(In which the term is used, but it’s unclear to which ships it referred). Fandom had long held that the Klingon ships of TOS and TAS were ‘D7 class’ based on an anecdote told by Roddenberry in his 1968 book The Making of Star Trek. He didn’t even think that the physical differences between the film and TV enterprises were necessarily indicative of any fictional ‘truth’.īut this is the opposite to the approach mentioned above, and favoured by a large chunk of Star Trek fandom. His argument was that production details – such as the specifics of makeup and prop design – were not indicative of ‘in-universe’ fact. This statement was of a piece with his later claim that the Klingons in TOS and TAS had always looked like the more elaborately made up ones seen in The Motion Picture and TNG, or they would have done had enough money been available in 1968/9. Now, that reference to ‘new’ there is odd, because by his own account Roddenberry intended, at the time the film was made, for K’t’inga ships to be the same kind of Klingon ships seen in three episodes of the third season of the original Star Trek and four episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series. Their name comes from Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s (recently reprinted) novelisation of the film, where they are described by James Kirk as “big, dangerous looking – undoubtedly their new K’t’inga-class heavy cruisers which some Admiralty tacticians feared might prove faster and more powerful than Starfleet’s First Line Constitution-Class starships”. The three ships that V’Ger destroys are Klingon ships, but they are not named onscreen, or in any of their subsequent appearances. So often in Star Trek things are seen and not named, or named and not seen, and fans do the work themselves to tie these things together into a satisfying whole, and that’s the case here. As with a lot of accepted Star Trek continuity, there is a bit of ambiguity here. Or did they? It’s not quite as simple as that. K’t’inga Class Klingon starships first appeared almost exactly 40 years ago, in the brilliant opening scene of the still hugely underappreciated Star Trek The Motion Picture.
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