C3PX said:
I still maintain that the Klingon foreheads is by no means a continuity issue, but rather a simple evolution of technical abilities. Originally to make different aliens they just dressed them differently and gave them different ears. Some got masks, but they looked awful. By the time the Motion Picture came along, the money and technology was there. Why not take advantage of it?

To start, I have to say I have NO BEEF whatsoever with the improved Klingon appearance over the years. But that has to do with Star Trek being lots and lots of small stories. Discounting a handful of episodes and the movies 2-4, Star Trek isn't one long narrative, so 'continuity' isn't important. On the same hand, I've never given much thought to any 'continuity errors' in the EU.

But it seems to me if it's kosher to change the entire appearance and culture of the main antagonists, why is it sacriligious to redesign the spaceship (which looks pretty darn identical to me)? Uhurua is serious, beutiful, and brilliant. Spock is half-human... why wouldn't they dig eachother? Is flipping out and denying what I thought was a couple nice character moments based on the nebulous concept of 'canon' really worth it?

Here's a quote from Paula Block, head of liscensing at Paramout on the topic of 'canon'

Another thing that makes canon a little confusing. Gene R. himself had a habit of decanonizing things. He didn't like the way the animated series turned out, so he proclaimed that it was NOT CANON. He also didn't like a lot of the movies. So he didn't much consider them canon either. And—okay, I'm really going to scare you with this one-after he got TNG going, he .. well .. he sort of decided that some of the Original Series wasn't canon either. I had a discussion with him once, where I cited a couple things that were very clearly canon in the Original Series, and he told me that he didn't think that way anymore, and that he now thought of TNG as canon wherever there was conflict between the two. He admitted it was revisionist thinking, but so be it.