I thought it might be fun to try to note the continuity tie-ins now that we finally have new Star Trek on TV (who could have imagined?)
So I rewatched the premiere this afternoon, took some notes, and then spent an unhealthy amount of time on Memory Alpha trying to cross-reference stuff. In this post: Klingons!
Notes from the premiere, episodes 101 and 102....
We meet the Klingon High Council! The High Council was first mentioned way back in TOS, in the classic episode "The Trouble With Tribbles." In their holographic appearance on T'Kuvma's ship, there appear to be about six of them--which is more-or-less consistent with the number of Councillors that we later saw depicted in the High Council's appearances in TNG and DS9.
Appearing on this incarnation of the High Council are a Klingon by the name of Kol, and representatives of the Houses of D'Ghor and Mo'Kai (among the others who are not named yet).
Kol, according to the actor playing him is a member of the House of Kor. Kor is a Klingon who appeared first in TOS's "Errand of Mercy," reappearing in TAS's "The Time Trap," and then finally appearing in three episodes of DS9, going on various quests with Dax.
The House of D'Ghor appeared in the Quark-centric DS9 episode "The House of Quark." D'Ghor (of the DS9 era) is the Klingon who tried to take over Grilka's House by financial chicanery, and who was foiled by Quark's financial skills.
House Mo'Kai is a slightly more obscure reference. Mo'Kai was the House that Klingon-ized Janeway allegedly belonged to, when the Hirogens took over Voyager and had her altered to look like a Klingon in the feature-length episode "The Killing Game."
T'Kuvma himself is a fanatical worshipper/follower of Kahless the Unforgettable, whom we know very well is essentially the founder of Klingon civilization and regarded as a holy icon. A version of Kahless appeared in TOS's "The Savage Curtain," and then later appeared (as a clone) in TNG's "Rightful Heir."
The Klingon homeworld is named here as Qo'noS, consistent with ENT, TNG, DS9, and VOY.
When Burnham is in the EVA suit and kills the Torchbearer on the hull of the Klingon ship, there's a blink-and-you-miss-it shot where blood sprays out of him--pink blood. This is, of course, a reference to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
When the dead Torchbearer is launched from T'Kuvma's ship over to the tomb ship, all the Klingons in the chamber do the 'death howl' that was introduced in the TNG Season 1 episode "Heart of Glory"
During the funeral ceremony, T'Kuvma mentions that the dead Torchbearer will be welcomed into the Black Fleet. While this has not been mentioned in canon before, it was a name and concept introduced in a 1984 TOS novel as being part of the Klingon afterlife--this invention predating the real-world inception of Sto-Vo-Kor. Sto-Vo-Kor, the Klingon afterlife, is also mentioned in these episodes, thereby canonizing the Black Fleet concept and adding it to the official lore.
Rejac, the dead Torchbearer, is another name with its origins in licensed (non-canon) media. One of the modules for the Star Trek RPG refers to "Line Rejac" as a Klingon family.
When T'Kuvma's ship first decloaks, the Shenzhou crew don't understand what they're seeing, they think it has somehow come out of warp without their detecting a warp signature. This is consistent with Starfleet having no idea what cloaking is in the TOS era. Along the same lines: T'Kuvma's new Torchbearer Voq tells the High Council that only he has the ability to make his ships invisible, which also tracks with the Klingons of TOS, who don't have cloaking tech until the movies.
It's stated in dialogue that almost no-one has seen a Klingon "in a hundred years," meaning that there has been virtually zero contact between Earth and the Klingons since the time of Enterprise.
During Burnham's chat with Sarek, he tells her that first contact between the Vulcans and the Klingons happened 240 years ago. Given that we know this episode is set in 2256, that means that this encounter would have been in 2016 - most likely just a reference to when they were filming. But there's more to this as well; they say that the encounter happened at H'atoria. H'atoria was the name of the Klingon colony where Worf was governor in the alternate future timeline we saw in TNG's finale, "All Good Things..."
At one point, it's stated that the last time the Empire and the Federation fought was at Donatu V. Donatu V was first mentioned in TOS's "The Trouble With Tribbles" as the site of a confrontation between the Klingons and the Federation. It was also name-dropped in the TNG episode "Inheritance" as the location of a spaceport.
Toward the end of the episode, when Burnham and Georgiu board T'Kuvma's ship, they get into a fight. T'Kuvma attacks the captain with a weapon that is not a bat'leth, but rather it bears more than a passing resemblence to a mek'leth, which is that short-sword weapon that Worf came to prefer later in TNG and in DS9 (the thing he used to hack off the Borg's arm when on the hull of the Enterprise in First Contact).
And finally...eagle-eared fans may have noticed that the alarm chime that's played on the bridge of T'Kuvma's ship has been played before...on various Klingon ships as an alarm chime, in TOS movies, in TNG, in DS9, and so on.
