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retconned Klingons to look super weird
TBF the Klingons were retconned in TMP
From now on, every Star Trek show should change the appearance of the Kinglons and the Trill. And also add a new color of Andorians.
Polka dot Andorians
DO IT YOU PUSSIES
Discovery did update the look of the Ferengi for the 32nd Century, looked kinda cool in my opinion. I can handwave a lot of stuff from Season 3 onwards of Discovery because it's nearly a thousand years ahead of what TNG/VOY/DS9 are at. Things gonna change so meh, tweaks like that don't bother me so much.
I will 100% admit to absolutely fucking hating Discovery when it was originally launched. The Klingons were one of the reasons although not a primary one. Took a while for me to come around and even now I'm like "Eh, I don't mind it." I did appreciate trying to alien them up a little bit more while trying to keep some stuff the same. Season 2 had an okay blend of that.
My only reason for disliking the new Klingon look is that it just felt like it was doing it for the sake of doing it rather than having a good reason to do it. If they wanted to take the TNG look and make it even more alien-looking due to advances in prosthetics it would have been one thing, but they pretty much threw out everything but the ridge heads.
Also, and I'm guessing this is because of what they had to wear in their mouths, the Klingon language got suuuuper slow. Especially with Voq. It made the scenes a lot longer than they needed to be. Voq's speech in the first episode just dragged.
Most of the other visual changes didn't bother me much, since they generally made sense and just were because effects had improved, but I just don't know why they changed the Klingons other than because they could.