Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, produced at the same time as the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, suggested that it wasn’t necessary for the Federation and the Klingon Empires to be mortal enemies.
Klingons wound up being the focus of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and were a significant presence in each of the films that followed. To a large extent, this shift took place during the movie era. Somewhere between The Turnabout Intruder and Encounter at Farpoint, the Klingons went from generic communist stand-ins to a fully-formed alien culture with a wealth of ritual and tradition. However, there was another interesting change. Part of the changes were physical – most obviously, advances in make-up allowed Klingon characters to be shown with their now-iconic forehead ridges. The Klingons changed rather dramatically, between the classic Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation. We’ll be doing one of these every week day. We’ll be supplementing our coverage of the movies with tie-ins around (and related to) the films.
Movie reviews are every Tuesday and Thursday. This August, to celebrate the upcoming release of Star Trek: Into Darkness on DVD and blu ray, we’re taking a look at the Star Trek movies featuring the original cast.
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