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Fridge Brilliance

• Tower of Babel indicates that Klingon High Command is ships crewed entirely by smooth-foreheaded augment virus sufferers on border patrol to get them out of the way because they're an embarrassment. This is clearly intended to explain why TOS Klingons are all smooth-foreheaded; they're the ones on the Federation border. The Fridge Brilliance moment is that it also explains why TOS Klingons don't talk about honour much; they've already lost it just by having the plague (by this time, most of them would have been born with it, and never had Klingon honour, or any hope of getting it). In DS9, Kang, Kor and Koloth have become more concerned with the honour of their houses now that the plague has been cured.