Michael Dorn was going to be in Discovery playing a Klingon. Could you picture him in that costume?I like that we can now basically categorize Klingons in the same way we categorize peanut butter.
So what is the idea supposed to be? That these are simply the standard level 'bumpy' Klingons, just with more detailed makeup than they used 20+ years ago? Because I'm afraid that I would find it very hard to retcon the idea in my head that Worf 'really' looked like these buggers all along, rather than looking like a regular dude with a cool crinkle-cut forehead.
I can just about accept Mirror Mirror's suggestion that it's more genetic engineering, given we've seen that become actual story fodder/canon thanks to Deep Space Nine and Enterprise. But for me to accept that, it needs to be a) stated clearly on screen that this is what they are, and b) the new Klingons ideally need to be seen alongside the old Klingons to help "sell" the idea.
The TV shows and first ten movies reference each other in many ways, like events, uniforms, guests, ships, etc.
I can buy the new Klingons meaning this isn't Prime a lot more than the uniforms or sets. The ships and uniforms have changed a lot more often than the Klingons, so I can see why the change to Klingons might indicate to some people it isn't Prime. I still think it is Prime, but I am curious to see if we're going to get an explanation for the Klingons we see in the trailer.I'd probably find it a lot easier to rationalize the 'Discovery' production design being modernized, as nobody was ever going to make a show with sets and uniforms replicating those seen in the sixties.But it's actually the Klingon redesign (so closely aping that seen in the Kelvin films) that I find a little harder to take. I'm not usually someone who quibbles over these kinds of pointless details too much, life's too short for that.
But I can see myself finding accepting that change to be just a little bit too far in my mind, and I'll probably end up seeing 'Discovery' as a prequel to the Kelvin films, rather than a prequel to TOS, just because anything else would probably bug me too much in the long run.
That's not to mean I'd have expected them to use bare-headed Klingons with racist blackface and Fu-Manchu beards.But like in 'Enterprise' before it, something in the vein of the TNG Klingons or even the subtlety different TMP Klingons with their spiney-spines might have been acceptable. Those 'Discovery' Klingons are just too much like the ones in the Kelvin-verse for me to overlook it. (Although, funnily enough, both the 'Discovery' and 'Kelvin' Klingons seem to bare some similarity to the pre-evolved Worf from TNG episode "Genesis".) Are they meant simply to be yet another strain/race of Klingons we've never saw before?
Yes.
The abuse will be the same no matter what we call it.
This, best (imo) explanation.
But "continuity" enjoys being abused. "Canon" is tired of having its name dragged through the mud, and just wants to be left alone.
Continuity will sobbing in the corner in no time.
