Tatooed female on Qo'noS

[Timo]

1) The spotted Kriosians were engaged in a centuries-long war, and were about to end it. Yet the Klingon-governed Kriosians had just initiated a rebellion.
2) The spotted Kriosians were openly using Feds as mediators. Klingons suspected the Feds of meddling with the rebels, a charge Picard hotly disputed.
3) There are no Klingons in "Perfect Mate". (There are no Kriosians of any color in "Mind's Eye", either, but there wouldn't be, given the plot. Given the plot of "Perfect Mate", there would be lots of Klingons around, including at least Governor Vagh.)

Now, perhaps the Klingons were enslaving a bunch of people from the ubiquitous spotted species on their colony, the place (system and planet) named Krios. But this is not the same place as the Krios (system and planet) that is having an interstellar war with Valt Minor without any Klingon interference.

Indeed, why would a Klingon "colony" contain anything but Klingons? Wouldn't a conquest be differently addressed?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[INACTIVERedDwarf]

That is a circumstantial reading of evidence, since we don't know to what war the Kriosians were referring.

It may imply that the Klingons tolerate puppet states fighting wars independently of Klingon direction (i.e. British-controlled Indian states warring with neighbours). The Klingons, a warlike people, might tolerate private war. Or they might try to keep the peace on their colonies and fail to restrain a non-state actor from fighting an insurgency.

Colony does not neccecarily imply Klingon settlement, as India was a colony of Britain, a colonial empire.

It has two meanings:

1. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country.
   "Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China"
   synonyms: territory, possession, holding, dependency, province, dominion, protectorate, satellite (state), settlement, outpost
2. a group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place.
   "the British colony in New York"
   synonyms: population, community

It's funny how that last episode suddenly started faithfully reproducing makeup designs; the Orions looked great.

 

[Kor]

And in yet another case of "Small Universe Syndrome," it turns out that the trill on the Klingon spa treatment table was none other than Emony Dax, just in town to judge a Klingon gymnastics tournament!

Kor

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

^ I would not have a problem with this. Also, a Klingon gymnastics tournament is probably pretty damn cool!

 

[Nerys Myk]

It's funny how that last episode suddenly started faithfully reproducing makeup designs; the Orions looked great.

Ahem, Vulcans.

 

[Tuskin38]

I thought the Andorains were pretty faithful.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Also, a Klingon gymnastics tournament is probably pretty damn cool!

The events lineup:

The Pummel Horse
Parallel Universe Bars
Disruptor Balance Beam
The Vault of Kahless
Drunk on the Floor Exercise
The Unworthy Bars
Rhythmic Bat'leth
Cut to Ribbons
The High Council Bar
The Rings of Praxis

 

[Tosk]

Thumbs up for the pommel/pummel horse gag alone.

 

[chrinFinity]

Indeed, why would a Klingon "colony" contain anything but Klingons?

I dunno, why would a British "colony" contain anything but Britons?

 

[Tim Thomason]

And in yet another case of "Small Universe Syndrome," it turns out that the trill on the Klingon spa treatment table was none other than Emony Dax, just in town to judge a Klingon gymnastics tournament!

Kor

That's been my personal theory from the get-go. Emony gains a fondness for Klingons at this time, something she carries on to later hosts Curzon, Jadzia, and Ezri.

 

[Kor]

Indeed, why would a Klingon "colony" contain anything but Klingons? Wouldn't a conquest be differently addressed?

History is replete with "colonization" of places that already had people living there. A political entity imposing its power and authority over other peoples beyond its own borders is the very definition of colonialism.

I dunno, why would a British "colony" contain anything but Britons?

British Hong Kong, for instance.

Kor

 

[Tim Thomason]

History is replete with "colonization" of places that already had people living there. A political entity imposing its power and authority over other peoples beyond its own borders is the very definition of colonialism.


British Hong Kong, for instance.

Kor

The Krios-Valt dispute can be viewed in a similar way as all the disputes in the Balkans or Eastern Europe following the collapse of the USSR. The Kriosians come out from decades of Klingon rule with revenge on their mind against their ancestral enemy, and the Federation steps in to mediate the dispute.

I mean, I get that we have to invent convoluted ideas here to make sense of it all, but it does seem plausible.

 

[chrinFinity]

I get that we have to invent convoluted ideas here to make sense of it all, but it does seem plausible.

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