• @Church - I was referring very specifically to the use of the Rising Sun in the clip... and given that Roddenberry was about as subtle as an axe, he stereotyped the Klingons as Asians anyway. Don't get your panties in a bunch.

• If they fight the Klingons, I kinda hope they call the D7's Klingon Battle Cruisers again, not Warbirds (though that would work for the Bird of Prey)

• Makes me want to be a Klingon. Seems like they've got self-limiting population technology down-pat.

• 'oH chen jIH neH Daq Sop qagh DaH

• Those really seem more like Cardassians to me. For two reasons: 1.) they are pasty white, and 2. they do not instantly bore the fugk out of me.

• I'm hoping for tribbles. Tribbles that eat people.

• For the love of God, please don't let them try to redo "The Wrath of Khan." Let them go someplace we've never seen, and take a different path. The whole point of doing an alternate reality was so they could free themselves of the pressures placed upon them by rabid fandom. The stupidest thing they could possibly do is to throw themselves right back into the fire with a cheap version of the same shit.

• QAPLA'!!!

• My favorite comment on this: "Triumph of the Will in the original Klingon"

• &#64;Church Yeah, ridgy-headed Klingons, Movie-Era standing atop a TOS-Era ship doesn't make much sense--but Trek is notorious for fucking up its own chronology. My theory's mostly predicated on the fact that if this was for the sequel to the Abrams movie, they'd have used the <I>Enterprise</I> from the movie, for the purpose of "branding," if you will. I mean they spent a fuck-ton of money on the flick, it was apparently successful, so if they're working on a sequel and released a viral teaser, they'd most likely want it known that it was for a sequel, and not some fan's flash animation toon. Which is what the address in the toon leads to, a site that seems to be mostly based around the toon. http://www.tlhingan.org/

• &#64;TrapJaw But, shit-on-their-forehead-ridges. I don't know what to think anymore...

• Count me as being in the "This Isn't For The Next Trek Movie" camp. At 1:11 when the Klingons are victoriously raising the flag, standing atop the shattered remains of the Starfleet ship, it most decidedly a TOS <I>Constituion</I>-class ship, not that weird, <I>Star Trek: The Motion Picture</I>-inspired version that was seen in the JJ-Abrams movie. Flimsy evidence sure, but I'm going with it.

• "Also, eh.... I was fine with The Enterprise episode, it was a step towards moving into TOS area. A lot of people disliked Enterprise so discarded anything that came from it. Of course, maybe you just didn't like that explanation, and that's totallly cool too. IDIC." I didn't like the general idea that it needed to be explained. 1960s makeup and creature design differed from 1980s makeup and creature design. Good enough for me. The real explanation fell under the super-annoying Star Trek trope of Fun With DNA, which is as scientific as a wizard doing it.

• &#64; varrror "Also, the things in this video SCREAM Imperial Japanese propaganda video ..." Um, sure. Also Soviet propaganda. And Chinese. And Cuban. And North Korean. Yadda Yadda Yadda. Heck, even American. (The Brits used to have balls, back in the day.)

• Oh, for the curious, here's a sneak peek at what the Klingons were shaping up to be in the new Trek http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/exclusive-the-secrets-of-star-trek-part-i/ Also, eh.... I was fine with The Enterprise episode, it was a step towards moving into TOS area. A lot of people disliked Enterprise so discarded anything that came from it. Of course, maybe you just didn't like that explanation, and that's totallly cool too. IDIC.

• Also, the things in this video SCREAM Imperial Japanese propaganda video - they even have the bloody Rising Sun.

• Er, guys, I'm pretty sure JJ said that they had the possibility of Khan on the table but were not going to take the risk. Don't fucking worry about it. On the other hand, cool video. The new movie should definitely have Klingons in it, and just to fuck with the audience, make them of the TOS kind (without the foreheads).

• The Soviet-propaganda angle is definitely appropriate, and even if this isn't connected to the next Trek movie, it still looks good. The new franchise will need to include the Klingons at some point anyhow, so why not start thinking about it, forehead-crap or no?

• Bill Binder: well, that too... (the Constitution class Starship) but the Klingon battlecrusers struck me first. And while typing about them I forgot about the Constitution class Starship... that morning mix of pain killers and rum does wonders for the memory... what was I saying again?

• Of all the @#%&@!! things to reboot in the new Star Trek Universe (I say new Universe since the old Spock is now considered Spock "Prime"), why would you screw with Khan?! Klingons, Romulans - those are standard fare. But not Khan. Let's not take something that was done properly already and mess it all up.

• &#64;khaine LOL, I love that use cited the DR6 and the subtleties there as proof this was from old-school Trek and not the giant Constitution class Starship in the middle of the screen. Peace and long life friend.

• $%^#@ it is a DR6 or 7 - not a 9... my bad... I'll turn in my nerd card right away and re-apply soon.

• I understood some of the words, but I'm not fluent enough in Klingon to follow it all the way thru. I would also say they need to avoid Khan in the next movie. A good, old fashioned throw down with the Klingons would be fun to see. Hell, I'd rather see Trelane before Khan!

• I'd prefer Khan not be used in any New Classic Trek movies. Why? Because that character/actor combo came along only once, and you have no chance in hell of that boost of synergy happening again.

