Bryan Fuller posted this on Instagram as a birthday greeting to Laurence Fishburne, back on July 30.
So apparently Fuller had intended to carry over the Hannibal cast into Discovery in various parts — and this was how he’d imagined Fishburne in Klingon prosthetics. It also suggests that the much maligned Disco Klingon designs were decided upon after Fuller left as (preliminary) show runner.
ETA: Here is a rundown of the casting plans he had in mind, originally revealed on the D-con chamber podcast. I would have watched Gillian Anderson as a starship captain.
I just wish his capacity to deliver on time and on-budget was equal to his capacity for wishcasting and buck-passing.
Whatever do you mean, this was only released 10 years after the fact (and 2 yrs after the show had run its course well beyond his involvement) 😄
I had lots of issues with dsc, but the Klingon design wasn’t one. Did people not like those?
I don’t care for the elongated craniums and prefer the season two revision, but for the most part I think it’s a good, somewhat exaggerated design.
And their costuming was bloody fantastic.
“Not respecting history” was a frequent talking point among the Twitter and Reddit accounts that also just-so-happened to complain about “wokeness” around the time DSC was released.
Obviously if someone genuinely gave a rats ass about visual continuity they would be upset by TMP and TNG Klingons too, but you rarely see that.
I did like the DSC Klingons as aired, and if people had the patience required for things to play out, they could have waited for future writers to make up an elegant answer like the augment virus in ENT 🙂
I loved the way they were presented, and I immediately felt like the richness of the added details (like the differences between the great houses) made it the new “definitive” depiction of Klingon culture, just like how DS9 really added a lot to the Ferengi. I also honestly don’t even feel that visually they were presented as radically different enough to justify an augment-virus-style retcon (but I wouldn’t have complained)!
This right here. When I first saw them I also just kind of assumed that in that period, baldness was probably just more fashionable or something.
Trekkies: “Why is Sisko bald but M’Benga is not??”
what was wrong with the tng klingons?
Ah well. People would’ve complained about that design as well. Probably also if they had just continued with the Worf-like looking ones. They look the same as before? No innovation? Yawn.
We’re hard to please. Remain Klingon!
K’LawRence would have been interesting. Who’s the best actor to play a Klingon that hasn’t been cast before?
Honestly? Also Gillian Anderson 🤣
I haven’t met a single person who disliked the look of the DSC Klingons and wasn’t also a chronic complainer in general.
Also the answer to your question is clearly Robert De Niro.
Kick ass character. Not a Klingon.
Not unless you’re willing to similarly transform humans to their far future incarnation.
“Far future”? This was supposed to be for Discovery, which is initially set around 130 years from now. How much visible evolution do you imagine would take place in such a short timespan?
Good catch… Somehow got it in my mind this was for Academy.
It would actually be a pretty good look for a Klingon/Jem’Hadar hybrid like Lura Thok, so it’s not an unreasonable leap to have made.
