Star Trek Just Gave The Klingons Transformer Powers
The Klingons returned and were restored to their proper form in the season 2 premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. That doesn’t mean there wasn’t at least one upgrade to their equipment.
The episode featured a Klingon D7 Battle Cruiser, and when it bore down on the Enterprise, it had a surprise for them: Gigantic disrupter canons that popped out of the nacelles. Take a look…
It makes sense. The nacelles on a classic D7 have always been unusually wide. If half of each nacelle is actually a gun, not a nacelle, that would explain it.
Here’s a classic D7 Battle Cruise for comparison…
This is also in keeping with the general Klingon design philosophy. The Klingon Bird of Prey has wing-tip mounted disrupters too.