• It's definitely for the MMO, not the movie. I cant' wait to get a translated version to see what they're saying. I think the art style is rad. If they made a cartoon that looked like this, I would watch the hell out of it. As for your question, I totally agree that Khan should not appear in the sequels in any way. You can't do a Wrath of Khan story this early in their timeline. The whole story originally worked well because it was a revenge tale. Kirk had met Khan when he was young, marooned him on a planet for 20 years, and never cared to check back to see that the planet he'd left him on had become a wasteland. Khan hated Kirk with the passion of someone who'd been seething for revenge for decades. You can't really duplicate that with this new young crew. A hatred story like that takes years to develop. You can't get that pissed off at a guy you just met a few hours earlier. A cool war film with the Klingons as the main villains would be truly awesome. That's where this franchise needs to go, into new stories. Not old ones.

• Klingons would be the most logical choice for the next Trek film. They even appeared (with masks on) in a deleted scene from the first film.

• Not from new movie. After seeing the differences between Romulians new v original and hearing JJ & co talk they want to avoid the 'people w/ sh!t glued to their foreheads' aliens. Not to mention that I'm willing to bet the Klingon ships will look a lil different and those DR9s in the background are exactly out of classic trek (did I just get too nerdy for even this site?). As far as the next trek movie and known aliens. They can't ignore the aliens closest to earth. They will be the first ones to deal with. So Klingons will be one of the first big baddies out there. Khan would be cool to bring in but not a WoK re-hash because Kirk hasn't pissed him off yet. However, having the botany bay discovered by someone would be cool. Just change the outcome - perhaps Khan bscomes an ally or better yet found by kingons or romulians and uses his 'superior intellect' to aid them in killing the humans and society on earth that froze him and shot him out to space.

• I hope they fight the klingons in Star Trek 2. But, I also wish they don't show them as complete monsters, and instead show some of the honor system that the klingons have. Speaking of Klingons, my favorite Klingon thing ever is from DS9 where Worf brawls with a Jem-hadar soldier for ten day straight. At the end, the Jem-hadar says, "I cannot beat this klingon, I can only kill him. And that no longer holds my interest."

• &#64;wilw posted this a few days ago on twitter and seamed to think it was for a new ST MMO coming out.

• MOTHERFUCKERS!!!! They can shove that propagandist bullshit up their anus! Evil Axis Powers: 1: North Korea 2: Iran 3: Those fucking washboard-foreheaded Klingon shitheads! Kirk was right. The only good Klingon is a dead Klingon!!

• Yeah, several folks have pointed out the website, and it isn't viral for the new movie because it uses ship designs etc from TOS rather than the movie. But as to the question, the phrase is "Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before", not "Timidly Go Back To Someplace Safe". Star Trek at it's best was about creating new. Next Gen spent its first season playing too close to what went before, and then they went and created The Borg. Kudos for trying something new. Please no Khan. We haven't had new Trek in a long time, and new Kirk and Spock in a long long time, so give us something new, not something we know with different colors. It's like asking should the next line of He-Man have new figures or another six repaints of Skeletor.

• "Hell I think it would be good if they explained how the Klingons had smooth forheads in teh show but come the movies (and TNG) they have the ridge heads." Enterprise did that. You don't want to know - it's as stupid as you can possibly imagine. And personally I hope none of the classic villains show up in the next Trek. Boldly go, dammit!

• there we go: http://trekmovie.com/2009/10/25/viral-video-leads-to-klingon-empire-website/

• The production value's great, so it's either a really dedicated fan or something professional. Whether or not it's viral for the movie (I doubt it is), there's no way the next one will leave out the Klingons.

• Why do people NEVER check the link io9 provided? That explanes evrything?

• The MMO idea makes is logical. But you kn ow I would like some new territory for the movies rather then just rehashes. Hell I think it would be good if they explained how the Klingons had smooth forheads in teh show but come the movies (and TNG) they have the ridge heads. Maybe Spock can f up that plant too.

• It's definitely a riff on Communist propaganda films. But somebody definitely needs to translate that thing. Chances that someone will have translated it and we'll have the website cracked by closing time this afternoon? 100%.

• &#64;commandsheep The website is: http://www.tlhingan.org/ It's def a viral campaign... tho my gut tells me that it's probably a star trek DVD cartoon rather than JJ's Star Trek 2. in Star Trek 1 the klingons weren't shown but they were already mentioned in the simulation test kirk cheated in at the start. Probably the klingon/starfleet war was already going on by then. The propaganda thus seems out of place for star trek 2.

• This makes more sense as a viral for the Star Trek MMORPG.

• Did anyone else find that strangely unsettling? No? Just me? Alright then...

• Wow, that's damn good for a "A really fucking goofy Klingon cartoon my friends made." Fitting that it's an homage to Soviet-era propaganda.

• A couple of months ago I watched "Space Seed" and "Wrath of Kahn" back to back. It was fantastic, and the most I have ever enjoyed either Trek installment. WoK works too well on the relationship established in the TOS episode for an attempt at a do-over without some SERIOUS subplotting. Not to mention the revenge angle was already played up in the new Trek franchise. JJ needs to do us all a favor and stay as far away from WoK as possible.

• well, someone obviously needs to translate this. also, I bet that the text below the Klingon symbol towards the end is a URL. Who is fluent in Klingon?

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