I think they just felt the klingons in TOS didn't look alien enough. Plus with advances in fake forehead technology they were able them look more intimidating and "realistic". The TOS klingons were just regular people with funky goatees and in today's standard of sci-fi, wouldn't be accepted as a real alien.
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I think they just felt the klingons in TOS didn't look alien enough. Plus with advances in fake forehead technology they were able them look more intimidating and "realistic". The TOS klingons were just regular people with funky goatees and in today's standard of sci-fi, wouldn't be accepted as a real alien.