7 plot changes that doomed Star Trek: Discovery before it started

The Uruk-Hai Klingons

If you want to tell the story of the past, then tell it properly. Don't try to do it differently because you think you can make it better. The cosmetic changes to the Klingons were among the most useless and short-sighted ideas the franchise had to offer. They weren't poorly designed, mind you, and could've been a great race of their own, but trying to shoehorn these Klingons into the show, as whacky and different as they were, at a time when we knew what they should look like, just backfired immensely.

Had the show been set after Voyager, before any other shows came, and then you had the Klingons show up like this, different story. We know that Klingons change or have changed from time to time due to some type of genetic modifications, and having the Klingons remove themselves from the public eye for some time, after they got ripped apart by the Dominion, only to return looking like this would've been a great plot point. It'd show how desperate they were to get back their edge.

This, again, just feels like the showrunners for the series were trying to make Star Trek "better" and no one wanted that. The idea of telling a fandom "The thing you like is dumb, this is better" by outsiders will always be poorly received. And, shockingly that's exactly what happened here.