In one of the Star Trek rpgs (from sometime after WoK) they explained it like this:
The Klingons in TOS were "human fusion" Klingons, who had their dna altered to "better understand" their enemy. The Christopher Lloyd Klingons (and after) are "Imperial Klingons" and thus never had any alterations. Similarly there are Romulan-fusions Klingons, etc. Eventually the Imperials were worried that the "fusions" had gained too much power, and so reasserted their control... through genocide, by my guess.
This would be why Worf was uneasy about explaining it, and why the "pre-contact" Klingons in Enterprise don't look like TOS Klingons.
Then again, it's just a game's hack at trying to explain one of Trek's many, many inconsistencies.
The Klingons in TOS were "human fusion" Klingons, who had their dna altered to "better understand" their enemy. The Christopher Lloyd Klingons (and after) are "Imperial Klingons" and thus never had any alterations. Similarly there are Romulan-fusions Klingons, etc. Eventually the Imperials were worried that the "fusions" had gained too much power, and so reasserted their control... through genocide, by my guess.
This would be why Worf was uneasy about explaining it, and why the "pre-contact" Klingons in Enterprise don't look like TOS Klingons.
Then again, it's just a game's hack at trying to explain one of Trek's many, many inconsistencies.
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