Klingon Cannibalism.

[T'Girl]

Once upon a time on DS9, Kor was telling a funny story to Dax. The story involved a great epic campaign fought by Kor, Kang, Koloth and many thousands of Klingon troops against T'Nag's army. In the end the only ones left standing were Kor, Kang and Koloth, Kor ended the story this way;

KOR: "What matters is this, in the end the mountainside was covered with dead so that not a square meter of ground could be seen. We found T'Nag's body by the river, its waters red with blood. Which of us had slain him, no one could say for certain."

"So we cut out his heart and all three of us feasted on it together."

Okay that sounds like cannibalism. The argument could be made that it isn't cannibalism if you're eating a member of a different species. T'Nag does not seem to be a traditional Klingon name. Does actual eating the body/heart of your sentient opponent seem to be within Klingon's observed cultural practices?

They do have their own way of doing things.

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[Deranged Nasat]

They were going to eat the Albino's heart in "Blood Oath", apparently. And in season seven Worf is distressed that Jadzia won't go to sto-vo-kor because she never actually got round to eating the heart of an enemy. So, there are quite a few references. I guess Klingons do sometimes do so - but it seems highly ritualistic, given that it comes up in the context of great victories against single tyrants or hated foes. So I would assume it's not something they do on the drop of a hat, but something that's vowed as part of some specific honour code.

So...ritual cannibalism on occasion does seem a part of their culture. Yummy.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

It seems well within their practices to me, and it doesn't strike me as too surprising, either. I think they wouldn't do it for just anything, which is why we never see Martok kneel over and rip a Jem'Hadar's heart out, but I'd be willing to bet there were plenty of Klingon warriors out there during the war that did things not fit for TV.

 

[Bones2]

Klingons really went downhill post-Gorkon.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

The Klingons became Vikings, unfortunately, and about as laughable as these guys...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el0RFkSPk-o

 

[Nightdiamond]

In a way, I think it makes them seem more vicious than the Jem Hadar, where usually in debates with who's the toughest, a lot of people tend to choose the Jem Hadar.

Even the Jem Hadar do not do anything that vicious or savage, although it seems like more of a ritual than actual eating.

 

[DS9 Gal AZ]

The Klingons became Vikings, unfortunately, and about as laughable as these guys...

The Klingons were definitely modeled after the Viking culture. The image of Sto'vo'kor (Klingon heaven) that has been presented is one of warriors fighting, eating and drinking, singing songs, etc., which sounds exactly like Valhalla (Viking heaven).

 

[Leviathan]

...nah, it's just something they do when the cable goes out.