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At Long Last, Meet J.J. Abrams' Klingons [Star Trek] external link

Rate   io9 | by Charlie Jane Anders | Wed, Oct 28

Wed, Oct 28 But it turns out there's less to the Klingons than meet the eye in some scenes. According to this snippet of making-of footage which turned up online recently, some of the Klingons were actually little kids in Klingon costumes, shot from angles to make them look like grown-ups, so the sets w...

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