Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ showrunners say their version of the series would have gone on ‘forever’
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The thing with the Klingons was likely trying to explain why the TOS Klingons were just guys with curly hair.
I like the DS9 time travel episode where Worf says, yes those are Klingons, and no we're not going to talk about it.