Watching the first episode of "Enterprise" (never seen it before). A bit miffed about the following comment:

"If we hadn't convinced them to let us take Klaang's corpse back to Kronos, Earth would most likely be facing a squadron of Warbirds by the end of the week."

This is just another example of how they took a perfectly cool race (the Romulans) and decided, fuck it -- we'll just give the Klingons all their attributes.

TOS Klings were warmongering bullies, not honorable warriors -- in the words of David Gerrold:

"Klingons are professional villains. They are nasty, vicious, brutal, and merciless. They don't bathe regularly, they don't use deodorants or brush their teeth ... Think of the Mongol Hordes with spaceships and ray guns. To the Klingons, Genghis Khan was a phony and Attila the Hun was a fairy. And Hitler was only a beginner ... Klingons build their battlecruisers without toilets; it makes them nastier. Kligons pick on old ladies. Klingons fart in air locks ... And those are their good points ...

"Besides, if Star Trek needs to tell a real war story, that's what the Romulans are for..."

And Klingons DEFINITELY don't fly warbirds -- at least until the ill-considered decision to give them some as of Star Trek III.

Don't get me wrong, there's room for both, and then some (and I did like that the Tholians, Andorians, Tellerites, heck, even a silly-looking CGI Gorn make it on Enterprise from time to time) -- but the producers' decision to start blurring the lines between the two (and ultimately shaft the Romulans on the deal -- ST: Nemesis was just silly; Remans, indeed...) was poorly made.

Rant mode off.