It’s how Kirby drew him.... Science Muscle Guy ( Or Neal Degrasse Tyson in college)

A star for you sir.

Yeah... Having lived through those days, the Angela Davis superfros, leather jackets and Black Power fists would be outdated, by ‘79.... The Disco Years...

Came here for The defensiveness and jerking of knees... not disappointed....

How will they make things future-future since Discovery already looks that way.  Michael Dorn’s inevitable appearance could be triggering though.

Okay, so basically you didn’t actually see the wedding or get the interplay between Black/Anglo cultures on full display. The shocked/bewildered/hostile reactions from pasty faced Royals and guests to Bishop Michael Curry’s sermon was comedy gold; better than what’s served here.

People forget that Blazing Saddles was co-written by Richard Pryor as a starring vehicle.... Which would have been the first pairing of Pryor and Gene Wilder... sigh ....

The reaction to this.... will be interesting.... hopefully he won’t be committing career suicide...

(Pushes up glasses) The artist name was Alex Toth. He was behind most of the HB Saturday Morning output (Space Ghost, Herculoids, etc.) You may be confusing the name with Andre De Toth(?) .... The one eyed director of the 1950s 3D horror flick “House of Wax”?

NBC Saturday Morning TV. ‘67-’68.

For those same thirty years, I thought his last name had a extra ‘A’ added to it.

ANTONIO FARAGAS!!!

Star Wars didn’t change its visual aesthetics did it? And as far as reboots go, Batman is the least fucked with overall in terms of details (I’m talking Post Crisis reboots, not Silver Age).

Aw, Did I touch you in a wrong place? Let me touch you again.

All previous changes were still incorporated into a general continuity, which is how they become “true”. Essentially, in order for Discovery changes to stick, they need to follow through on subsequent series.... which may or may not happen. Pardon my skepticism, but we just went through similar changes over at DC…

*Shrug* Still not a retcon, since it doesn’t present itself as an origin story. That’s why they could fold the TOS look as still part of continuity and explain the differences with a handwave. As for TMP novelization.... the novels have never been considered canon anyway right? And frankly, his descriptions of life on…

I was contrasting the racial archetypes of two different eras. The Mongol look given the TOS Klingons was deliberate. Pull out your dusty copies of The Making of Star Trek and World of Star Trek if you don’t believe me. The portrayals by individual actors might bring dignity to their roles.... But really no different…

TOS look was more based on Ming the Merciless, “Mongols”.... racial othering of a different kind. Disco’s skin tones range from deep black/blue to albinism .... And yeah deeply melinated black peoples can have a “bluish” tint to them as well as albino. The facial prosthetics widen the nose and lips of the actors.....…

Course I could say, “One Step Forward Two Steps Back” in Discovery ‘s case. Better representation of women, but doubling down on the racial othering of Klingons in virtual blackface is not a good look.

You mean like TNG, DS9 and VOY didn’t do for the better part of the 80s and 90s?