10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek: Discovery

3. Klingon Backpedallng

Klingons. Backbone of the Star Trek franchise since Errand of Mercy and John Colicos sparred with Kirk on Organia. 

They have undergone their fair share of reboots with The Motion Picture introducing the distinct cranial ridges and armour, although the ship aesthetics remained, if not upgraded, for the big screen experience.

Subsequent shows, TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise kept to the tradition that the first movie expedited, even going as far as retroactively explaining the lack of ridges in The Original Series.

But for Discovery, there would be a bold and, in hindsight, unwanted decision to redesign them once again.

While itself not a dumb decision and one that was made to help Discovery create its own look and vision of the 23rd Century, the choice was widely vilified. Bald Klingons? On great big Gothic-type ships? What's going on?

So along came season two, and a very Discovery thing happened. The show tried to explain why the Klingons of season one looked different. From season two onwards, they regained their longer hair, the ridges became more prominent and that "established" look made a rather inconspicuous return. The reason being that Klingons shave their heads when they go to war. 

A line designed to retroactively explain the first season, but in fact opens up a whole barrel of gagh when that line is directed to the Dominion War. There's no sign of a bald Martok, and Gowron shows no signs of heading for a skin-fade.