Three new actors announced as well as some plot details

[Zonker]

All three actors will be Klingons and will be involved in a campaign to unite the Klingon houses.
http://www.startrek.com/article/qapla-discovery-introduces-the-klingons

 

[F. King Daniel]

I read "...to unite the Klingon houses" and cringed. TNG Klingon politics episodes bored me to death. Hoping this is different and better.

 

[Romulan_spy]

I read "...to unite the Klingon houses" and cringed. TNG Klingon politics episodes bored me to death. Hoping this is different and better.

Depends on how it is executed of course. Political drama can be quite good. I think Klingon politics could be interesting if the show makes us care about the characters and their motivations. It is when Klingons become one dimensional "barbarians with honor" that it gets boring.

 

[BillJ]

They beat the Klingons to death in all of the spinoffs. Not sure I see this as an encouraging sign.

 

[The Wormhole]

Personally, I like Klingons. Klingons are cool.

 

[BillJ]

Personally, I like Klingons. Klingons are cool.

They were. Once upon a time. Then we had twenty-plus straight seasons of Klingon characters.

 

[The Wormhole]

Hmm, now that you mention it, it is shocking that Enterprise season 3 is the only season of all of Trek that is 100% Klingon-free.

 

[tomalak301]

Can we do something else. Enough with the Klingons. Would have liked a pure romulan political thriller. At least give us something new.

 

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[The Wormhole]

Can we do something else. Enough with the Klingons. Would have liked a pure romulan political thriller. At least give us something new.

When you're damned if you do and damned if you don't, take the solution that entails the least amount of work.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"Battle deck commander", huh? I like the sound of that.

 

[Ralphis]

I bet it'll be flat-head Klingons vs. bumpy-head Klingons.

Again, I just want to see it before I poop on it. I'm really hoping it's good.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I bet it'll be flat-head Klingons vs. bumpy-head Klingons.

That's a good point. Has there been any indication as to which kind DSC will use?

 

[JD]

As long as they stick to what Enterprise established, they could always use both. A lot of the Prime Universe 23rd Century books and comics have gone that route.
Cool, I love the Klingons and I'm really happy they'll have a significant presence in Discovery. I've seen some of the things in the actors' credits, but I don't remember any of them.

 

[LtChange]

Giving the time period and the fact that we know the Federation and Klingons are in some kind of state of war and not so war I'm not surprised at all. Also Meyer did a very good Klingon TUC so his presence is a sign too ... The klingons are the iconic enemy of the Federation so yeah ... If handled right this could be awesome but it might be a fail too. But so can any other race be awesome or fail ... So I wait to see the main story

 

[The Overlord]

They beat the Klingons to death in all of the spinoffs. Not sure I see this as an encouraging sign.

The last of those spin offs went off the air more then a decade ago, a bunch of new potential fans will not be sick of them.

Here is the thing, the show runners may be playing it safe by playing up iconic elements of the franchise, like Klingons, but as long as they do something new with them, I have no problem. We never had a reoccurring Klingon that we got see devlop over the course of several seasons, we never had a Klingon version of Dukat, most of the Klingon captains were genric bad guys of the week.

This at least seems somewhat new, I would like a darker take on the Klingon honor code, because honor and morality are no the same thing.

What I don't want to have this show recycle story beats the same way Into Darkness or the Force Awakened did, so I hope we see something new with the Klingons, rather then an exact repeat of past stories.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

Cool! Sounds interesting. I really liked the political intrigue surrounding Worf's family and choosing a new emperor in TNG. So, this could be fun.

I'd like to see more Vulcans and Andorians too. I guess I have ENT for that though.

 

[Tuskin38]

Assuming the text in the header image is Klingonese, they've redesigned the 'calligraphy' it seems.

Or it could not be Klingon at all.

 

[Mudd]

Getting rid of the Klingons ideally means inventing new antagonists who work as well.

That has not gone down well for the Franchise in the past. The Borg would be the single success story; the Cardassians were TOS Klingons with a couple of coats of paint. You can't use either of those without some people somewhere bleating about how they don't belong in a TOS prequel, so really the Klingons are the simplest solution.

 

[Borgminister]

Borg, baby.
Runs.