Average Klingon Height

[CuttingEdge100]

I know an average American human male is around 5-9 to 5-10 (1.75 to 1.78 meters) in height with an average human female being approximately 5-4 in height (1.63 meters) in height.

How tall is an average Klingon? I assume they'd be taller than humans...


CuttingEdge100

 

[JNG]

Yes, an average male in the USA might be as high as 5'9'' or 5'10'', but I feel certain the world average is somewhat lower.

I am not sure that assumption about Klingons is on the money, as we've mainly seen people who are in military professions and so forth; they might be bigger or more built-up than the average Klingon, and it is somewhat hard to judge. The deck heights on their ships do not seem to be a whole lot higher than those of the NX-01.

But even if the average Klingon is bigger than the average human, I don't think it is by much. Maybe 10 to 15 percent?

 

[Timo]

We have to note that all the actors portraying Klingon warriors wear thick soles on their boots. Is that "for real", though? Perhaps the dramatic intent instead is to portray people who have very long legs and wear thick armor on top of their feet, or perhaps have very thick feet. (We've seen Worf's bare feet, though, and they weren't all that alien.)

We might also argue that the Klingons that get assigned on their military starships are smaller than the regular stock, so that the military can put more of them per ship, or build smaller ships - the same reason short people are favored as fighter pilots, tank drivers or submariners in those militaries where said hardware is very cramped. Also, short people would be somewhat more gee-tolerant... Not that it would count much in "modern" Trek starship-operating organizations, but it might be a historical tradition to favor the gee-tolerant shorties in space navies.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[JNG]

^

That could be, but hand-to-hand combat seems to be so important to their social, military and even political structure that I bet raw size is still some kind of a factor who gets the plum assignments.

When we saw Council members and lawyers and people like that, there doesn't seem to have been a creative intent to make them noticeably different in height, build or anything like that from the soldiers we see more often.

 

[SonicRanger]

Well, there's always this guy:

http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s7/7x05/gambitparttwo193.jpg
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s7/7x05/gambitparttwo246.jpg
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s7/7x05/gambitparttwo195.jpg

 

[jamestyler]

We have to note that all the actors portraying Klingon warriors wear thick soles on their boots. Is that "for real", though? Perhaps the dramatic intent instead is to portray people who have very long legs and wear thick armor on top of their feet, or perhaps have very thick feet. (We've seen Worf's bare feet, though, and they weren't all that alien.)

It's Klingon New Rocks - further proof that they're the metal heads of the galaxy

 

[CuttingEdge100]

How thick are the soles the actors typically wear?