More later!
So I rewatched the premiere this afternoon, took some notes, and then spent an unhealthy amount of time on Memory Alpha trying to cross-reference stuff. In this post: Klingons!
Notes from the premiere, episodes 101 and 102....
We meet the Klingon High Council! The High Council was first mentioned way back in TOS, in the classic episode "The Trouble With Tribbles." In their holographic appearance on T'Kuvma's ship, there appear to be about six of them--which is more-or-less consistent with the number of Councillors that we later saw depicted in the High Council's appearances in TNG and DS9.
Appearing on this incarnation of the High Council are a Klingon by the name of Kol, and representatives of the Houses of D'Ghor and Mo'Kai (among the others who are not named yet).
Kol, according to the actor playing him is a member of the House of Kor. Kor is a Klingon who appeared first in TOS's "Errand of Mercy," reappearing in TAS's "The Time Trap," and then finally appearing in three episodes of DS9, going on various quests with Dax.
The House of D'Ghor appeared in the Quark-centric DS9 episode "The House of Quark." D'Ghor (of the DS9 era) is the Klingon who tried to take over Grilka's House by financial chicanery, and who was foiled by Quark's financial skills.
House Mo'Kai is a slightly more obscure reference. Mo'Kai was the House that Klingon-ized Janeway allegedly belonged to, when the Hirogens took over Voyager and had her altered to look like a Klingon in the feature-length episode "The Killing Game."
T'Kuvma himself is a fanatical worshipper/follower of Kahless the Unforgettable, whom we know very well is essentially the founder of Klingon civilization and regarded as a holy icon. A version of Kahless appeared in TOS's "The Savage Curtain," and then later appeared (as a clone) in TNG's "Rightful Heir."
The Klingon homeworld is named here as Qo'noS, consistent with ENT, TNG, DS9, and VOY.
When Burnham is in the EVA suit and kills the Torchbearer on the hull of the Klingon ship, there's a blink-and-you-miss-it shot where blood sprays out of him--pink blood. This is, of course, a reference to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
When the dead Torchbearer is launched from T'Kuvma's ship over to the tomb ship, all the Klingons in the chamber do the 'death howl' that was introduced in the TNG Season 1 episode "Heart of Glory"
During the funeral ceremony, T'Kuvma mentions that the dead Torchbearer will be welcomed into the Black Fleet. While this has not been mentioned in canon before, it was a name and concept introduced in a 1984 TOS novel as being part of the Klingon afterlife--this invention predating the real-world inception of Sto-Vo-Kor. Sto-Vo-Kor, the Klingon afterlife, is also mentioned in these episodes, thereby canonizing the Black Fleet concept and adding it to the official lore.
Rejac, the dead Torchbearer, is another name with its origins in licensed (non-canon) media. One of the modules for the Star Trek RPG refers to "Line Rejac" as a Klingon family.
When T'Kuvma's ship first decloaks, the Shenzhou crew don't understand what they're seeing, they think it has somehow come out of warp without their detecting a warp signature. This is consistent with Starfleet having no idea what cloaking is in the TOS era. Along the same lines: T'Kuvma's new Torchbearer Voq tells the High Council that only he has the ability to make his ships invisible, which also tracks with the Klingons of TOS, who don't have cloaking tech until the movies.
It's stated in dialogue that almost no-one has seen a Klingon "in a hundred years," meaning that there has been virtually zero contact between Earth and the Klingons since the time of Enterprise.
During Burnham's chat with Sarek, he tells her that first contact between the Vulcans and the Klingons happened 240 years ago. Given that we know this episode is set in 2256, that means that this encounter would have been in 2016 - most likely just a reference to when they were filming. But there's more to this as well; they say that the encounter happened at H'atoria. H'atoria was the name of the Klingon colony where Worf was governor in the alternate future timeline we saw in TNG's finale, "All Good Things..."
At one point, it's stated that the last time the Empire and the Federation fought was at Donatu V. Donatu V was first mentioned in TOS's "The Trouble With Tribbles" as the site of a confrontation between the Klingons and the Federation. It was also name-dropped in the TNG episode "Inheritance" as the location of a spaceport.
Toward the end of the episode, when Burnham and Georgiu board T'Kuvma's ship, they get into a fight. T'Kuvma attacks the captain with a weapon that is not a bat'leth, but rather it bears more than a passing resemblence to a mek'leth, which is that short-sword weapon that Worf came to prefer later in TNG and in DS9 (the thing he used to hack off the Borg's arm when on the hull of the Enterprise in First Contact).
And finally...eagle-eared fans may have noticed that the alarm chime that's played on the bridge of T'Kuvma's ship has been played before...on various Klingon ships as an alarm chime, in TOS movies, in TNG, in DS9, and so on.
More later!
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