{"id":12617,"date":"2018-11-14T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T22:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=12617"},"modified":"2019-12-24T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:52:18","slug":"on-klingon-coiffures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/11\/14\/on-klingon-coiffures\/","title":{"rendered":"On Klingon Coiffures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2375,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=x6eoD9rQHL4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260209170528\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=x6eoD9rQHL4&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 10:30:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 10:30:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2376,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/p\\\/BqK9g7hFkva\\\/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&amp;igshid=1toc7ocs7tree&amp;fbclid=IwAR367ozX56whPluUj8oYb_uSwgMDas0g4_6ZdxIsAjNZzrW6ACCgNNHrbdg&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/accounts\\\/login\\\/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fp%2FBqK9g7hFkva%2F%3Futm_source%3Dig_share_sheet&amp;is_from_rle&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Some semi-serious musing about Discovery season two:<\/p>\n<p>Two things that we know at this point (not the only two things, just two things germane to this): season two starts <em>immediately<\/em> following season one, and every Klingon we&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x6eoD9rQHL4\">in the trailer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BqK9g7hFkva\/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&amp;igshid=1toc7ocs7tree&amp;fbclid=IwAR367ozX56whPluUj8oYb_uSwgMDas0g4_6ZdxIsAjNZzrW6ACCgNNHrbdg\">including L&#8217;Rell<\/a>, now have their traditional (well, from TNG onward) long, flowing locks.<\/p>\n<p>Which tells me one of three things: there&#8217;s a fairly substantial time jump sometime during season two, Klingon hair grows <em>extremely<\/em> quickly, or the Discovery producers were so intent on satisfying this particular aspect of fanwank that they didn&#8217;t think about that aspect.<\/p>\n<p>Or, I suppose, the Klingon market for hair weaves suddenly exploded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some semi-serious musing about Discovery season two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[3857,1665,875,4097],"class_list":["post-12617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-dis","tag-discovery","tag-klingons","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}