What Klingons Could've Looked Like In STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

What Klingons Could've Looked Like In STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

Highly acclaimed concept artist, Neville Page, has posted his artistic contributions to J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness. They included alternate designs for the Klingons. Check it out!

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By nailbiter111 - Aug 27, 2013 04:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Star Trek
Source: Neville Page



JJ Abrams ("Mission: Impossible III") was kind enough to have me on board another Star Trek. It was not too dissimilar to the first experience, other than I was too busy to be cast as an Alien this time. Then again, I did go down with the ship in the previous one.

This first round of images are some of the development of the Klingons. This was a very important assignment for me because I knew how important it was to the fans of the franchise. It was a delicate balance of respecting the established looks from previous incarnations yet delivering something appropriate for JJ's film. - Neville Page



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When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organisation has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.


STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS - written by Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci and directed/produced by J.J. Abrams. Returning for the sequel are Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Zoë Saldana, and Anton Yelchin. They are joined by new cast members Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve and Peter Weller.
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BatmanHeisenberg
BatmanHeisenberg - 8/27/2013, 4:42 PM
I hated how they looked in the STID. But I loved the villain.
MrDonut
MrDonut - 8/27/2013, 4:44 PM
The designs they used were solid n the film was pretty cool n Cummberbatch too, just wish they cast someone foreign given who he was playing...
Zuriel
Zuriel - 8/27/2013, 4:51 PM
I wish I could just forget this movie ever happened.
ndwwrestler2
ndwwrestler2 - 8/27/2013, 4:58 PM
Loved this movie. I thought Klingons looked great, but some of these are better I will admit.
ndwwrestler2
ndwwrestler2 - 8/27/2013, 5:01 PM
@Zuriel Clicking on and commenting on an article on the movie isn't a good start.
Snakeofdoom
Snakeofdoom - 8/27/2013, 5:02 PM
Best movie of the summer by far. The haters are all probably MoS fanboys. Now THAT movie has plenty to bitch about, but whatever, to each his own...
Zuriel
Zuriel - 8/27/2013, 5:03 PM
@Godzillafart

The designs would be awesome for a complete Trek reboot or alternate universe. But they are also further evidence of JJ wanting to change things that shouldn't change in an alternate timeline.

I hope you all are ready to see an Ewok cast as Chewbacca in Episode VII.
RALaMothe
RALaMothe - 8/27/2013, 5:04 PM
These designs look so much better. They have a raw, bestial look about them. Would've given the Klingons a scarier, more intimidating look.
patriautism
patriautism - 8/27/2013, 5:05 PM
@Jollem And they're all just rip offs of "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" by Caspar David Friedrich
StabbyJoee
StabbyJoee - 8/27/2013, 5:20 PM
I do like the Mr.T looking one
nld3
nld3 - 8/27/2013, 5:21 PM
I'm so sick of piercings & face tattoo's.
Grayson7954
Grayson7954 - 8/27/2013, 5:37 PM
the movie version was way to smooth and airbrushed looking and had frickin piercing baby blue eye contacts, which was weird as [frick]
Brady1138
Brady1138 - 8/27/2013, 5:56 PM
So sick of haters...
astromerc
astromerc - 8/27/2013, 6:21 PM
The movie was fine, good way to continue the series.
TheSoulEater
TheSoulEater - 8/27/2013, 6:22 PM
So fricking what?

haters photo: HATERS.jpg
superpandaman
superpandaman - 8/27/2013, 6:39 PM
I'm on google chrome and these embedded YouTube videos just automatically plays when I load the pages. It's [frick]ing annoying - Any way to disable that?
Redmest
Redmest - 8/27/2013, 6:53 PM
Okay... im not a fan of JJ Abrams rebooting a franchise thats had nearly half a century of stories.. but what on gods earth would alter the timeline to have Klingons looking like those? Like seriously, if anything, they should look like the kligons from TES since thats what Spock and Kirk originally saw, not some weird ass designs we see here. Change for change sake is cheapening. Although, i do dig that artwork with the 4 heads on the same shot.
ALF9001
ALF9001 - 8/27/2013, 7:48 PM
Great movie
NoobNoob
NoobNoob - 8/27/2013, 8:57 PM
Love the 1...the 6 looks like osama bin laden
Ocelot
Ocelot - 8/27/2013, 9:34 PM
You call these "aliens", what a joke.
Lhornbk
Lhornbk - 8/27/2013, 9:36 PM
I loved Into Darkness (it's very close between it and MoS for my favorite movie this summer, with IM 3 just a little bit behind.) But, that being said, I don't like some things that Abrams has changed that canNOT be explained by a change in the timeline. The way shields work, the way phasers work (they basically look the same as lasers from any science fiction movie), the way the transporters work (Spock brings back a way of transporting across huge distances, that was supposedly invented by the Scotty in the other timeline, that is NEVER seen in the regular timeline, including Next Generation), and now, the way Klingons look. Oh, and somehow changing the timeline changed Chekov's hair from straight to curly, LOL. They should've either gone with the classic look for the Klingons, or the old TV look, but not anything else. Like I said, I loved both movies and I'm NOT a whiny fanboy, so I can live with the changes, but they did still bug me a little bit, and the movies would've been better without them.
Macksimus
Macksimus - 8/27/2013, 10:02 PM
The Klingnon look is all relative. In TOS, the klingnons looked mostly like humans with tan skin. In the first Star Trek movie, the designers added ridges and more definition to the head/face. Star Trek: Enterprise tried to explain the differences between TOS and the movies, but it didn't actually make any sense when it came to JJ Abrams' movies because it seemed that all the Klingons in Abrams' movies had ridges. Maybe they'll throw us an easter egg and show us a klingon without the ridges. Who know. Point is, the design of the klingons has been in flux since their original conception. The only thing that hasn't changed about them is their personality which is more important than their looks. IMO, Abrams' klingons looked fine. There uniforms in STID looked very similar to the ones they wore in TOS, and their facial features and behavior was more reminiscent of the old Star Trek movies.

Personally, I liked Into Darkness very much. It was a great movie IMO. However, I do hope the next movie has a little more "science-fictiony" elements in it like the old Treks did.
SnapperCarr
SnapperCarr - 8/27/2013, 10:21 PM
The movie was alright
DTor91
DTor91 - 8/28/2013, 5:17 AM
I think the final design worked out well. This movie was awesome. One of my favorites this year, and one of the most entertaining. If I'm talking strictly blockbusters, Man Of Steel, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Pacific Rim in that order. Movie of the year for me thus far, however, is Fruitvale Station.
datNAMEtho
datNAMEtho - 8/28/2013, 5:18 AM
piercings were a bit too much, but great designs!
maninfinesuit
maninfinesuit - 8/28/2013, 6:23 AM
It was okay. Not as great as 2009. The Wolverine takes the gold this summer.
stevebrt
stevebrt - 8/28/2013, 7:26 AM
This is a Klingon
panathatube
panathatube - 8/28/2013, 12:16 PM
The first one with the strange leaf like hair is easily the best, better than the film
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