Cardassians or Klingons?

[CommanderRaytas]

That's exactly it! It would have been great if they had shown us more than just the military. A real culture, not just stereotypes.

That would have helped, definitely. I would have liked that.

 

[Red Ranger]

What about the Klingon lawyer from DS9? He didn't dress in a warrior outfit and he was a calm, cool in control fellow.

Sure he wasn't exactly like Martok or Worf (or even Gowron), but even that one had that harsh, overbearing demeanour "typical" of Klingons. It's not just typical. EVERY (TNG) Klingon behaves like that. A discreet, elegant, perhaps quieter person would be a nice change.

Cardassians are portrayed as real personalities. If you compare Garak, Dukat and Damar, they don't even remotely have the same personality. They are completely unique, fleshed-out personalities that behave differently from each other, react differently and don't even have the same priorities.

That's why I think Klingons are annoying. They're too predictable. Cardassians are not. But that's just my opinion.

We could also look at it from a point where we are just really only seeing their military branch. We never really get to see the civilian side of Klingons. Perhaps the warrior class acts the way you see them, but the civilian side could be different.

As I recall, they did show a few Klingon civilians. In Sins of the Father, we saw Worf's nurse, Kahlest, who helped Picard out by stabbing one of the Klingon assasins Duras sent after him in the back. And wasn't Grilka in the DSN ep, The House of Quark, not in the military? She and Kahlest were concerned with honor, but also with social standing. -- RR