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Klingon Blood Color?

orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
edited August 2013 in The Art of Star Trek Online
Granted, the only instance Klingon blood is actually purple is in Star Trek VI, but I think that it's mainly because the directors are too used to human blood. I suggest that since STO is a game and we can have any color blood, we should firmly establish Klingon blood to be purple.

Though big things would have to change, namely J'mpok's scar...

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What does everyone else think?

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  • UnknownUnknown
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  • robeasomrobeasom Member Posts: 1,911 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    I agree Canon shows it is a lilac purple colour so klingons scar colour should be changed but that unfortunately will never happen
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  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,162 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    it was red several times during Ds9
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  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    The reason for the change in colour to...strawberry yogurt was due to the rating for ages of 12/13 (I think depending on country).
    Had they used blood that actually looked too much like human blood...you know bubbling out of corpses and floating around in zero-g...the movie probably would haven gotten an age 15/15 rating hurting ticket sales.
    On the shows it was consistently very human-looking blood like in "Redemption" pt.1 and "Way of the Warrior".
    In fact ST6 was the only instance of pink blood so my guess is it's a majority overrides the single instance thing.
  • jacqueline3752jacqueline3752 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    just hard to find a pure blooded klingon, too much swapping chromosome over the centuries
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  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    crashdragon wrote: »
    A Klingon get's his arm shot off, and that's a 12/13 year old rating? Even if its strawberry yogurt?

    Then again here in Australia, the ratings are screwed up. The TNG episode where a scientist has to commit suicide at a certain age so he won't be a burden on his family is rated G for General Exhibition. As in all age groups.

    =/

    The German DVD has a nice green 12 on it while the US version has just a PG on it.
    So that's appearently all it takes: turn the blood pink and you're on the safe side.

    "Phantom Menace" got an age 6 rating over here in Germany and a PG in the US.
    A movie where the bad guy got sliced in half. Granted without any blood but nontheless pretty mean IMO.

    Sometimes I wonder what the people rating this stuff were thinking myself.
    I still have VHS tapes of the Star Wars Original Trilogy in a cupboard somewhere.
    They're from the time when the movies had been remastered but without the...pointless additions.
    "A New Hope" and "Return of the Jedi" were rated for ages 12 while "Empire Strikes Back" was rated 6. Sand people and Teddy bears give you an age rating of 12 while cutting your main character's hand off gets you a 6.
  • stofskstofsk Member Posts: 1,744 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    misterde3 wrote: »
    The German DVD has a nice green 12 on it while the US version has just a PG on it.
    So that's appearently all it takes: turn the blood pink and you're on the safe side.

    "Phantom Menace" got an age 6 rating over here in Germany and a PG in the US.
    A movie where the bad guy got sliced in half. Granted without any blood but nontheless pretty mean IMO.
    Strictly speaking, Maul didn't even die. :)
    Sometimes I wonder what the people rating this stuff were thinking myself.
    I still have VHS tapes of the Star Wars Original Trilogy in a cupboard somewhere.
    They're from the time when the movies had been remastered but without the...pointless additions.
    "A New Hope" and "Return of the Jedi" were rated for ages 12 while "Empire Strikes Back" was rated 6. Sand people and Teddy bears give you an age rating of 12 while cutting your main character's hand off gets you a 6.
    That's hilarious :)
  • robertusorobertuso Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    I'm pretty sure the only reason why it was purple in that movie was for that one scene at the end when the klingon assassin gets killed and has red blood giving away that he was really human.
  • vengefuldjinnvengefuldjinn Member Posts: 1,521 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    thay8472 wrote: »
    it was red several times during Ds9

    It was red in first contact, when Worf beamed over to the Enterprise after the Defiant was abandoned. When Riker had his fun with the remark about Worf remembering how to fire phasers.
    There was red blood on Worf's face, unless it was someone else's, (which would be really gross...)
    http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101021193325/memoryalpha/en/images/d/d2/Worf_2373.jpg

    I almost missed that little detail, fortunately, I upgraded to blueray for my HD :D
    crashdragon wrote: »
    When Lursa is struck by Dr.Soron ( or Zoron? ) in Generations, she clearly has red blood on her lip and teeth.

    Again you see it when she wipes some on his lip. Yuck. No, it;s not from his hand and palm, you see it with no cut or blood.

    Every writer/director has they own ideas on what's canon and what's not. Same with games.

    I forgot about that one !
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  • stofskstofsk Member Posts: 1,744 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    TUC is literally the odd man out when it comes to Klingons having pink blood.
  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    robertuso wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure the only reason why it was purple in that movie was for that one scene at the end when the klingon assassin gets killed and has red blood giving away that he was really human.
    Yeah, but that reason doesn't exactly provide an in-universe explanation...
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  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    robertuso wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure the only reason why it was purple in that movie was for that one scene at the end when the klingon assassin gets killed and has red blood giving away that he was really human.

    Nope. That scene was not even IN the theatrical cut, only the video and DVD versions;)

    The reason were the scenes on the Klingon cruiser with people getting blown to pieces.
    You can't do that in a PG movie and show red blood.
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  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    orangeitis wrote: »
    Yeah, but that reason doesn't exactly provide an in-universe explanation...

    Assuming you need one for this...well one that has been tossed around is that Klingon blood has a different colour in zero-g.
    Doesn't really make sense IMO because then it should've changed back by the time gravity was restored...unless by then it had already congealed in combination with the oxygen to a point where it couldn't revert to its natural colour.

    Another I just came up with is that at that time of the 6th movie the artificial atmosphere in Klingons ships was different from the one on the homeworld and that there was something in the atmosphere that caused the change in colour.
    We know divers use an airmix different from what we usually breathe on the surface, maybe this is similar.
    But possibly this airmix was no longer in use by time of Star Trek 7, explaining why B'etor's blood had looked red.

    Possibly Colonel Worf was still able to tell Col West's blood apart from Klingon blood not because of colour but because of constency he did not say "this is not Klingon blood" until after he'd touched it.

    I believe this explanation should cover the entire mess at least somewhat.
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  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    I bet it's one of those things Klingons don't like to talk about, like the cranial ridges (and lack of them). :P
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