Klingon Court design for Enterprise that was not used. The pyramid shapes represent the studs on armor, and the fires the flames of damnation. In ancient times, Klingon warriors found guilty of cowardice were actually thrown into the grisly brazier. The flames consumed tens of thousands of judged captors from more wars than can be remembered. The sunken areas were used for arena based judgment. They could be filled with water, or predatory carnivores to make things more interesting.
Doug, That is sweet! Thanks for the post!
Klingon courthouses would have fire-escape stairs like any other sensible culture’s judicial buildings, I suspect. In this case, judging by the structure of the building, one might be inclined to think the stairs took spiral form.
Kind of reminiscent of the Khitomer Conference building in some ways.
Doug can you explain why these MAGNIFACENT render’s were not used? I take it BUDGET reason’s?
Here’s the Narendra III surface that was used in the end:
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/c/cf/NarendraIII2152.jpg
It’s almost Assyrian in layout & lines. Uncanny.
That’s pretty cool. It could also work as a Cardassian city, with the pyramids and all. I’m saying that because I quite like the Mongolian/Himalaya influences of the final product, nicely echoing the TOS “Eastern Warrior” influences.
So tell me what was the major earth influence to create the Klingons. I always assumed Russian, particularly because of Star Trek VI (end of cold war vs. end of Klingon life) but then i read elsewhere there was Japanese influence. In my opinion, I see both. I always considered the Klingon architecture to be rather spartan, but then again, the same could be said about the Romulans too.
Interesting comparison to the Khitomer Conference Building there…
Jim: I think it started out with a mix of Russian and Mongolian – the Klingons of Kirk’s time always seemed to have a visual riff on the Steppes in what we’ve been trained to “see” as Temujin’s age. The vibes from the Nihongo/Japanese warrior disciplines came in later.
*sits back and awaits contrary arguments and evidence to come…*
“Klingon justice is a unique point of view, Mr. President.”
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
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