This retcon itself was later retconned, in Star Trek: Enterprise, via a storyline in which it is revealed that the original, quasi-human appearance of the Klingons is due to a genetic mutation caused by an engineered virus – as it happened, " genetic engineering " ( Chief O ' Brien ) and " viral mutation " ( Dr. Bashir ) had been the guesses Worf refused to confirm or deny.

It is later revealed that Jack Tenorman, Scott's father, is Cartman's father as well, thus turning the murder into a patricide ; this revelation represents a retcon ( short for " retroactive continuity ") of Professor Mephisto's statement that the hermaphroditic Mrs. Cartman is Eric's father.

The exact details vary from book to book, and in at least one case — the radioactive contamination of Earth — later scientific discoveries forced Asimov to retcon his own future history.

" He has cranial ridges much like the retcon Romulans ' appearance when they appeared in later Trek seriesa similar continuity fudge to that concerning the Klingons ' differing appearances over the different timelines of the various movies and television shows.

Her real name is Mysa Nal, although her name was given as Xola Aq in Silver Age Legion stories in Adventure Comics ; the revelation that her name was actually Mysa Nal was a later retcon.

Maxwell Lord IV initially worked behind the scenes to establish the League while under the control of a villainous computer created by Metron ( a later retcon would say that this was actually the villainous computer program Kilg % re ( pron.

The much later, post-Infinite Crisis retcon mitigated the Kilg % re and the New Gods ' influence, stating that Maxwell Lord already had plans for taking over the League, and he would have pursued them on his own volition regardless ).

Kilg % re, however, had been waiting patiently for the right moment to reactivate its control of Lord and downloads his consciousness into a duplicate of one of the Extremist robots, Lord Havok ( in a further retcon the body is said to be a New Genesis-built automaton, which later fell into Checkmate's possession ).

A further retcon plays on this sentiment, introducing Lord as distrusting of every authoritative figure and pressured by his mother at first and by the dramatic event of the Death of Superman later, to shift his mistrust and hatred on the metahuman community, guilty of being distant and uncaring about human suffering.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

In his bachelor days, his bedroom had been strewn with clothes which his mother, or later the hotel maid, generally saw fit to put in order.

After the death of Lincoln's mother, his older sister, Sarah, took charge of caring for him until their father remarried in 1819 ; Sarah later died in her 20s while giving birth to a stillborn son.

The meaning of the epithet " Lyceus " later became associated Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddes of Lycia ( Λυκία ) and who was identified with the wolf ( λύκος ), earning him the epithets Lycegenes ( ; Λυκηγενής, Lukēgenēs, literally " born of a wolf " or " born of Lycia ") and Lycoctonus ( ; Λυκοκτόνος, Lukoktonos, from λύκος, " wolf ", and κτείνειν, " to kill ").

Aphrodite also became instrumental in the Eros and Psyche legend, and later was both Adonis ' lover and his surrogate mother.

Agamemnon's son Orestes later avenged his father's murder, with the help or encouragement of his sister Electra, by murdering Aegisthus and Clytemnestra ( his own mother ), thereby inciting the wrath of the Erinyes ( English: the Furies ), winged goddesses who tracked down egregiously impious wrongdoers with their hounds ' noses and drove them to insanity.

Aga Khan I's mother later moved to India where she died in 1851.

Agrippina the Younger would become a future Roman Empress and mother to the later Emperor Nero.

As a measure intended to keep the support of the Doukai, Alexios restored Constantine Doukas, the young son of Michael VII and Maria, as co-emperor and a little later betrothed him to his own first-born daughter Anna, who moved into the Mangana Palace with her fiancé and his mother.

The mother of a bastard may summon the putative father to petty sessions within 12 months of the birth ( or at any later time if he is proved to have contributed to the child's support within 12 months after the birth ), and the justices, as after hearing evidence on both sides, may, if the mother's evidence be corroborated in some material particular, adjudge the man to be the putative father

Although his paternal great-grandfather had been a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, and his pious mother did have him baptised, he was an atheist in later life.

" The Caplins were dirt poor, and Capp later recalled stories of his mother going out in the night to sift through ash barrels for reusable bits of coal.

His mother died on his 12th birthday, and his father, a country solicitor, later remarried, to an elder cousin, Lucy, in 1873.

The mother later claimed that her son had watched one of the fire-related segments shortly before he burned down the home, although, according to an article in the March 24, 1994 issue of Rolling Stone, neighbors claimed that the family did not have cable television.

He credited his mother, later writing " imbued me with the feeling that I had some sort of talent.

Following at the Battle of Uhud in 625, it is said that after killing Hamzah ibn Abdu l-Muṭṭalib, his liver was consumed by Hind bint ‘ Utbah ( the wife of Abû Sufyan ibn Harb one of the commanders of the Qurayš army ) who later reportedly converted to Islam and became the mother of Muawiyah I founder of the Islamic Umayyad Caliphate.

Sagan traced his later analytical urges to his mother, a woman who had known " extreme poverty as a child ", and had grown up almost homeless in New York City during World War I and the 1920s.

In 1871 he married his mother ’ s maid, Julie Vellay, a vineyard grower ’ s daughter, with whom he would later have seven children.

She was born in Fresno on July 17, 1916, and later moved with her divorced mother and her brother and sister to Los Angeles.

His mother, previously a member ( with David ) of the River Brethren sect of the Mennonites, joined the International Bible Students Association, which later became Jehovah's Witnesses.

