thought of the day 2009 09 19 - nerd Klingons (I'm in Berlin for work so I'm putting up a weeks worth in one shot). Back from Germany on 9/19

How come in Star Trek, every time you see a Klingon, he's dark skinned, looks scary as fuck and might try to eat you alive? You can't tell me they kill all the nerds. No society with interstellar travel could have evolved if they killed off all the nerdy Steve Urkel type Klingons. At some point some, pasty skinned fucking dweeb Klingon must have been walking around with a pocket protector trying to calculate the precise proper angular curve of a bat'leth (and no, I did not have to Google that spelling). There must have been some Klingon nerd at some point who refused to get a tan, walked around in pants pulled up past whatever Klingon's have for belly buttons, had some stash of girl on girl porn that he had to hide from his parents because he lived in their basement. Why have I never seen this Klingon? Why have I never seen the Chinese Klingon?

I mean hell, you know the humans in Star Trek have expanded that Chinatown franchise into deep space. If planet Vulcan didn't have at least a couple of big Chinatown's by the time Kirk was around I would be fucking surprised. So why no equivalent Klingon's who are really short, talk in bad accents and try to sell you plastic junk and cookware or other stuff at very reasonable prices.

Why no Jewish Klingon? I think a Klingon in a yarmulke would look pretty damn interesting. I don't have a long rambling few sentences for that, I just want you to picture Khan with a yarmulke. That's right, you're stuck with a mental picture of Ricardo fucking Montalban with a skullcap.