Even if Kruge defeated Kirk...

[TheAdmiralty]

So I guess that means Kirk's sweet leg flip was all for nothing.......

 

[FormerLurker]

According to the novelization, Kruge's pet is a Warrigul, not a Targ(it still isn't called anything).

Not too surprising, since Targs weren't invented until the first season of TNG, three years later.

True. Later fans, and even the Okudas at one point, called the pet a Targ after the TNG episode came out. But the novelization was explicit about calling it a Warrigul. The way I see it, if the Targ is a Klingon dog, the Warrigul is a Klingon cat of some kind. And Kruge's liked scritchies.

 

[Paradise City]

A Targ is a Klingon dog and a Warrigul is a breed of Klingon dog? A klingon answer to the pitbull perhaps? Maybe a Klingon wolf of some kind?

 

[T'Girl]

I like the idea that Maltz was still on the ship when they took back off from Vulcan, and ended up stranded on Earth in the late 1980's by getting off the ship while no one was paying attention.

If Malz was going to fit in anywhere on Earth of the 1980's, it would be San Fransisco.

And I think a targ would be more akin to a pig than a dog, pigs actually make good pets. Intelligent, easy to train and very loyal.

 

[FormerLurker]

Considering the one Targ we saw, Worf's childhood pet, was played by a pig, there are many that call the Targ a pig/dog.

If the Warrigul is a breed of Klingon dog, it's a wolfhound to the Targ's basset hound.

 

[T'Girl]

Given it's long nose, it's what Klingons use to find truffles.

 

[f14peter]

A Targ is a Klingon dog and a Warrigul is a breed of Klingon dog? A klingon answer to the pitbull perhaps? Maybe a Klingon wolf of some kind?

Well, there are targs ... and then there are targs. Kruge had something semi-targ-like as a pet, Worf had a (confirmed) targ as a pet, but Martok was happy Worf would be "an ambassador who will go targ hunting with me!" Targs were also a food source, sometimes carried live to be slaughtered as needed on early IKS ships

Maybe it's a "all warrigul are targs, but not all targs are warriguls" thing. Who knows, I may be barking up the wrong tree

 

[The Old Mixer]

pigs actually make good pets.

And even better pork chops.

Intelligent, easy to train and very loyal.

Not to mention damned tasty.

 

[Seven of Five]

I'm beginning to wonder what other breed of Klingon dog exists. A Klingon shih tzu or chihuahua anyone?