Appearances
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 15:34:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 30 15:34:48 1985
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Keywords: Star Trek, Movie, IV
Summary: Klingons, Romulans


In article <213@astroatc.UUCP>, johnw@astroatc.UUCP writes:
> 
> The cause is due to some novilization, where the author EXTRAPOLATED
> the nature of Klingons.  It was written (I know not where) that
> there were 3 breeds or races of Klingons.  Type 1 is most human like.
> Personally, I think the sieries authors didn't know the difference
> between Romulans and Klingons.  
> *ROMULANS*, who just happened to
> be using Klingon ships, the Romulans definatly had white skin. (Maybe
> well tanned, but NOT olive!)
> -- 

	1) I think it has already been agreed that the Klingons in the
TV series looked different than the Klingons in the movies because of 
the limited budget of the TV show.  It already had the highest cost of 
any series at that time and that was one of the motivations for cancelling
the show.  The same limited budget also explains the lack of "alien-ness"
in the Romulans.

	2) It is the consensus of most of the people that I have talked 
to that the Romulans were given Klingon ships because of the problems
that result from the Birds of Prey being SUB-LIGHT vessels.  Since it
was the third year, I doubt if there were the resources or the inclination
to build a new model.  But this sort of weapons exchange is common.
The Russians have been careful to dispose of all the photographs from 
WWII that show them fighting with American lend-lease equipment; but I
have seen a good picture of Russians advancing through Vienna with a
Sherman tank.

				- Christopher Salander