Prehistoric Klingons

With the Klingons, the original ones were dark make-up and black hair, then, when the movies started, they put a little forehead on them, that was all, just a small little ridge and a couple of little bumps in the centre of the forehead.

When I came on, in 1987, I wanted to give them a stronger forehead with the nose and it was all approved and so I was able to to design the Klingons that way. I had a book on dinosaurs and their vertebraes were all cut in half, and so I could take a little section of a dinosaur vertebrae and duplicate that, flip it over and duplicate it on the other side, and then duplicate it in rows. So the Klingon foreheads that have been done since 1987 are all based on a little chunk of dinosaur vertebrae.