Star Trek: 10 Times Canon Got In The Way

Or if you're not Klingon fluent it's the nearest you can get to "Reinventing the wheel".

Over the course of the colourful history of Star Trek the Klingons have undergone several facelifts. Quite literally. As fans there has to be some acceptance for updates, reworkings and the like to make things more "realistic" for each audience and the abilities of makeup artists, effects artists and the like yet with Discovery, Klingons had a really weird deal.

Suddenly they were all bald with very different facial features, less prominent ridges and nothing like the accoutrements from Enterprise or even TOS. In fact Enterprise had gone out of its way to explain the lack of ridges in TOS due to genetic experimentation that made more sense than Worf's line about something ..."we do not discuss with outsiders."

Sitting, canonically, right between Archer and Kirk, Discovery went their own way with the Klingon look, choosing to go for a bold update that divided the fan community even before the first episode aired.

In this instance though, the decision to ignore canon seemed to backfire as within the second season episode Point of Light it was noted that the Klingons had now stopped shaving their heads because they were no longer at war.

A cool way around however it doesn't ring true if you consider they weren't bald for the Dominion War.