I get the idea they are going for, and if they just said it was set in the Kelvin timeline I wouldn't really care what they do with the universe because it was already so far apart in many ways.
This is still supposed to be set in the Prime timeline right? and I would have expected a new coat of paint etc. for most things, but where they are taking even just the Klingons they are setting them far apart from Klingons of any of the shows. The change from Tos to TMP was a change, but there was still many similarities, for one the silly hair cuts and beards stayed around. Now they've redesigned them and telling us there are other biological reasons for the ridges, which is fine as it's never really been touched on, though I don't really think many people cared why, same for other species differences. But why they are all hairless now, and now also come in purple?
I said it before in the topic, but the new Klingons look far more like other members of Krall if he was a different species from Beyond than Klingons. I just wish they just would have made this a Kelvin timline show, it would fit in so much better aesthetically and would likely bother far fewer fans.
