The New Klingons

[EmoBorg]

I prefer the iconic bearded Klingons. These guys look like Generic Star Trek villains.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Has Star Trek ever featured a really nasty alien race as villains that looked... quite pretty and friendly?

Maybe Trek needs a giggleing Dolores Umbridge villain.

Does Deela in "Wink of an Eye" count?

 

[cultcross]

These guys look like Generic Star Trek villains.

What's more generic Star Trek villain then a Klingon?

 

[captainkirk]

could very well be a cult.

Something about them gives me that feel as well. Especially with Sarek's line about needing a cause for their followers to rally around. My guess is that the sarcophagus contains Kahless's enemy, Molor. According to Memory Alpha:

In Klingon traditional history, Molor was a hated tyrant who ruled Qo'noS during the 9th century. He was said to be so strong that no man could oppose him but one: Kahless the Unforgettable.

Some entrepreneurs on Maranga IV claimed to have Molor's mummified head on display for a fee of fifty darseks per person. Their claim was unlikely to be true. Assuming such a claim was at all plausible, it may be a reference to Klingon mummification.

 

[cultcross]

I would give a lot for it to be something that didn't set off Nerd Alert alarms from here to Qo'nos. Something grounded in a real cause of conflict, or a real issue, which spawns something more complex and interesting than either a war or a generic fight-the-villain story.

 

[dahj]

What's more generic Star Trek villain then a Klingon?

Starfleet officer gone bad or mad or both?

 

[CommanderRaytas]

My head canon has always been that we encountered almost entirely a kind of military nobility, a chivalry and honour obsessed Knight class similar to that which existed in England in the time of Edward III.

There's no way Klingon society could function if they were all like that.

Exactly. It's better to have a three-dimensional head canon than what we actually got, i.e. a society where even lawyers GO INTO BATTTLLLLEEEEE!!!!! GRAWWWWRRRR! Imagine what everyday life must be like on that planet. The milkmen BATTLE THE DISHONOURRRR OF POTENTIALLY LATE DELIVERY OF DAIRY PRODUCTS! Dustmen FIGHT AGAINST THE DISHONOURABLE FOE THAT IS PUBLIC POLLUTION! GRAWWWWRRR!

It's so tiring.

 

[cultcross]

Exactly. It's better to have a three-dimensional head canon than what we actually got, i.e. a society where even lawyers GO INTO BATTTLLLLEEEEE!!!!! GRAWWWWRRRR! Imagine what everyday life must be like on that planet. The milkmen BATTLE THE DISHONOURRRR OF POTENTIALLY LATE DELIVERY OF DAIRY PRODUCTS! Dustmen FIGHT AGAINST THE DISHONOURABLE FOE THAT IS PUBLIC POLLUTION! GRAWWWWRRR!

It's so tiring.

Haha
YOU HAVE MISSPELLED MY NAME ON MY STARBUCKS! YOU DISHONOUR ME AND MY ANCESTORS, PREPARE TO DIE!!

 

[CommanderRaytas]

Hehehehe.

The worst job in the universe must be Klingon customer service.

 

[Tosk]

It's better to have a three-dimensional head canon than what we actually got, i.e. a society where even lawyers GO INTO BATTTLLLLEEEEE!!!!!

I recall several Klingon lawyers. I don't remember any of them going into battle or screaming very much. The idea that all Klingons ever do is thirst for battle and honor mostly comes from the fact that we don't see too many that aren't in the military. When we do, it's pretty clear that their personalities and desires aren't so black and white.

 

[cultcross]

I recall several Klingon lawyers. I don't remember any of them going into battle or screaming very much

But they made a point of having a conversation about how the courtroom was an HONOURABLE BATTLEFIELD!!!

 

[captainkirk]

Martok had a line about how Klingons make terrible doctors. If that's the case then most of them should die very young, not live for over a century like we've often seen. And is the operating theater an HONOURABLE BATTLEFIELD!!!!?

 

[RAMA]

Hey look, they're not canon!

 

[{ Emilia }]

I want to see Klingon nerd internet forums.

 

[cultcross]

Forums are known as HONOURABLE BATTLEFIELDS, threads as GLORIOUS SKIRMISHES.


"WHY WOULD YOU REDESIGN THE LOOK OF HUMANS AGAIN, CHANGE FOR CHANGES SAKE ANGERS NERDWARRIOR13, SON OF GRAKNAR, AND HE WILL HAVE HIS REVENGE!"

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I want to see Klingon nerd internet forums.

"Post proof or I will have to kill you!"

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

ROFLDMEWMB!*

*Rolling On The Floor Disembowling My Enemies With My Batleth

 

[{ Emilia }]

In fact I'd love to be a moderator on a Klingon nerd internet forum:

1) I bet bans and infractions are a lot more fun there.
2) Bonz better be careful. We know how promotions work in the Klingon part of the universe.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

You'd have to deal with all the LOLTarg memes...

 

[CommanderRaytas]

But they made a point of having a conversation about how the courtroom was an HONOURABLE BATTLEFIELD!!!

Exactly. That's what I meant. HYPERBOLE IS HONOURABLE! RAWWWWRG!