Watch what happens when a group of people witness some of the most controversial episodes of Star Trek.
- Star Trek: Picard S1E8 “Broken Piece”
- Star Trek S3E1 “Spock’s Brain”
- Star Trek: The Next Generation S1E4 “Code of Honor”
- Star Trek: The Next Generation S2E22 “Shades of Grey”
- Star Trek: The Next Generation S2E18 “Up the Long Ladder”
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
- Star Trek: Enterprise S4E22 “These Are the Voyages…”
- Star Trek: Section 31
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2E9 “Subspace Rhapsody”
- Star Trek: Discovery S1E1 “The Vulcan Hello”
- Star Trek: Lower Decks S1E1 “Second Contact”
- Star Trek: Scouts S1E4 “Asteroid Blasters, Number 4”
- Star Trek: Voyager S2E9 “Tattoo”
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine S1E9 “Move Along Home”
Say what you will about Discovery as a whole, the Klingon redesign was awful and unnecessary. Granted, I was also not a fan of the first Klingon redesign.
I’ll go to bat for it. The existing Klingon makeup was initially pretty fearsome, but had become too friendly and familiar to the fans. We’d watched Worf get beat up 100 times, get married, and fret over a pimple, and we’d seen too many jolly Klingon blood wine parties. It wouldn’t have been effective for Discovery’s story of a truly alien warrior race re-emerging after 100 years and going straight for Starfleet’s jugular. A dramatic redesign was the best most effective way to put us in the characters’ headspace for the Klingon war arc. And they’d already been reworked in the past, so why not again?
(I appreciate that you oppose each redesign, though! Rarely see that consistency.)