His later decision to attend West Point saddened his mother, who felt that warfare was " rather wicked ," but she did not overrule him.

His parentage was supplied as a later addition to the mythos, providing him with a father in either Metion, Eupalamus or Palamaon, and a mother, either Alcippe, Athena, Iphinoe or Phrasimede.

Donaldson later described his father Robert, the son of Italian and German immigrants, as a man who " frowned on display of emotion " and his mother Lois as " an English, Scottish Texan, artistic, free-spirited, emotional, impulsive.

1016 ), perhaps married firstly with Eric the Victorious, King of Sweden, and later wife of Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, by whom she is said to have been mother of Canute the Great, King of Denmark, Norway and England.

His mother was awarded custody and later married Terry Hobbs.

However, both Julius and Ethel wanted their children to be brought up in England, so they moved to Maida Vale, London, where Turing was born on 23 June 1912, as recorded by a blue plaque on the outside of the house of his birth, later the Colonnade Hotel.

His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Jack & Ethel Brett then moved the family to the Midwest and three years later to El Segundo, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, just south of Los Angeles International Airport.

Her two sisters, Alice ( later spelled Alyse ) ( 1899 – 1965 ) and Ethel ( 1902 – 1990 ), also became singers.

The iconic depiction of Chaplin working frantically to keep up with an assembly line inspired later comedy routines including Disney's Der Fuehrer's Face ( Donald Duck alternately assembling artillery shells and saluting portraits of Adolf Hitler ) and an episode of I Love Lucy titled " Job Switching " ( Lucy and Ethel trying to keep up with an ever-increasing volume of chocolate candies, eventually stuffing them in their mouths, hats, and blouses ).

In 1904 he married Ethel Hester Moore ( 1878 – 1961 ), and in 1907 he moved with his family to " Sopers ", a house in the village of Ditchling in Sussex, which would later become the centre of an artists ' community inspired by Gill.

Merman was born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann in her maternal grandmother's house located at 265 4th Street in Astoria, Queens, in New York City in 1908, though she would later emphatically declare that it was actually 1912.

Julian Grenfell was born at 4 St James's Square, London, the eldest son of William Grenfell, later Baron Desborough, and Ethel Priscilla Fane, daughter of Julian Fane.

The show included entertainers such as Frankie Lymon, The Supremes, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, LaVern Baker, Harry Belafonte, James Brown, Godfrey Cambridge, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby, Count Basie, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bo Diddley, Rocío Dúrcal, Duke Ellington, Lola Falana, The 5th Dimension, Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Dick Gregory, W. C. Handy, Lena Horne, The Jackson 5, Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Moms Mabley, Johnny Mathis, The Miracles ( later known as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles ), Melba Moore, The Platters, Leontyne Price, Richard Pryor, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Nipsey Russell, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, The Temptations, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Tina Turner ( at the time known as " The Ike & Tina Turner Revue "), Leslie Uggams, William Warfield, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Flip Wilson, Jackie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and Stevie Wonder.

Barbara Pepper ( later featured as Doris Ziffel in the series Green Acres ) was also considered to play Ethel, but Pepper had been drinking very heavily after the death of her husband, Craig W. Reynolds.

The then Deputy Attorney General of the United States William P. Rogers, when later asked about the failure of the indictment of Ethel to extract a full confession from Julius, reportedly said, " She called our bluff.

* Ethel Lina White-The Wheel Spins ( later The Lady Vanishes )

Dame Hilda, as she later became, was based partly on Ethel Smyth and partly on Elisabeth Lutyens ( who was not pleased, and considered legal action ).

His daughter, Ethel Kate Bowen, married Josiah Wedgwood IV ( later 1st Baron Wedgwood ) of the pottery dynasty.

Born in East Melbourne, Australia into a prosperous family that later fell on hard times, Ethel Florence ( who preferred to answer to Et, Ettie or Etta ) was the elder daughter of Walter Lindesay Richardson MD ( c. 1826 – 79 ) and his wife Mary ( née Bailey ).

Tucker's comic and singing styles are credited with influencing later female entertainers, including Mae West, Rusty Warren, Joan Rivers, Roseanne Barr, Ethel Merman, " Mama " Cass Elliot of The Mamas & the Papas, and most notably Bette Midler who has included " Soph " as one of her many stage characters ( and whose daughter Sophie is reputedly named after Tucker ).

Her daughter Ethel Clifford ( d. 1959 ), later Lady Dilke, having married Sir Fisher Wentworth Dilke, 4th Baronet ( 1877 – 1944 ) in 1905, was a published poet.

After proposing to Ethel Armes, Yone left for Japan in late August, settling in Tokyo and awaiting her arrival ; their engagement fell through months later when she learned of Léonie and her newborn son.

In 1957, after the highly successful half-hour I Love Lucy episodes had ended, Vance continued playing Ethel Mertz on a series of hour-long specials titled The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show ( later retitled The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour ).

A few years later, Daniels starred in the London production of Panama Hattie in the title role originated by Ethel Merman.

Winston, several years later, married Clementine Hozier, a ravishing beauty who looked very much like Ethel, but Winston and Ethel remained friends until the end of her life.

Ethel vowed never to attend another boxing match though she would later watch boxing on television.

* Her Lot, or How She Was Protected ( later revised in manuscript form as Ethel Graeme's Destiny: A Story of Real Life ).

Ethel du Pont later committed suicide at the age of 49, on May 25, 1965.