Klingon Blood

[darkshadow0001]

I was watching "The House of Quark" last night and noticed something. Continuity was violated! (oh no! ) At least, I think it has been. When Quark had that bar-fight with the drunken-Klingon and killed him, I could of sworn the blood that came out of the Klingon was red, and human-like; not like it was in Star Trek VI:TUC (Pink, or light-purpelish or whatever). If this is true I'm hurt

 

[shapeshifter]

Klingon blood was purple in TUC to serve the story, a way was needed to distinguish disguised assassins from the real thing.

 

[Daneel]

I heard that the MPAA told the filmmakers they had to make the blood pinkish-purple in TUC in order to keep the film's PG rating. Thus, we ended up with Klingon blood that looked like Pepto-Bismol. Every other instance in Trek where Klingon blood has been seen showed it as red.

It might muck up continuity a bit, but there you go. Personally, I don't know why they didn't keep it as pinkish-purple, just for the sake of consistency (especially after so much Klingon blood was visible in TUC).

 

[votd]

Especially in Generations when Soran hits B'etor (sp?), maybe something to do with the dead Romulan shown earlier covered in green blood, trying to avoid an Alien Blood Rainbow; I agree Klingon blood should have remained pink.

 

[steevo]

I always thought it would have looked silly for General Martok to bleed pink blood in "Way Of The Warrior" when he cut himself on the hand to prove he wasn't a changeling.

 

[Jono]

Maybe it can to rigged into the Augment virus the removed the Klingons foreheads, that it also gave them super pink funky disco blood.

 

[jgdst]

Maybe it can to rigged into the Augment virus the removed the Klingons foreheads, that it also gave them super pink funky disco blood.

EXACTLY!

Any inconsistencies with the Klingons that isn't resolved by dialogue, I just write up to the Augment virus.

It works for me

 

[Astraea]

Or just take the Trials and Tribble-ations way out:

"Mr. Worf, what is it with the funky pink disco blood?"
"We do not discuss it with outsiders."

 

[backstept]

maybe whoever was doing the color correction in post had an incorrectly calibrated monitor

 

[votd]

Maybe 23rd century lights interacted with a chemical in the blood to give it that disco feel; by the 24th century lights had been updated to make Klingons seem more macho and less macho man.

 

[Jono]

Maybe 23rd century lights interacted with a chemical in the blood to give it that disco feel; by the 24th century lights had been updated to make Klingons seem more macho and less macho man.

Now all I can picture is Klingons in the transporter room preparing to board another ship and psyching up with Macho Man pumping through the ship's speakers.

 

[Timo]

Klingon blood had been dark red before ST6, and always was dark red after ST6. Indeed, in the originally aired theatrical version of ST6, we could easily argue that Klingon blood was dark red there, too - unless hit by a specific type of phaser beam, one that was only used in that particular assassination!

Of course, the longer version of the movie makes it a plot point that it is possible to tell human blood apart from Klingon blood simply by sight (when Admiral Cornell-West is shot by Scotty and falls through the window). But we could squirm out of that, too, by saying that the Klingon who identified the blood as non-Klingon was doing it by smell, not by color analysis...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Astraea]

Maybe 23rd century lights interacted with a chemical in the blood to give it that disco feel; by the 24th century lights had been updated to make Klingons seem more macho and less macho man.

Now all I can picture is Klingons in the transporter room preparing to board another ship and psyching up with Macho Man pumping through the ship's speakers.

Got a mental picture of this...

(Klingons' secret musical tastes: opera, more opera, and the Village People.)

 

[Jono]

^ They should do a special edition of STVI and swap out Shakespeare for the Village People.

Chang: You have not heard the Village People until you have heard it in the original Klingon. <spouts Klingonese as all Klingons on at the table do the arm gestures for YMCA>

 

[Timofnine]

I think that we need a whole episode or movie to explain the transformation of Klingons from pink blooded to red blooded!

 

[Hober Mallow]

I was watching "The House of Quark" last night and noticed something. Continuity was violated! (oh no! ) At least, I think it has been. When Quark had that bar-fight with the drunken-Klingon and killed him, I could of sworn the blood that came out of the Klingon was red, and human-like; not like it was in Star Trek VI:TUC (Pink, or light-purpelish or whatever). If this is true I'm hurt

Klingon blood was red in TOS. Christopher Lloyd's blood was red in Star Trek III. Worf's blood was red in TNG.

Star Trek VI violated continuity with pink blood.