Speculation about the political situation in DSC

[Kevin Wolff]

I think they could do this and touch on the political situation in the US. A new Klingon leader who wants to "Make the Klingon's great again". This leader would ban all Smooth-heads from the Klingon Empire which is why we see Smooth-heads in TOS. All the ridge-heads are back home.
After typing this, I feel like this should be a joke, but it's really happening.

Exactly. House T'Rump says "No way are we uniting houses, we're gonna make the empire great again. Starting with the great Tribble hunt."
Now add houses for Russia, China, extremists, etc. and you got yourself a dangerous, contentious Klingon species.
Star Trek works well when the aliens are like us 21st century humans. The federation represents entry-level utopia. Where we want to be one day.

Regarding the smooth heads, they would probably need to be smarter since they are essentially mutated humans, without their exoskeletal parts, increased strength, and redundant vital organs. Not hard to see how these 2 types of Klingons would not get along.

 

[Spot261]

I'm wondering if the series will be, like the Axanar fanfilm, about hostilities with the Klingons. The Klingons will be here what the Romulans might have been on ENT.

I think it would be hard to work in the time frame and NOT feature the klingons heavily. The single most pressing issue for the federation at the time seems to have been the cold war scenario they had with the empire and if this show is to have the politically motivated content it appears to have then surely they are the way forward.

I'd like to actually see more of the empire beyond the ships and the great hall on Qo'nos. It's quite surprising really that in fifty years we still know so little of the vassal species and internal structure oft he empire. We know that a relatively small cadre of native klingons form a sort of honour based feudal system with houses vying for power. We know the military is based largely on those houses contributing ships and conscripts. What we have no idea is what the remaining 99% of the empire even looks like, what life is like under the klingons, how they feed themselves, how their economy works, etc.

I honestly don't care if the Klingons have bumps or not, as long as they are not two-dimensional caricatures.

Why break with fifty years of established canon?