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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
It is likely that human-looking Klingons still exist although they don't have to make an appearance in a future movie. Since everything in Star Trek that occurred before the time of the movie is still in continuity, the events in "Star Trek: Enterprise" that showed how human-looking Klingons came to be is still valid.
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Yes, events up to the beginning of the movie are the same as in the original continuity. That being said, we have something like a 25-30 year period between the point of divergence and the new Universe's Kirk taking command of the Enterprise.
If I remember correctly, the back story of the movie suggests that the Movie Universe Enterprise was made much more powerful than the original show's Enterprise because of events surrounding the point of divergence. The Klingons certainly would have known something about that and who knows how they might have reacted.
Ultimately, my point here is, that something that might appear to be a relatively small change at the time of the event can have huge unpredictable consequences even as little as 20-30 years down the line. For example, lets imagine that John Kennedy died when his PT-Boat was sunk in WWII. Suddenly Nixon getting elected in 1960 becomes a whole lot more likely... or its possible that LBJ or even another Democratic Candidate would have been elected. Now in this new timeline, does the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Wall Crisis or the Cuban Missile Crisis occur? And who knows what happens after 1963.
Thus returning to Star Trek, the Federation is changed, so the Klingon Empire must be changed as well... how and in what direction is up to the writers of the Movies to decide. I can well imagine them not wanting other authors creating their own versions of that Universe until they have had a bit more time to establish it.
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Bill