Star Trek Into Darkness: 10 Things That Make No Sense
5. The Klingons
We finally got to see what the Klingons look like in JJ Abrams version of Star Trek. So far they had been hidden behind a mask, a mask that looked quite awesome actually, very cool and aggressive. We already saw Romulans with tattooed faces so how would Abrams re-imagine the Klingons?
The Klingons in this timeline have the ridges and they appear to have a passion for facial piercings, but they also look like a species-of-the-week we might have seen on Star Trek: Voyager. We only saw one Klingon but if they are all like this, then they are a lot less interesting than the Klingons from the original timeline. But at least they still speak the same language.
Looks are not the only way the original Klingons are better, JJs Klingons appear to be crap at a lot of things including detecting long distance transports to their home planet and unauthorised ships entering orbit.
Yes Khan transported into an uninhabited area of Kronos but Klingons have the ability to build ships and conquer planets. Would a mysterious long distance transport not be detected? If for some reason they missed that, how did they not spot a mysterious vessel travelling near Kronos, an area that should be full of Klingon ships? It makes no sense; we have the ability now to detect anything alien that might enter Earths atmosphere. It was one too many leaps of faith for any of these events to seem plausible.
The war with the Klingons looks set to be a big part of Star Trek 3. Judging by their short appearance in Into Darkness, Starfleet doesn't have much to worry about, they seem quite inept. It makes you wonder why Admiral Marcus was so worried about the Klingons; they cant even adequately protect Kronos very well so taking them out shouldn't be too hard.